So yeah, there's apparently this TikTok'er who has gone viral stating that Rome did not actually exist - what we see is actually a bunch of Greek architecture, and everything we know bout Rome was made up and constructed by the Spanish Inquisition.
https://www.insider.com/history-anth...-viral-2021-12
As one might expect, there's a lot of backlash to this, and said TikToker is exceptionally patronizing and hostile in an effort to cover the contradictory bits of her theory. She often just openly insulting people who studied or majored in classics.
The jist of her theory involves:
1) There are no primary documents and the few there are are actually in 'Greek' by her declaration where she literally reverses another classic language to fit her idea. Apparently the Spanish Inquisition was able to bury faked Roman letters in Northern England later discovery, for example.
2) There isn't enough weathering of various statues to her liking --- usually pointing statues that were buried until the 20th century, or in one case using a 2007 carving of the Res Gestea Divi Augusti on a new musuem as an example of insufficient weathering (while claiming the picture she used was on another structure).
3) Claiming the Latin language (or as she constantly refers to it "Roman") was invented somewhere around 1500 AD... by the Spanish Inquisition.
4) Claiming architecture details are selectively Greek when it suits her needs such as claiming that since a certain Roman ruin used a certain type of column it must actually be Greek- even though there are plenty of examples of Roman sites using those kinds of columns.
5) Often just claiming stuff is the opposite of what is there and claiming those who cannot see it are blind, brainwashed idiots.
There have been several videos on both TikTok and Youtube debunking her. Most of the youtube ones make a major point of noting that they understand she probably shouldn't be getting any more attention but are concerned that this might run away from them if they ignore it too much - after all this is how present Flat-Earther's got rolling.
One of the better debunkings is the Lady of the Library
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As one might expect, any holes in her argument are covered with more ignorance and arrogance.
ETA: Oh right, forgot that she also says there's no evidence Vesuvius erupted in 79CE.
https://www.insider.com/history-anth...-viral-2021-12
As one might expect, there's a lot of backlash to this, and said TikToker is exceptionally patronizing and hostile in an effort to cover the contradictory bits of her theory. She often just openly insulting people who studied or majored in classics.
The jist of her theory involves:
1) There are no primary documents and the few there are are actually in 'Greek' by her declaration where she literally reverses another classic language to fit her idea. Apparently the Spanish Inquisition was able to bury faked Roman letters in Northern England later discovery, for example.
2) There isn't enough weathering of various statues to her liking --- usually pointing statues that were buried until the 20th century, or in one case using a 2007 carving of the Res Gestea Divi Augusti on a new musuem as an example of insufficient weathering (while claiming the picture she used was on another structure).
3) Claiming the Latin language (or as she constantly refers to it "Roman") was invented somewhere around 1500 AD... by the Spanish Inquisition.
4) Claiming architecture details are selectively Greek when it suits her needs such as claiming that since a certain Roman ruin used a certain type of column it must actually be Greek- even though there are plenty of examples of Roman sites using those kinds of columns.
5) Often just claiming stuff is the opposite of what is there and claiming those who cannot see it are blind, brainwashed idiots.
There have been several videos on both TikTok and Youtube debunking her. Most of the youtube ones make a major point of noting that they understand she probably shouldn't be getting any more attention but are concerned that this might run away from them if they ignore it too much - after all this is how present Flat-Earther's got rolling.
One of the better debunkings is the Lady of the Library
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As one might expect, any holes in her argument are covered with more ignorance and arrogance.
ETA: Oh right, forgot that she also says there's no evidence Vesuvius erupted in 79CE.
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