Dacopații și „rescrierea” istoriei. Cum poate o aberație, repetată de o mie de ori, să devină adevăr

Abstract

Common phenomenon among small nations, the protochronism gave birth to parallel histories, subjugating scientific research to myths and imagination. The dacomaniacs and dacopaths have their origins in Nicolae Densusianu’s work, Prehistoric Dacia, published in 1913. Ever since, in Romanian historiography there is a pseudo-
scientific current, that minimizes the role played by Roman civilization and Latin language and overbids the Dac factor. Nowadays, taking advantages of naivety and poor level of knowledge that dominate Romanian audience, the new dacopths essay to write a new history. Among popular authors there are Iosif Constantin Dragan and Napoleon Savescu, none of them specialist in historic studies. The most terrifying fact about dacopaths is that they invade the virtual space and their ineptudes penetrate even trough quality papers. The scientific world does not take a stand and ignores the aspect, encouraging the dacopaths to gain even more public support.