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Glossary:Artistic License. View source. History Talk 0. Artistic License Artistic license refers to deviation from fact or form for artistic purposes. Categories Glossary Entries. Still, chances are that they myth might be older than we believe. Records state that when Hippias learnt about his brother's murder, he acted rationally. Here, he is seen crying over his death. One of the villagers he meets wears a horned helmet, even though Dark Ages Vikings never wore horned helmets, let alone Middle Ages Englishmen.

Said temple is drawn as a pyramid, even though Egyptian worship places do not have resemblance whatsoever to pyramids. Comic Strips. In September , a character in Tank McNamara was said to have researched the Vandals the name of a college sports team and found that they were part of Norse mythology.

The Vandals have nothing to do with Norse mythology; they were a historic Germanic tribe, or perhaps Slavs, who invaded the Roman Empire. That the Swedes started using this particular title in , a good years after the Wends disappeared from history is mostly as part of a pissing contest with the king of Denmark and Norway, who similarly claimed to be the king of the Wends and Goths.

Films — Animation. The Legend of the Titanic has a mouse who sneaked aboard the Titanic named Top Connors tells his grandchildren the "real" story of the Titanic : a giant octopus named Tentacles was tricked into throwing the iceberg into the ship by a gang of sharks as part of a whaler's evil scheme, and he saved the Titanic and everyone on it.

Don Bluth 's Anastasia has it on several levels: The film begins in winter , and depicts Anastasia as an eight-year-old princess at the time. In reality, Anastasia was 15 years old and had she been eight at that point, she would've been younger than her real-life younger brother Alexei. At the beginning , see above , the Dowager Empress narrates that the th anniversary of the Romanow dynasty's rule over Russia was celebrated.

In Real Life , this anniversary was in Additionally, Rasputin's curse see below states that the Romanovs would die within a fortnight of the curse being set. In reality, the Romanovs were arrested in February at the start of the February Revolution, and were executed a year afterwards.

The Nostalgia Chick : I think it was mainly for recognizability and aesthetics. And "Together in Copenhagen " doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

The first line of "Sink the Bismarck" is "In May of , the war had just begun. Britain, for example, had been trading air strikes with Germany since the second half of Really, none of the statements about Tut are true, other than " He's an Egyptian. This was lampshaded by Martin himself in a New York Times piece, humorously "setting the record straight" though also taking credit for the profound insight that Tut was Egyptian.

Neil Young 's song "Cortez the Killer" describes the Aztecs as being a peaceful people and "war was never known". The Aztecs are notorious for being particularly brutal, practicing Human Sacrifice on a virtually industrial scale, to the point where part of the reason Cortez was able to conquer their empire so easily was because practically every other tribe in Mexico joined him in an Enemy Mine.

I remember the year I went to camp Heard about a lady named Selma and some blacks Somebody put their fingers in the president's ear And it wasn't too much later they came out with Johnson's wax. The Goon Show : "The Histories of Pliny the Elder" begins with Julius Caesar successfully conquering and occupying Britain for ten years, and ends with the heroes joining up with Spartacus and dying in a volcanic eruption.

Justified as Goon Show ran on Rule of Funny , and they probably decided to just throw in every aspect of Roman history the average listener could be expected to know about, the episode also included a reference to Hannibal Barca, who had been dead for over a century by Caesar's time. Tabletop Games. For reference, this is the same as writing a story under the premise that George H. Bush and George W. Bush are the same person. They just seem to have not realized they were not only two different people, but father and son.

A hint is that "Dracula" roughly translates to English as "Son of the Dragon", with "a" being the "Son of" part. Grave Robbers from Outer Space. In practice, "historically accurate" in this case means that he just looked up stuff that people used to believe at one point or another, and treated it as though it's actually true.

Swashbuckling adventure game 7th Sea tries its best to justify this by being set in a world which is not explicitly Earth "Theah" , but instead has nearly-identical geography except for lacking the Americas , and is made entirely of Fantasy Counterpart Cultures with Significant Names.

The result is a world much like our own, circa the Queen of "Avalon" is a clear Elizabeth I expy Woe betide the GM who tries to use its books for anything set in the real Cavalier Years. In Arkham Horror , one of the Arkham Asylum encounters in the Innsmouth Horror expansion has you sneaking into a finger-painting session. Finger-painting is indeed used as a component of mental therapy at times, so that's done right. The problem? Art therapy in general dates only to the late s, with finger painting as a later addition to the milieu.

Finger painting itself dates to prehistoric times, but it wasn't part of art education until the s. What did exist is "brigandine" or "coat-of-plates" styles of armor for example what Stark soldiers are shown wearing in Game of Thrones , where small steel plates often recycled from scrapped plate armor were riveted to the inside of an outer layer made of leather or thick cloth.

It provided decent protection at a price even many commoners could afford. The game designers likely saw a picture of brigandine and jumped to the wrong conclusion. The game has, since its inception, described a longsword as a one-handed sword. Only as of 5th edition has the weapon been given the 'versatile' trait, allowing it to be wielded in two hands to increase damage, but even this is historically inaccurate.

In reality, the term "long sword" was explicitly devised to describe swords too long to be used in one hand. The term was meant to differentiate from swords meant to be wielded in one hand, which were typically just called "swords," or in some cases "arming swords. Pathfinder 's "weapon groups" mechanic divides up several broad categories of weapons for the purposes of mainly Fighter and Cavalier class features, including two separate groups for "spears" stabbing weapons on sticks and "polearms" other kinds of Blade on a Stick like halberds or pole-hammers.

This distinction didn't historically exist: spears are properly a subset of polearms. Nearly all medieval and post-medieval oddly-shaped spear variants from the halberd to the glaive could still be used to stab an enemy held at haft's length, and conversely the heads on fighting spears were often edged and could cut in addition to stabbing. Web Animation. Artistic license or poetic license was the right of an artist to change the details of their work to suit their own personal tastes, rather than rigidly complying with accuracy.

In , after Neelix criticized Harry Kim 's doll replica of Flotter , Kim told him they weren't going for an exact likeness of the character, citing artistic license.

In , after hearing " Alice " leave out the part from the myth of Daedalus and Icarus where Icarus died , Tom Paris called "her" on it.

VOY : " Alice ". Later that year, when Paris informed B'Elanna Torres that the one problem with her replica television was that there were no remote controls in the s , Torres explained her decision to include one as poetic license. VOY : " Memorial ". In , Tuvok noted that his wife T'Pel 's ears were in fact four millimeters shorter than those of a holographic duplicate Paris created to help Tuvok deal with pon farr.

Paris explained it away as him having taken artistic license.