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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:04:41 -0700
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On 20 Oct 2024 01:36:32 GMT, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:50:10 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> 
>>>> Read Tacitus for example.
>>> 
>>> Fictional/hypothetical society, or real society?
>> 
>> Publius Cornelius Tacitus writing about the Germanic people on 'De
>> origine et situ Germanorum', aka 'Germania'.
> 
> So he was the Margaret Mead of his day. How sweet.
> 
> What, you thought the “Noble Savage” myth was some modern thing?
> 

In part he was building up the Germans to shame his own countrymen.

-- 
Pete