For my project, I wanted to explore how the perception of history can be contorted and mangled by the people who have given us historical literature, and the style they used to create such literature. Things like journals and autobiographies are a huge part of our access into the past. It is these works of literature that paint the hazy image for our present day minds. Yet, I wanted to consider why our reenactments look the way they look and feel the way they feel. Considering the fact, that ancient history is told by writers and artists, it must be these authors that sway us into seeing the past the way it is.
They do not do it on purpose. It is something they have no control over. They simply write in hopes that one day, people like us can gather some understanding of what they went through. It is people like Seneca the Younger and Pliny the Younger, who wanted to literally write out their own history.
