The quote "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity," attributed to the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger,
I think this is interesting when Wiki has pages and pages about these people that supposedly existed 2,000 years ago.
How much evidence exists about these people today? I'm unaware of lots and lots of manuscripts of monks writing all this stuff down thousands of years ago. 2,000 years ago there was no printing press (so hard to keep records), and most people were illiterate laborers. Somehow there were also all these poets and scholars, which Wiki knowns a lot about, but there isn't (as far as I know) gazillions of pages written by them and about them sitting in libraries and museums all over the place.
I think lots of it is made up!
Seneca was born in Córdoba in the Roman province of Baetica in Hispania. [6] His branch of the Annaea gens consisted of Italic colonists, of Umbrian or Paelignian origins. [7] His father was Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Elder, a Spanish-born Roman knight who had gained fame as a writer and teacher of rhetoric in Rome
Come on. In 50 BC are we really to believe that Rome (no power, no machines, not much) had famous celebrated "teachers of rhetoric"? How about soldiers, farmers, merchants, ladies of the night and cobblers? That I could believe. But....are we to believe that all the uneducated peasants and landed spoiled gentry were celebrating.......rhetoric instructors?
I think some dude writes something 100 years ago, and everyone after him assumes that the original "historian" knew what he was talking about, so all the follow on historians just write the same thing as the first guy, who made it up. |
