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[URL]http://fascinatinghistory.blogspot.com/2005/04/tiberius.html[/URL]
I'm biased being as how she's put one of my essays up, but this is a dashed fine blog for anyone with an interest in history.
I'm biased being as how she's put one of my essays up, but this is a dashed fine blog for anyone with an interest in history.
I was hopeing for some Newman and Baddiel.
That was an interesting read. My brother did classics at uni but I haven't read much classical except for Herodotus - and a few other Greek sources that touch on my favourite brand of history, African. Don't think I'd dare write an essay without 400 footnotes though. The sort of crap I have to write (on East Asia mind) is on this site: [URL]http://www.kernel.dsl.pipex.com/eastasia.htm[/URL] Mine are the totally amazing ones. I'm trying to promote inter-uni plagiarism: Sheepy, you should join in.
I would write my Uni essays like it but those old historian boys might have a heart attack.
" This Pope was a right gobshite... "
" This Pope was a right gobshite... "
Hehe.
I thought her reply was interesting, how she liked it because it was "real" rather than stating the facts. An opinionated twist on it all.
It does make it kind of confusing because you can't be sure where the facts and opinions merge, but it makes the facts worth knowing...
Before if someone had listed the facts (the way historians do) then I reckon I'd've fallen asleep. Now you have a reason to be interested...
More people should write these sorts of takes on history. :-)
I thought her reply was interesting, how she liked it because it was "real" rather than stating the facts. An opinionated twist on it all.
It does make it kind of confusing because you can't be sure where the facts and opinions merge, but it makes the facts worth knowing...
Before if someone had listed the facts (the way historians do) then I reckon I'd've fallen asleep. Now you have a reason to be interested...
More people should write these sorts of takes on history. :-)
That was quite entertaining, Light. "How d'you like THEM apples, mofo?" was really my favourite line.
" That said, his paranoia was still ever present; a fisherman surprised him on Caprii with a huge fish that he had caught and wanted to present to the Emperor. Tiberius had him beaten with it (inspiration for Monty Python's 'Fish Dance'?), jabbed and poked with crab claws, then threw him off a cliff. All in all, he was not a man to get on the wrong side of. "
Ahhhhh, that was him.
Also, the fish had hard scales and he striped off all the fisherman's skin with it and threw salt water all over him. I feel more sorry for him though.
Ironically, reading this has distracted me from my own history work.
Ahhhhh, that was him.
Also, the fish had hard scales and he striped off all the fisherman's skin with it and threw salt water all over him. I feel more sorry for him though.
Ironically, reading this has distracted me from my own history work.
Excellent.
"I have here your book, History of the Crimeon War. Oh poo, poo, it smells of poo!"
"That's because it's been in your Mum's bra"
"That's because it's been in your Mum's bra"
Heh, Roman history kicks ass.
I guess you get to go back far enough that only the interesting bits have survived.
I guess you get to go back far enough that only the interesting bits have survived.
[URL]http://fascinatinghistory.blogspot.com/2005/04/tiberius.html[/URL]
I'm biased being as how she's put one of my essays up, but this is a dashed fine blog for anyone with an interest in history.
I'm biased being as how she's put one of my essays up, but this is a dashed fine blog for anyone with an interest in history.