Historians Admit To Inventing Ancient Greeks

[Math Is Hard]

Aha! I knew it!

http://www.theonion.com/articles/historians-admit-to-inventing-ancient-greeks,18209/

WASHINGTON—A group of leading historians held a press conference Monday at the National Geographic Society to announce they had "entirely fabricated" ancient Greece, a culture long thought to be the intellectual basis of Western civilization.

The group acknowledged that the idea of a sophisticated, flourishing society existing in Greece more than two millennia ago was a complete fiction created by a team of some two dozen historians, anthropologists, and classicists who worked nonstop between 1971 and 1974 to forge "Greek" documents and artifacts.

"Honestly, we never meant for things to go this far," said Professor Gene Haddlebury, who has offered to resign his position as chair of Hellenic Studies at Georgetown University. "We were young and trying to advance our careers, so we just started making things up: Homer, Aristotle, Socrates, Hippocrates, the lever and fulcrum, rhetoric, ethics, all the different kinds of columns—everything."

 

[Borek]

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=435961

 

[Evo]

At least MIH new it was a joke. :tongue2:

 

[Ivan Seeking]

What's next, the Greek Theater is really French?

 

[BobG]

At least MIH new it was a joke. :tongue2:

And a gnu joke, at that!

Does that mean Jimmy the Greek doesn't exist?

 

[turbo]

What's next, the Greek Theater is really French?

Nooo! Not Aristophanes! He was real! Nobody could make up those plays.

 

[turbo]

At least MIH new it was a joke. :tongue2:

I didn't no that. :tongue:

 

[G037H3]

stupid thing to joke about, especially when almost no one knows the history of the people that they rely on to be as comfortable as they are today

:/

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Nooo! Not Aristophanes! He was real! Nobody could make up those plays.

I meant THE Greek Theatre, but that too.

 

[Math Is Hard]

So when Bill and Ted went to visit Socrates, was that all faked?

 

[turbo]

So when Bill and Ted went to visit Socrates, was that all faked?

I was pretty skeptical. The Greeks were very advanced, but might not have had 24-bit color video cameras to record the event. 16-bit, maybe...

 

[Borek]

I was pretty skeptical. The Greeks were very advanced, but might not have had 24-bit color video cameras to record the event. 16-bit, maybe...

Judging from the way they depicted everything on their vases, it was 1 bit at most.

 

[turbo]

Judging from the way they depicted everything on their vases, it was 1 bit at most.

1-bit printing, maybe. Not all technologies proceed at the same rate.

 

[arildno]

There is still that batch of so-called historians&intellectuals busily at work inventing something they call The Religion of Peace and the multicultural paradise Andalucia...

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I was discussing this with my old frat brothers from Iota Nu Beta. We agreed that this hoax was a herculean effort. But now that it has been exposed, there will be repercussions of olympic proportions as lawyers who have lived a spartan existence will open a pandora's box of law suits, leading to a cornucopia of settlements.

 

[G037H3]

There is still that batch of so-called historians&intellectuals busily at work inventing something they call The Religion of Peace and the multicultural paradise Andalucia...

lol.

 

[Evo]

I was discussing this with my old frat brothers from Iota Nu Beta. We agreed that this hoax was a herculean effort. But now that it has been exposed, there will be repercussions of olympic proportions as lawyers who have lived a spartan existence will open a pandora's box of law suits, leading to a cornucopia of settlements.

<wipes off monitor>

 

[edward]

AH NUTS I thought that it said Ancient Geeks

 

[Ivan Seeking]

So when Bill and Ted went to visit Socrates, was that all faked?

Obviously! Everyone knows that all real space-time phone booths are blue police boxes.

Fake

Real
[PLAIN]http://www.coated.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/tardis-ice-bucket.jpg

 

[lisab]

AH NUTS I thought that it said Ancient Geeks

No, those were the guys who would get all worked up waiting for the next version of abacus.

 

[collinsmark]

In defense of anyone not realizing the satire, once a legit newspaper in China republished an article from The Onion, not getting the humor.

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/06/53048"

Here's the original The Onion article. It's hilarious.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/congress-threatens-to-leave-dc-unless-new-capitol,98/"

 

[Gokul43201]

In defense of anyone not realizing the satire, once a legit newspaper in China republished an article from The Onion, not getting the humor.

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/06/53048"

Here's the original The Onion article. It's hilarious.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/congress-threatens-to-leave-dc-unless-new-capitol,98/"

Understandable, coming from a country where you might go straight to jail for doing what the Onion does.