Clarification needed on pre-Roman text

[merithyn]

So, a friend of mine sent me a link to a translation of an unbelievable story that supposedly comes from a Roman in ~70 B.C.

http://mvtabilitie.blogspot.com/search/label/Celtic%20Studies

But the thing is, I've never heard of this guy, this story, nor this writing attributed to him. My bullshitometer is flying off the scale. I haven't been able to find any citations for this supposed tale, nor of the author or book.

Can someone else verify that this is a true story? It would, of course, be interesting if so, but I'm not buying it until I see something a little more solid than that guy's blog.

[Brazen]

So, a friend of mine sent me a link to a translation of an unbelievable story that supposedly comes from a Roman in ~70 B.C.

http://mvtabilitie.blogspot.com/search/label/Celtic%20Studies

But the thing is, I've never heard of this guy, this story, nor this writing attributed to him. My bullshitometer is flying off the scale. I haven't been able to find any citations for this supposed tale, nor of the author or book.

Can someone else verify that this is a true story? It would, of course, be interesting if so, but I'm not buying it until I see something a little more solid than that guy's blog.

Yup, I call bullshit too. It reads as fiction and even the loosest translation of text from around that time reads nothing like that. You don't get huge tracts of dialogue like that outside plays.

Also, earliest first-person travelogue? Hello, Herodotus?

[Jos Theelen]

From Atratinus' De Britannia Insula, c. 70 BC: this is the earliest first-person travelogue from the ancient world

Nothing on internet about this book, so I think its bullshit.

[Slargos]

'I am Speech', said one face.
'I am Dawn', said another.
'Lukii, I am Your Father', said the third, and she pointed again at the Dagodeiwos.

I call bullshit.

[Malthus]

It's tagged as "creative writing". 

[Valmy]

Yeah this is as suspect as that Cicero quote American Conservatives use sometimes that actually came from a Kansas City newspaper.

[Caliga]

Fake.  As Brazen mentioned, this style of writing is nothing like what contemporary authors produced.

[merithyn]

Yup, I call bullshit too. It reads as fiction and even the loosest translation of text from around that time reads nothing like that. You don't get huge tracts of dialogue like that outside plays.

Also, earliest first-person travelogue? Hello, Herodotus?

That was pretty much what I figured, too.

[The Brain]

[BB] It's true!!!111 God (pbuh) said so!!!!!11111 [/BB]

[Scipio]

Faker than interpolations to Josephus.

[Ed Anger]

Th Druids deserved everything that happened to them.

[Lucidor]

Yeah this is as suspect as that Cicero quote American Conservatives use sometimes that actually came from a Kansas City newspaper.

Si vis aliquem nostorum televisionem vidit, credit Obamam insanem?

[Ed Anger]

Yeah this is as suspect as that Cicero quote American Conservatives use sometimes that actually came from a Kansas City newspaper.

Si vis aliquem nostorum televisionem vidit, credit Obamam insanem?

FoxNews delenda est.

And yes, I know that is Cato. Eat me.

[The Minsky Moment]

It's fake.

The giveaway is that there are no furries, which were a highly popular literary trope at the time that were woven into all the period's travel literature.

[Martinus]

Th Druids deserved everything that happened to them.

I agree.

First they put people into cages and set them on fire. Then they try to pass themselves as a nature-loving bunch of peaceniks and do-gooders.

They are like tories.