#*history

“Believing false things about history never hurt anyone and certainly can’t get anyone killed. It’s fine if we are conditioned to dismiss, disbelieve, and suspect SOCIAL scientists as long as we’re fine with REAL scientists” — a truly worrying number of tumblr users

obsessed with the thought that when giulio was born, almost every major event that even most non-scholars are taught to remember had already occurred by several centuries. caesar, that he perceives as a mythical ancestor, had already been assassinated and deified around 300 years prior giulio's birth. the colosseum had been built almost 200 years before; the destruction of pompeii, too, happened around that date. it's funny because giulio went on, clinging to a history that he never lived if not through annals and books, because by the time he was born the empire was already heading towards its twilight. some well-intentioned guy tells him "oh i love ancient rome hehe caesar" and giulio is like 😬 yeah definitely