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r4pt0r_SPQR t1_iuzg86o wrote

Reply to comment by Far_Sided in TIL that the Persian King Xerxes was so enraged after a storm destroyed his bridges that he ordered the sea be given 300 whiplashes, and branded it with red-hot irons as the soldiers shouted at the water by LethalPoopstain

Seutonius was the Roman TMZ. Dude was 90% gossip and rumor.

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Far_Sided t1_iv2ro3o wrote

LOL, SO true. But at least he's A source. Sadly, we don't have Claudius' history of the Julii but we think maybe Seutonius drew from it? Some modicum of truth is better than a vacuum.

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r4pt0r_SPQR t1_iv2svsu wrote

I continue to hold out hope that some of the Herculaneum scrolls can be read with future tech, and that some of them may have more lost history.

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