I love things like this that put the lie to “it was a different time back then”. The powerful have always been brutal self-serving liars and people have always known that.
So much of our primary source material is just the preserved lies of the powerful.
So much of our primary source material is just the preserved lies of the powerful
I try to remember this when I read about history. A lot of the accounts from Rome are from people with their own bias and now they get taken as facts. Also that Dr that was shunned by his fellow doctors and went to an insane asylum. The crime of this doctor? Telling his peers to wash their hands before delivery a baby.
I love things like this that put the lie to “it was a different time back then”. The powerful have always been brutal self-serving liars and people have always known that.
So much of our primary source material is just the preserved lies of the powerful.
I try to remember this when I read about history. A lot of the accounts from Rome are from people with their own bias and now they get taken as facts. Also that Dr that was shunned by his fellow doctors and went to an insane asylum. The crime of this doctor? Telling his peers to wash their hands before delivery a baby.