Posted on 08/10/2024 8:14:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A TikTok contrarian once made waves with a bold claim that the Roman Empire wasn't real—something she later tried to walk back by saying her original video was just a "metaphor." But her timelines and writings are full of strong claims about ancient Rome, with just enough factual evidence that she might seem credible.
To be clear, the Roman Empire was real, and acknowledging the evidence and impact of that period of rule is vital to the histories of people the ancient Romans subjugated over a millennium...
In one now-deleted video, writer Donna Dickens—who goes by @momllennial_ and @momllennial_returns on TikTok, and @MildlyAmused before she was suspended from Twitter—shows a very famous poem fragment variably known as the Gallus fragment, the Gallus papyrus, or the Qasr Ibrim papyrus. Gallus is the poet whose work is shown on the fragment, while Qasr Ibrim is the archaeological dig where the fragment was unearthed in modern-day southern Egypt...
In her video, Dickens insists: "Dude, that's Greek. Are y'all blind? Just, like, all of you?" Dickens' video has been deleted, but her claim, like the papyrus, survives on. Maxwell Paule, a Roman classicist who teaches ancient and classical studies at Earlham College in Indiana, included it in a response video on his TikTok. "This is the Qasr Ibrim papyrus, and it's really famous, and it's definitely written in Latin. But you can read that yourself," Paule explains in the video. "'Maxima romanae': it doesn't get more Latin than that."
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Oh Lord.
Whoops. Nan-noo, nan-noo. Wait...
Ha! ST:TOG? ST:TOS! ;^)
MATH IS HARD
I was in an alternate timeline (see, “Man in the High Castle). Thanks for the links. I think I’ll pass on VADIS as I am allergic to gnosticism.
I tried the miniseries “Man in the High Castle” and couldn’t take it.
My first experience with PKD was “Our Friends from Frolix 8”, oddly it was in the hometown library, circa 1971. My sci-fi reading older sister had never heard of him and read it after I did, I think I just renewed it so she could.
He had quite a few things to say about that at least year ago.
I largely avoid fiction, but once in a while I’ll read something of his. His very short short story, “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” is claimed to be the basis for the “Total Recall” movie, movies (I’ve never seen the remake), but it’s actually amusing and has that deep paranoid feel that PKD’s stuff has. I think it’s three pages long.
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