Sunday, June 17th, 2007
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 16,253
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Re: Europe may have had human sacrificies
Romans did use propaganda for which they overstated facts. But that doesn't mean that they did not happen. I think that researchers of Roman history have developed a skill to contrast ancient texts and identify how much on a statement was myth and how much was reality over which that myth was built up.
The Official Truth: Propaganda in the Roman Empire
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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