4 June 2006

Barbaric banter from former Python

What have the Romans ever done for us?

It's a rhetorical question first posed in Monty Python's Life of Brian by a Judean rebel leader, trying to fire up his unenthusiastic troops.

In EDP24 What's On answers are given. The historical writer and TV presenter, currently hosting Terry Jones' Barbarians on BBC2, even makes the following controversial claim: They held back science and technology for hundreds of years. They stamped out a lot of cultures.

Read more and search for the truth!

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