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2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past

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244 points benbreen | 2 comments | 15 Jan 25 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.485s | source
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abeppu ◴[16 Jan 25 16:22 UTC] No.42727372[source]▶
The inscription on the Sword of Goujian, the translation for which is displayed in the article, says that the King of Yue made and used the sword himself. How literally do people with knowledge of the period take that? Is it surprising / unlikely for a king of that period to make anything themselves, especially something so ornate, rather than commission it?
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1. codemonkey-zeta ◴[16 Jan 25 16:59 UTC] No.42727811[source]▶
Julius Caesar made the dang calendar. People had a lot of free time.
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2. rsynnott ◴[17 Jan 25 00:32 UTC] No.42732735[source]▶
That was kind of his job (as pontifex maximus), tho.