The founding moment of many cities is lost in the mist of time, that is to say, it is unknown, although decorated “a posteriori” with beautiful myths; On the other hand, the founding moment of many other cities is very well known.
Knowing the date of an historical event is not so easy
Men need to place events in time, need to give events a date; but the different cultures and peoples date based on several events, interesting to them, but irrelevant for other people.
Christ was born at least four years before Christ
The monk who, in the sixth century, set the birth of Christ to the year 753, year of the foundation of Rom, made a miscalculation. However nobody proposes to correct that historical mistake nowadays.
The fire, air and water not only didn’t destroy, but retained the greatest archaeological sites
The forces of nature are powerful, uncontrollable and destructive, but sometimes produce unexpected results
But, what is century?
A “century” is more than a hundred years, at least for the Romans
Greco-Persian or Greco-Median Wars were not a health problem
The Greeks lived throughout its history the confrontation with the Persians as a war of the democratic freedom against the tyranny of Persia.
History had a father
The man is a being with memory of the past, at some point began the conscious reflection on the past. We also owe to the Greeks “History” as a literary genre and as a science.
NIHIL NOVUM SUB SOLE (There is nothing new under the sun)
Why are we so interested in the “old world”? Probably because it is not as old as some people could think …