There was an ancient Greek called Sotades of Maronea, who was by all accounts a magnificent poet and is credited with the invention of the palindrome.
He also had a penchant for writing absolute filth, and wrote a poem about Ptolemy II's marriage (to his own sister) that was so rude that Sotades was sealed into a lead casket and thrown in the sea.
That's a heavy sentence for some ribald poetry. Mind you, with a line that translates as "You're sticking your prick in an unholy hole", I can understand why Ptolemy II got a bit salty about it.
I remember reading about once documented case where one small time royal in Africa at some point, to avoid capture, cut off the face of a dead man and tried to pass himself off as someone else. Full Hannibal Lecter. We only know about it because it didn't work, and he was immediately captured.
Thank the gods I didn't have to see the word fuck I don't know what I would have done if this meme had had swear words in it, my mom would have grounded me for reading it.
Can anyone point me at a good place to read about ancient beef? I just find it so fascinating when two people's hatred for each other outlives themselves. Doesn't have to be ancient really, I'd settle for anything pre-20th century.
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thank heavens that 21x9 bar of white noise was there or I might've become briefly aware of the concept of human mortality.
This makes me wonder if historians thousands of years from now will know who Harambe was
Thank you for censoring the bad words, I don't know what I would have done otherwise.
I could guess some of them and had to have a lie down.
Between the word fucking being censored and the lack of capital letters, what is wrong with the Internet?
And "of" instead of "off."
I hate that shit.
yelling really f#ing hurts my throat okay
There was an ancient Greek called Sotades of Maronea, who was by all accounts a magnificent poet and is credited with the invention of the palindrome.
He also had a penchant for writing absolute filth, and wrote a poem about Ptolemy II's marriage (to his own sister) that was so rude that Sotades was sealed into a lead casket and thrown in the sea.
That's a heavy sentence for some ribald poetry. Mind you, with a line that translates as "You're sticking your prick in an unholy hole", I can understand why Ptolemy II got a bit salty about it.
His last words: "worth it!"
I remember reading about once documented case where one small time royal in Africa at some point, to avoid capture, cut off the face of a dead man and tried to pass himself off as someone else. Full Hannibal Lecter. We only know about it because it didn't work, and he was immediately captured.
Are you implying we might be missing undocumented cases because they did work?
you never notice whenever that worked.
how many people in your life are just impostors wearing masks?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theagenes_of_Thasos
Pretty cool
Hmmm. I think Zeus did something again.
Thank the gods I didn't have to see the word fuck I don't know what I would have done if this meme had had swear words in it, my mom would have grounded me for reading it.
First time hearing this story and I fucking love it
Can anyone point me at a good place to read about ancient beef? I just find it so fascinating when two people's hatred for each other outlives themselves. Doesn't have to be ancient really, I'd settle for anything pre-20th century.
Here's a good starting point about ancient beef.
oh like the japanese baseball team cursed by the statue of colonel sanders