Hark! A Vagrant - The Father of Lies

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Gold, as always.

"Old Greek dudes never said 'fat butts,' but you'll never take my degree away!"

I'm pretty sure they did. And still do. In Greek.Old Greek.

Herodotus is my favorite dead Greek guy. Guy had some awesome stories, and I can only imagine how much more interesting our history would be if he wrote about, say, World War II. It'd be all Winston Churchill punching out Nazi werewolves or something.

Man I bet this statue that ancient Greeks talked about fat butts ALL THE TIME.

You madam, are a true GENIUS.
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Loved this strip. Loved. IT.

Oops. That "anonymous" was me...

herodotus is the sir-mix-a-lot of the 5th century

The second-to-last panel is hilarious.

And they totally did say "fat butts"...just, uh, they said it in Greek!

φατ βὗττς

looks all right to me.

I have no knowledge of the facts underlying this comic and it's still damn funny.

I recently discovered your online internet webcomic and despite my complete lack of ghetto cred, I'm forced to proclaim that it is THE bomb.

Love your expressive, beautiful art
Love learning things and stuff
Love seeing famous historical figures talking like modern teenagers

Keep that shit up.

-Boothy
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I absolutely love this.

Giant ants!

That's a really nice tapered beard.

hahaha this is one of my favorites, Beats. "You're the father of pain-in-my-ass" is gold

I like the part where they're making out. It is in a seventh panel that exists only in my head, but trust me: hot.

I lol'd.

Oh Herodotus! You big fat lier! Haha, Giant Ants. Ha ha, ho ho, good stuff. Would read again, A++.

To be the father of fat butts, do you have to sire a child that is mostly fat butt? D:

Yeah, well, Thucydides was boring. Lies > boring any day.

I like the simple shading effect you used for the backgrounds here. Maybe it's me, but I don't recall seeing you use something like that before.

So, those giant ants? Yeah, that's right, they're friggin' real, although you could maybe say that Herodotus was maybe a smidge too literal in his understanding of the Persian "mountain ant" (and where that sacrificing the male camels came from, who knows, and his rejection of the real explanation for the source of the Nile's floods versus his explanation - that the Sun gets really close to Earth and blows rainclouds off course and into the Nile - is just adorable lies now I guess) but, you know, at least Herodotus didn't get exiled because he lost a whole island to the enemy, and an important one at that, because he was screwing around on some other one.

Okay, so maybe I do care.

also herodotus isn't boring and dry as a bone, and it's not like thucydides doesn't digress himself sometimes

i wish i could get it tatooed on my chest!
anyone who knows their herodotus from their Thucydides is a king in my book.
madame... I consider you a king.

My friend (a classics major) has just emailed this to all of his professors at Vassar College.

YOU ARE PROBABLY BECOMING FAMOUS OR SOMETHING

Facts schmacts, Herodotus was the best part of my ancient greek history class! Thucydides bored me to tears! TO TEARS.

I want you to write and illustrate textbook histories.
Because if you did I would know so much about history.
bewteen you and Sarah Vowell, I'd probably try to get a degree in it.

You're amazing. :D

As a classicist and a teacher of classical history, I thank you so much for this comic.

Do you mind if it gets used, with proper attribution to you, in some first year university history classes?