09-03-2008, 08:58 AM
Oh Jona,
Id like to take you up on the idea that in 'How to Write History' Lucian invented the historians of Lucius Verus' Parthian War .. His advice on the type of person the historian should be is, IMHO, spot on! but this is not he place!
Speaking of Anticipating modern sci fi - the opera Le Cheval de Bronze by Auber (1837) has a bronze horse which transports people to Venus and back!
Anywhoo, :roll:
Cheers
Murray
Id like to take you up on the idea that in 'How to Write History' Lucian invented the historians of Lucius Verus' Parthian War .. His advice on the type of person the historian should be is, IMHO, spot on! but this is not he place!
Speaking of Anticipating modern sci fi - the opera Le Cheval de Bronze by Auber (1837) has a bronze horse which transports people to Venus and back!
Anywhoo, :roll:
Cheers
Murray
Murray K Dahm
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\'\'\'\'No matter how many you kill, you cannot kill your successor\'\'\'\' - Seneca to Nero - Dio 62
\'\'\'\'There is no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will\'\'\'\' - Ammianus Marcellinus 27.7.9
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\'\'\'\'No matter how many you kill, you cannot kill your successor\'\'\'\' - Seneca to Nero - Dio 62
\'\'\'\'There is no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will\'\'\'\' - Ammianus Marcellinus 27.7.9
