He mistook details and distorted Roman history in the large.
William Shakespeare followed this distorted history in describing both men and the Queen consort Gruoch in his play Macbeth.
What is troubling is its use of a kind of distorted history to substantiate a veritably cultish, mythic vision.
Memory work then entails adding an ethical component which acknowledges the responsibility towards revisiting distorted histories thereby decreasing the risk of social exclusion and increasing the possibility of social cohesion of at-risk groups.
This is tepid stuff compared with the big-buck entertainments once more being made of distorted histories of the Indian wars.
In "My Brother Sam Is Dead," written by two historians, James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, they claimed it distorted history.
Professor Rakove disagreed with that, saying misstatements about Madison's letter to Coxe showed how proponents of an individual right to arms distorted history.
At school we were taught an obscenely distorted history of my people, as well as that of all the other exploited colonies.
The Emperor would write his own distorted history, falsely painting Dominic as a heinous criminal who had been at large for decades.
In the same book, Windschuttle maintains that historians on both sides of the political spectrum have misrepresented and distorted history to further their respective political causes or ideological positions.