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  1. Sep 2022
    1. It is one of the most popular

      Medieval fantasy has completely warped people's minds on what occurred and what did not.

    2. Augustus’s narrative of a simpler, better Rome “back then” conflated foggy history with myth and legend,

      This connects to the previous point, he went off of stories and not fact

    3. History is our way of rendering the past into stories

      History is written by the victors, we hardly get a losing side's story

    4. he relied on myths

      Nothing he knew was based on facts, all legends he had heard