Re: Life Love and the Universe in drwho on usenet

On 4 Sep, 22:44, "Agamemnon" wrote:

"Peter J Ross"wrote in message
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In rec.arts.drwho on Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:26:11 +0100, Agamemnon
wrote:

"Peter J Ross" wrote in message
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Do you believe that Theseus ruled Athens?

Yes. Thesues is an undisputed historical king of Athens.

"Theseus (Greek: Θησεύς) was a legendary king of Athens"

No he wasn't. There was only one Theseus and his existence is a historically
documented and undisputed FACT.

Since people ARE disputing it, it cannot be an "undisputed" fact.

He was not the combination of any other
kings of the same name of who did similar deeds so he is not legendary.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus>

Anyone can edit Wikipedia, nearly all of them unqualified.


So far that hasn't prevented them from disputing the fact.

Do you consider legend and history to be the same?

You don't have a clue what legend means or what history is. See above.
Theseus is a historically documented and undisputed FACT. There is NOT ONE
single ancient historian who disputed his existence.

You're doing that "mixing up past and present tense" thing again. You
do it so often that I'm beginning to wonder if it's not just the
tenses but the actual concepts of past and present that confuse you...

Irrelevant, unless Theseus is named.

TWADDLE! Theseus bones were documented with his name at his shrine in Scyros
when Cimon brought them back to Athens.

And they did forensic DNA tests to confirm these were the right
bones...?


Nope. They were Theseus bones. If you dispute they were Theseus bones, when
this event happened only 800 years after Theseus death then you might as
well dispute that the bones of William the Conqueror and those of all the
English kings up to about 1200 AD including those of Richard I which are
interred in France are actually theirs too.

Not a very good example. IIRC there _is_ some dispute about whether
or not William the Conqueror's one surviving bone really is his.
There may even be some dispute about other kings' bones too, but I
don't remember the details.
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