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  • "Rome Didn't Fall When You Think It Did. Here's Why That Fabricated His

    From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 6 20:49:33 2021
    https://time.com/6101964/fabricated-fall-rome-lessons-history/

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  • From SolomonW@21:1/5 to gggg gggg on Thu Oct 7 16:34:49 2021
    On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 20:49:33 -0700 (PDT), gggg gggg wrote:

    https://time.com/6101964/fabricated-fall-rome-lessons-history/

    It is a literary thing. In September of 476 AD, Western Roman emperor
    Romulus Augustus was forced to resign his office. An early Romulus was considered the founder of Rome.

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  • From reader@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 8 21:14:38 2021
    https://time.com/6101964/fabricated-fall-rome-lessons-history/

    It is a literary thing. In September of 476 AD, Western Roman emperor
    Romulus Augustus was forced to resign his office. An early Romulus was >considered the founder of Rome.

    That is only part of the story. The eastern part of the empire with the cappital at Constantinople and a line of roman emperors persisted until the 15th century. They considered themselves fully roman.

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  • From SolomonW@21:1/5 to reader on Sat Oct 9 22:14:19 2021
    On 08 Oct 2021 21:14:38 GMT, reader wrote:

    https://time.com/6101964/fabricated-fall-rome-lessons-history/

    It is a literary thing. In September of 476 AD, Western Roman emperor >>Romulus Augustus was forced to resign his office. An early Romulus was >>considered the founder of Rome.

    That is only part of the story. The eastern part of the empire with the cappital at Constantinople and a line of roman emperors persisted until the 15th century. They considered themselves fully roman.

    In the 1800s, when Greece was expanding into the islands, the locals made
    it quite clear that they were not Greeks but Romans.

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  • From Weland@21:1/5 to SolomonW on Sun Oct 10 16:29:38 2021
    On Thursday, October 7, 2021 at 12:34:49 AM UTC-5, SolomonW wrote:
    On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 20:49:33 -0700 (PDT), gggg gggg wrote:

    https://time.com/6101964/fabricated-fall-rome-lessons-history/

    It is a literary thing. In September of 476 AD, Western Roman emperor
    Romulus Augustus was forced to resign his office. An early Romulus was considered the founder of Rome.

    A literary thing completely made up by Gibbon in the late 18th century. Has nothing to do with late Roman history.

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