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Historians Admit To Inventing Ancient Greeks
Posted on 9/28/15 at 1:29 pm
Posted on 9/28/15 at 1:29 pm
Article
usually onion articles are a good headline and a boring, repetitive bit to read but this is one of the best i've read in a long time
lots of subtle jabs in there
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"Honestly, we never meant for things to go this far," said Professor Gene Haddlebury, who has offered to resign his position as chair of Hellenic Studies at Georgetown University. "We were young and trying to advance our careers, so we just started making things up: Homer, Aristotle, Socrates, Hippocrates, the lever and fulcrum, rhetoric, ethics, all the different kinds of columns—everything."
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"One night someone made a joke about just taking all these ideas, lumping them together, and saying the Greeks had done it all 2,000 years ago," Haddlebury said. "One thing led to another, and before you know it, we're coming up with everything from the golden ratio to the Iliad."
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Emily Nguyen-Whiteman, one of the young academics who "pulled a month's worth of all-nighters" working on the project, explained that the whole of ancient Greek architecture was based on buildings in Washington, D.C., including a bank across the street from the coffee shop where they met to "bat around ideas about mythology or whatever."
"We picked Greece because we figured nobody would ever go there to check it out," Nguyen-Whiteman said. "Have you ever seen the place? It's a dump. It's like an abandoned gravel pit infested with cats."
usually onion articles are a good headline and a boring, repetitive bit to read but this is one of the best i've read in a long time
lots of subtle jabs in there
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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. But others they claimed as their own.
"Geometry? That was all Kevin," said Haddlebury, referring to former graduate student Kevin Davenport. "Man, that kid was on fire in those days. They teach Davenportian geometry in high schools now, though of course they call it Euclidean."
This post was edited on 9/28/15 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 9/28/15 at 1:31 pm to SlowFlowPro
But did they make up the hero Testicles? Asking for a friend.
Posted on 9/28/15 at 1:32 pm to SlowFlowPro
Put Onion in the title so no one has to click on it
Posted on 9/28/15 at 1:38 pm to SlowFlowPro
This is plagiarised from something the Department of Classics at Liverpool put out a few years ago.
Posted on 9/28/15 at 1:39 pm to SlowFlowPro
Sadly, Brian Williams is extremely concerned about this story.
Posted on 9/28/15 at 1:41 pm to SlowFlowPro
historians DID make up some stuff, and moreover, missed a lot.
""Lies my teacher told""
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""Lies my teacher told""
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Posted on 9/28/15 at 1:42 pm to Ace Midnight
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Sadly, Brian Williams is extremely concerned about this story.
Posted on 9/28/15 at 1:45 pm to TN Bhoy
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This is plagiarised from something the Department of Classics at Liverpool put out a few years ago.
that explains why it seems better written than your typical onion article
Posted on 9/28/15 at 1:52 pm to SlowFlowPro
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"Geometry? That was all Kevin," said Haddlebury, referring to former graduate student Kevin Davenport. "Man, that kid was on fire in those days. They teach Davenportian geometry in high schools now, though of course they call it Euclidean."
Posted on 9/28/15 at 1:56 pm to SlowFlowPro
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It's a dump. It's like an abandoned gravel pit infested with cats."
It definitely is dumpy but I'd say it has more wild dogs than any thing.
We had one hang out with us all night we named Rufus. He left us for all his fellow stray friends at the McDonalds at Syntagma Square.
I tried a "McFarm" I assume it was made from lamb, but whatever you do in Greece, don't ask questions.
This post was edited on 9/28/15 at 1:58 pm
Posted on 9/28/15 at 2:00 pm to SlowFlowPro
That Davenport was something I tell you.
Posted on 9/28/15 at 2:06 pm to SlowFlowPro
That article sounds like complete bullshite. There are plenty of other sources that confirm the ancient Greeks' accomplishments.
Posted on 9/28/15 at 2:09 pm to SlowFlowPro
incase anyone is as curious as I am: SlowFlowPro has been here for 11.83 years at 312406 posts. That's 26,407 posts per year. That's 2,200 posts per month. That's 73.35 posts per day. That's 3.05 posts per hour...for almost 12 years. Holy hell you really like TD
Posted on 9/28/15 at 2:12 pm to TN Bhoy
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This is plagiarised from something the Department of Classics at Liverpool put out a few years ago.
Wasn't this Onion Article from 2010? Few > 5?
Posted on 9/28/15 at 2:13 pm to SlowFlowPro
This must have been hilarious (having concocted this when high, free thinking all the possibilities, and laughing nonstop).
In the written word, not so much.
In the written word, not so much.
This post was edited on 9/28/15 at 2:19 pm
Posted on 9/28/15 at 2:16 pm to TheAlmightySmash
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incase anyone is as curious as I am: SlowFlowPro has been here for 11.83 years at 312406 posts. That's 26,407 posts per year. That's 2,200 posts per month. That's 73.35 posts per day. That's 3.05 posts per hour...for almost 12 years. Holy hell you really like TD
I'm sure he's never heard this before.
But I can definitely see how he does it. If I get interested in a conversation, I can crank out about 30 posts an hour. If I had a job that let me waste time on the internet whenever I wanted, I could easily hit that many posts in twelve years.
Posted on 9/28/15 at 2:16 pm to Lou Pai
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That article sounds like complete bullshite. There are plenty of other sources that confirm the ancient Greeks' accomplishments.
How the frick do you know, Mr Smarty Pants? Were you there? Sounds like more phony balogna bullshite to me.
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