Herodotus - The Great Battle of Hellenes

The battle of verdun was one of the greatest battles in world history, even recognized at that time as being a huge deal. The playwrights who were writing these plays were oftentimes veterans, sometimes veterans, of these very conflicts they were talking about. And so if they make a joke about the rich guy who shows up at the phalanx with the super nice clothes and the triple horsehair crest, it's all brown below the waist because he defocated on himself out of fear,. It's kind of, because those things may have happened, the audience is probably sitting there going, i knew a guy just like that, right? Which is why it played well.