• Waveform@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    4 months ago

    If the universe is continuous and not discrete, then I imagine no history is ever lost… but good luck ever retrieving any accurate info from it. It would be the same as reading the currents of water to build a model of what the water encountered upstream…

  • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    4 months ago

    Move over “assassinate Hitler”, my new time traveler goals involve rescuing the works of Claudius, the Scholar-Emperor!

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      One of the books he wrote was an Etruscan-Latin dictionary. Etruscan studies academia would crown you as their god if you came back with that

  • Vince@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    I’m sure there’s an obvious answer, but how do we know all about what he wrote but not have any of it?

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      20·
      4 months ago

      References in other works. Suetonius, for example:

      At last he even wrote historical works in Greek, twenty books of Etruscan History and eight of Carthaginian. Because of these works there was added to the old Museum at Alexandria a new one called after his name, and it was provided that in the one his Etruscan History should be read each year from beginning to end, and in the other his Carthaginian, by various readers in turn, in the manner of public recitations.