Today I was watching a Big Bang Theory episode, where Leonard's girlfriend Leslie breaks up with him over their disagreement on which quantum gravity theory is correct. Her final quote is "I am sorry, I could have accepted our kids being genetically unable to eat ice-cream or ever get a good view of a parade, but this? This is a deal breaker."
This brought me to wonder, does the ancient world have similarly controversial topics? Not the kind you would leave your spouse of 20 years for, but something some may find difficult to agree with one way or another. Whether or not the Amazons were real does not count
I myself remember having a rather heated argument over whether or not Augustus' rise to power was an achievement or if he had just been inadvertently spoon-fed the whole thing by Caesar.
Any other similarly polarized topics in the ancient world?
This brought me to wonder, does the ancient world have similarly controversial topics? Not the kind you would leave your spouse of 20 years for, but something some may find difficult to agree with one way or another. Whether or not the Amazons were real does not count
I myself remember having a rather heated argument over whether or not Augustus' rise to power was an achievement or if he had just been inadvertently spoon-fed the whole thing by Caesar.
Any other similarly polarized topics in the ancient world?