I am become Fancy: Theatre by The Internet Historian - Reaction 

Speaking as a guy who actually has a degree in this and even does it for a living, (a BA in Theatre, with a Classics minor to boot) I can confirm that all of this is basically accurate.

Ah I love Debussy so much

2:36, I recognized Jason X. Goddamn that movie was intended as a horror movie, but it was just one big, self aware comedy.

"Way, way too soon." My brother in christ, Lincoln died in 1865. What are you a lich who saw it happen?

History major here The reason we believe cuneiform is the first written language is because while we know there were civilizations that existed before the Sumerians (hinted at from their own writings and different regional cultures) none of THOSE civilizations had writing yet, or at least on the scale that the Sumerians did. The only reason we even know of Cuneiform is because of how much the Sumerians actually wrote that some of it managed to survive. It’s very hard to keep something preserved for that long if only one piece of it exists or there is few of it (like if your house stood for 10,000 years) but when it is so widespread it leaves a visible difference within and outside of its own time it’s much easier to find it. (Like if you built a million houses it’s more likely people would find traces of one of them to know they existed). There is also Linear A and B, Linear B is close to Greek and we do understand it. Linear A was spoken by the proto-Greeks and we still haven’t deciphered how to read it because we haven’t found a “Rosseta Stone” that will let us cross-read it from a previously understood language. (The Rosseta Stone translated from Greek to hieroglyphs from the period where Egypt had Greek pharaohs under the Ptolemys which essentially let us immediately understand the language since we already knew Greek.)

ah internet historian, a man of tragedy & comedy, Romance & heart break, humorous yet educational!

bussy???

Hey, that Troy movie was actually pretty good. It didnt need to be an oscar winner, but it still made itself pretty awesome all around. That love story was technically in the Iliad anyway, but the movie made it much more palatable compared to what it actually was.

just got to the impressionist segment and i can already HEAR the clicking and clacking of keyboards around the world making jokes about the mans name and swiftly deleting it... god bless the internet... edit: anyone else notice how he pulled up the daily wire version of snow white instead of the shitty one made by disney?

You didn't upload that serious business one, did you react to it in your own time?

Greetings Older man, have you tried DMT yet?

Debussy Stans, rise up.