04-05-2016, 05:04 AM
DNA to find Hannibal's route through the Alps
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04-05-2016, 11:45 AM
The date of the Original article is March 18. Not April 1. Hmmmmm
I'm not fond of conclusions such as "So it may be that many of Livy’s accounts are more fictional than factual" based on a stash of horse manure.
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR FECTIO Late Romans THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST (Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
04-05-2016, 12:55 PM
I'm taking the fifth amendment....I'm saying nothing.
04-05-2016, 10:17 PM
Sounds like a pile of horseshit to me.
Evidently, the author (Chis Allen) went back in time to interview one of the horses in Hannibal's entourage. And obviously the elephants took a different route. No elephant pucky. These conclusions were drawn on the assumption that Hannibal's army was the only historical entity to ride horses through the Alpine passes. Romano-Italian hunting parties evidently walked through the pass or they used donkeys... which leave smaller clusters of poo... not so detectible. And micro-biology is certainly a good reason to toss out Livy's history. While we're at it, let's dump Herodotus, Tacitus, Pliny, and Ammianus... all those "fantasy" writers.
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians Author of: The Demon's Door Bolt (2011) Forging the Blade (2012) "It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!" Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb |
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