Historians Admit to Inventing Ancient Greeks

[All-American]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/his...-greeks,18209/

Bad news for the classicists.

[Katy Lied]

s. S.

[ERCougar]

I don't know if I'm tired or I've been hanging around Solon too much lately, but this was pretty funny. A few gems:

"One night someone made a joke about just taking all these ideas, lumping them together, and saying the Greeks had done it all 2,000 years ago," Haddlebury said. "One thing led to another, and before you know it, we're coming up with everything from the golden ratio to the Iliad."
"That was a bitch to write, by the way,"

the whole of ancient Greek architecture was based on buildings in Washington, D.C., including a bank across the street from the coffee shop where they met to "bat around ideas about mythology or whatever."

"We picked Greece because we figured nobody would ever go there to check it out," Nguyen-Whiteman said. "Have you ever seen the place? It's a dump. It's like an abandoned gravel pit infested with cats." She added, "Inevitably, though, people started looking around for some of this 'ancient' stuff, and next thing I know I'm stuck in Athens all summer building a goddamn Parthenon just to cover our tracks."

Sources confirmed that long hours and lack of sleep took their toll on Davenport, and after the lukewarm reception of his work on homoeroticism in Spartan military, he left the group.

[Solon]

I don't know if I'm tired or I've been hanging around Solon too much lately, but this was pretty funny. A few gems:

Too funny.

[Babs]

s. S.

He doesn't have a jpg?