It's all very distressing, the way these wacky scholars keep going back and forth on the date. Last time, the big news was that, based on the dating of the wine vats, a coin found in the ruins, and the clothing people were wearing, combined with an alternate way to read the date in Pliny Jr.'s writing, the eruption would have been in October, not August.
I should be excited about reading the latest research. Instead, I am rather irritated by what this is doing to my comic's timeline! My poor confused characters! :}
My SO (sordak) is dealing with a bit of the opposite problem. He was writing an alternate history about Rome, (The Roman View), and, in doing some research to (finally) give some names to the totally made-up characters, found a situation in the time period he was thinking about, which, with a small bit of tweaking, matched his characters and opportunities. This was not the first time he has done such a thing.
Weirdly, that's often the type of luck I have when writing about the ancient world. You come up with something, then discover that, yes, there was such-and-such a person or event. Spoooooky.
Maybe I should have stuck with the original plan and not listened to those pesky dueling archaeologists! Always uncovering new evidence trying to discover the truth. Hmph!
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
Re: New uses for Fish Sauce!
Date: 2008-10-21 12:05 pm (UTC)I should be excited about reading the latest research. Instead, I am rather irritated by what this is doing to my comic's timeline! My poor confused characters! :}
Re: New uses for Fish Sauce!
Date: 2008-10-22 01:46 am (UTC)Re: New uses for Fish Sauce!
Date: 2008-10-22 12:03 pm (UTC)Maybe I should have stuck with the original plan and not listened to those pesky dueling archaeologists! Always uncovering new evidence trying to discover the truth. Hmph!