"The past and the present are virtually the same to me, because it's just continuity. With the Tudors and Vikings, we make them seem resonant and relevant to people today."
I think somebody just woke up and decided what they really want to make is The Tudors with togas.
Which is fine if that's what you acknowledge you're doing, but if you try to present it as some kind of recovery of lost and important history, I am going to continue to give you the raspberry, which was my first response to reading that article. "Make them seem resonant and relevant to people today": because no one has ever become interested in the classical world for what it was really like, not because the power players were Just Like Us, Only Sexier.
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Date: 2018-02-11 06:46 pm (UTC)I think somebody just woke up and decided what they really want to make is The Tudors with togas.
Which is fine if that's what you acknowledge you're doing, but if you try to present it as some kind of recovery of lost and important history, I am going to continue to give you the raspberry, which was my first response to reading that article. "Make them seem resonant and relevant to people today": because no one has ever become interested in the classical world for what it was really like, not because the power players were Just Like Us, Only Sexier.