{"id":4648,"date":"2015-10-02T09:37:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T13:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=4648"},"modified":"2015-10-02T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T13:37:54","slug":"reminder-ancient-greece-a-hoax-historians-admitted-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2015\/10\/02\/reminder-ancient-greece-a-hoax-historians-admitted-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: &#8220;Ancient Greece&#8221; a hoax, historians admitted in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2015\/10\/vase.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2015\/10\/vase.jpg\" alt=\"vase\" width=\"323\" height=\"434\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2015\/10\/vase.jpg 323w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2015\/10\/vase-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/a>From the October 7, 2010 issue of <em>The Onion:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>&#8220;Honestly, we never meant for things to go this far,&#8221; said Professor Gene Haddlebury, who has offered to resign his position as chair of Hellenic Studies at Georgetown University. &#8220;We were young and trying to advance our careers, so we just started making things up: Homer, Aristotle, Socrates, Hippocrates, the lever and fulcrum, rhetoric, ethics, all the different kinds of columnseverything.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Five years after the revelation that Ancient Greece was a made-up load of bunk, what has changed? Not much. The Core Curriculum still teaches students about the Parthenon, the Peloponnese war, the epic poetry of Homer, and it does so with a straight face. Incorrigible.<\/p>\n<p>(Read the full article in the<em>Onion<\/em> archives, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/historians-admit-to-inventing-ancient-greeks-18209\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the October 7, 2010 issue of The Onion: &#8220;Honestly, we never meant for things to go this far,&#8221; said Professor Gene Haddlebury, who has offered to resign his position as chair of Hellenic Studies at Georgetown University. &#8220;We were young and trying to advance our careers, so we just started making things up: Homer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6590],"tags":[4719,4794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4650,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions\/4650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}