I turned this on because I wanted to learn more about Carthage. I found what was said to be very interesting, and then it got to the Rome stuff. The fact that it gets Rome so wrong makes me assume I can't trust what was said about Carthage.
The most obvious example of this shoe being disingenuous is when it actively tries to hide the fact that it was Marcus Agrippa (right hand man to Augustus) who designed the Pantheon and instead they give credit to Hadrian. It even says on the front, "M. Agrippa...build this." It was Agrippa who turned Rome into a city of marble, built 200+ bathhouses and built new ways for water to get into the city. This doc suggests it was Hadrian who did these things.
It is definitely true that Hadrian rebuilt the Pantheon after the original was destroyed during the great fire of Nero's reign and he didn't replace Agrippa's name with his own on the front, but the original was built in 27BC and burned in 64 AD. Hadrian was born 76 AD.
Such a weird thing to lie about.
The most obvious example of this shoe being disingenuous is when it actively tries to hide the fact that it was Marcus Agrippa (right hand man to Augustus) who designed the Pantheon and instead they give credit to Hadrian. It even says on the front, "M. Agrippa...build this." It was Agrippa who turned Rome into a city of marble, built 200+ bathhouses and built new ways for water to get into the city. This doc suggests it was Hadrian who did these things.
It is definitely true that Hadrian rebuilt the Pantheon after the original was destroyed during the great fire of Nero's reign and he didn't replace Agrippa's name with his own on the front, but the original was built in 27BC and burned in 64 AD. Hadrian was born 76 AD.
Such a weird thing to lie about.