Scholars argue a lot of things. Though it’s true that a lot of the work of Roman historians is really one faction slandering another. But the behavior of some of the emperors was so grotesquely evil that it’s hard to separate the truth from the lies.
Both the greeks and romans and their forebearers all practiced just obvious bias in their writing. About a rival they might describe him as the most famous pederast of the land.
Scholars argue a lot of things. Though it’s true that a lot of the work of Roman historians is really one faction slandering another. But the behavior of some of the emperors was so grotesquely evil that it’s hard to separate the truth from the lies.
Both the greeks and romans and their forebearers all practiced just obvious bias in their writing. About a rival they might describe him as the most famous pederast of the land.
We’ve advanced so much since then! We’ve put a pedophile in power, yet allow him to bury the evidence so nobody calls him that.