| Samus Aran said: Everything about the future is a prediction, you realize that the future hasn't happened yet do you? ;) You do realize that Romans used the past to look for ways to change their future? If you can't even understand one of the most basic thoughts in Roman thinking than I'm not sure why I'm having this discussion. Ancient Roman historians wrote pragmatic histories in order to benefit future statesmen (i.e how not to rule or how to rule by giving past examples). Suetonius is probably the biggest example of that. Tacitus wasn't an objective historian, his works served a moral function. Roman historians never made any pretenses about being objective, that was not the aim. As for Caesar's work, it's self-promotion and a way to justify his (illegal) actions in Gaul. It served a much more important function than telling an objective story of the past. |
For all your meandering you're still wrong.
5-10 years isn't a short time, neither to gamers nor historians.
But hey, keep it up and i'll ban both of us for derailing.
