Who knew that Pliny the Younger had ghost stories??

[CleoQc]

My son's latin book had a ghost story in it, written by Pliny the younger! Who knew???

It was the standard ghost stories, with chains, and fetters, and rattling sounds, and bones not properly buried. Spooky! And all that time I thought ghosts were an invention of Victorian society... I was so mistaken!

I mean, I knew that ancient people did believe in deads coming back to haunt the living, I just wasn't aware those ghosts were wearing chains and shackles already!

[Nan in Mass]

Didn't you like the graffitti, too?
I took a year of Greek in college, and had the same plus ça change reaction (same textbook author LOL). It was the reason I wanted my children to study an ancient language.
-Nan

[CleoQc]

Yeah, Plus ça change...
In Wheelock, there was a text by Catullus I think, about the poor state of schools, and that kids didn't learn anything relevant in school anyway. It sounded so much like complaining we hear on an almost daily basis...

[Kareni]

Or this quote, commonly attributed (http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=398104) to Socrates:

"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for
authority, they show disrespect to their elders.... They no longer
rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents,
chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their
legs, and are tyrants over their teachers."

Regards,
Kareni