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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2019-10-16 04:41 pm

Triple-check my persona

[personal profile] spatch, reading a tweet from the White House: "'The United States and Italy are bound together by a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years to Ancient Rome.'"

Me, a classicist: "Oh! That'd be the fascism!"
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2019-10-17 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
The US really is that desperate to have an actual history that isn't native American then?

We have the third largest Roman town in Roman Britain, Viriconium/Wroxeter- Housman's Uricon- five miles away...............
Edited 2019-10-17 14:58 (UTC)