Claims
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Hopefully you’ve already read the Roman side of Christmas (see the previous post), which has some scholarship behind it … the Greek side, however, strikes me as a bit wanting and rather rambling. As often, it hails from the Greek Reporter, which seems to let its minimal editing down even more during holiday times: Christmas…
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While wading through my backlog the other day (which is huge) it occurred to me that I could start giving ‘points’ to articles cluttering my box making skeptical claims. To do so, of course, I would need some sort of metre stick of credulity, and came up with the following list of items which set…
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Ten years almost to the day, we get another claim about Roman origins of bocce … from a WWAY3 feature: The Romans first played the game around 300 BC with coconuts they brought back from Africa. Now it’s an age-friendly sport with a lot to offer. via: Players say bocce is a game for all…
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In a word, no, but that doesn’t stop the Epoch Times for wasting electrons on a nutty theory … here are just enough exerpts to smack your gob: The year 1492 is one of history’s most famous dates, when America was discovered by Europeans. However that “New World” may have been already known to the…
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We’ll preface this by noting it’s written by the same author who spread the misinformation about Amphipolis for the Greek Reporter: In antiquity when the Ancient Greeks and Romans referred to the Chinese they used to call them by the Latin name Sinae, which the Chinese have kept until today (China). The greatest proof is…
rogue classicism 