[lbo-talk] Re: Disinfo: croaks from the frog of war

[John Mage]

The great Lucian wrote a scathing account of propaganda accounts of the
Roman invasion of Mesopotamia of 165-166 "Pos dei istorian suggraphein"
or "How to write History" - here he's dealing with one Athenian hack
writer (at ¶20 - Kilburn trans vol VI of the Loeb Lucian at p.31:
"[He] described  incredible wounds and monstous deaths, how
one man was wounded in the big toe and died on the spot, and how Perseus
the general just gave a shout and twenty-seven of the enemy fell dead.
And in the number slain he even contradicted the officers' despatches
with his false figures: at Europus, he said, the enemy lost 70,236 killed,
while the Romans lost just two and had nine wounded. I do not think
anyone in his senses would accept that."

john mage