We\'ve been unmasked

[Gaius Decius Aquilius]

OK.
Enough of all this. I am taking a pre-requsite Art History class. (Ancient Art.) Take this to lean the TRUTH!

Here is what I have learned so far:
a.) Hapshepsut was the first Feminist.
b.) Greek civilization was an invention of English historians before WW II.
c.) The Holy Roman Empire was started by Constanine somewhere between 350 and 380 B.C.
d.) Christains and Jews were persecuted by the Romans who smashed all their statues. (See above dates)
e.) Helenistic civilization was named after Helen of Troy.
f.) Christians lived in the catacombs and disguised their art to not look like Christian art so the Romans wouldn't know what it was. That is how you can identify it. (I presume also so the Romans would not smash it.)

...and if you think I am making this up...

Ralph

[Jona Lendering]

...and if you think I am making this up...

Completely credible; academics who have to talk about subjects outside their direct specialism are a more important cause of misunderstanding than the more outrageous examples of pseudoscholarship. Academic mistakes are also harder to refute, because an academic has titles like doctor or professor, which give some weight to their mistakes. This is comparable to the "Stephen Hawking Effect": if a famous professor writes a mediocre book, it will be praised more highly than a good book by a science journalist. (more)

[M. Demetrius]

Famous scientists and scholars agree with you, Jona. :wink:

[Forty-One]

I guess that's it. Scrap the Greek section and put all so-called 'Greek' inventions where they belong - with the Romans. Because I don't buy for one second that the 'scholars' invented all that. :mrgreen:

As it says in the report:

"Historians told reporters that some of the so-called Greek ideas were in fact borrowed from the Romans, stripped to their fundamentals, and then attributed to fictional Greek predecessors."

Great! This means I can stop struggling with trying to learn Greek now! Silly language, anyway. All those squiggles instead of proper letters...