It's actually hilarious how quickly and immediately things fell apart for him
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Stalin probably wouldn’t trust this man to be alone within 50 miles from his daughter.
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I feel like the Greeks during WWII doesn’t get talked about nearly as much as they deserve, they were crazy as hell
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Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome be like
Funny how Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome get paired up and often get mistaken for one another ("Classical Antiquity", "Greco Roman World") when the actual historical relationship was like this:
Phase 1: Mild contempt
Greeks saw early Rome as a rough, uncultured backwater with no refinement.
Romans saw Greeks as pretentious intellectuals who talked too much and bathed too often.
Phase 2: Open hostility
They fought wars. The Romans destroyed Corinth. Greek city states resented Roman interference. Romans distrusted Greek mercenaries, philosophers, and doctors (Cato the Elder wanted them all gone).
Phase 3: Rome conquers Greece
And then Rome turned around and said:
“Ok never mind, they’re geniuses. Let’s steal everything.”
Art, literature, mythology, education, architecture, gods were all imported, translated, and Roman branded.
Greeks became the tutors, scholars, and cultural elite of the empire. Roman aristocrats competed over who could be the most “Greek.”
Phase 4: Greeks reclaim the brand
After the Western Roman Empire fell, the Eastern (Byzantine) Romans who were Greek in language and culture said:
“We are Rome now.”
And for a thousand years, the Greek speaking Byzantines insisted they were Romans, calling themselves Rhomaioi.
It's like being enemies to friends to just all of a sudden claiming to be your dead friend.
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Funny how Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome get paired up and often get mistaken for one another ("Classical Antiquity", "Greco Roman World") when the actual historical relationship was like this:
Phase 1: Mild contempt
Greeks saw early Rome as a rough, uncultured backwater with no refinement.
Romans saw Greeks as pretentious intellectuals who talked too much and bathed too often.
Phase 2: Open hostility
They fought wars. The Romans destroyed Corinth. Greek city states resented Roman interference. Romans distrusted Greek mercenaries, philosophers, and doctors (Cato the Elder wanted them all gone).
Phase 3: Rome conquers Greece
And then Rome turned around and said:
“Ok never mind, they’re geniuses. Let’s steal everything.”
Art, literature, mythology, education, architecture, gods were all imported, translated, and Roman branded.
Greeks became the tutors, scholars, and cultural elite of the empire. Roman aristocrats competed over who could be the most “Greek.”
Phase 4: Greeks reclaim the brand
After the Western Roman Empire fell, the Eastern (Byzantine) Romans who were Greek in language and culture said:
“We are Rome now.”
And for a thousand years, the Greek speaking Byzantines insisted they were Romans, calling themselves Rhomaioi.
It's like being enemies to friends to just all of a sudden claiming to be your dead friend.
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While the whole "Falling out with the Catholic Church over the heliocentric model of the Solar System" incident is true, painting the incident as an eternal rivalry between Galileo and the Pope that had existed since day one would also be inaccurate
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Hannibal having the last laugh against the Romans is probably the most satisfying thing ever
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Imagine being so crazy Big H has a life size portrait of you in his office
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