Does anyone know...? (Cicero quote)

[Robert Vermaat]

I wonder what the ancients would have said about those who rewrite history to fit their agenda?

Oh, the ancients were quite good at this, actually. Maybe better than us moderns.

Absolutely. Whereas we feel an urge for 'history' describing 'what really happened' (even though we already know since Herodotus that that's impossible), the ancients had no qualms about writing down what history 'should have been', because to them their version of it served a specific purpose. This went on throughout history :wink: as we can see during the Middle Ages, when forged history served to support claims of ownership for instance.