ArgosNiko

@blackjaguar351 we need more ai slop

A day and life in Ancient Greece

@Pastpassport there is so much wrong here. im comforted knowing it was written by ai

Homer wrote nothing. His epics lived in the mouths of performers for centuries before anyone wrote them down. Byzantine scholars in Constantinople kept copying them when the entire West had forgotten Greek existed. No copies. No Keats. No Odyssey film opening July 17.

Everyone thinks Rome's fall destroyed the ancient world's great books. Wrong. Most were already gone before a single barbarian crossed the border. Nine survived because of people you've never heard of. 🧵

@LordIxabert that is not what "illiterate" means, literally. (i looked it up)

If a man is unversed in Latin & Greek, he is, in the strict sense of the term (do look it up), an ILLITERATE. I say that not in any spirit of moral judgment, but as a matter of accurate classification. He may be clever, or even wise, but he remains an uneducated barbarian.

Matthew Arnold. "Study of Celtic Literature" (1867)

@johnhboyer if you are getting your texts from Perseus, just be aware that they claim copyright on them as digital assets

Please check out the Aristotle Reader Project v. 0.5 johnhboyer-sys.github.io/nicomachean-et… Going to expand corpus offerings. Suggestions and bug reports in replies please! If you like it, please RT!

@BBHerodotus pretty sure most universities have the Harvard Classics and the Bible. along with thousands of other resources. you could literally learn the languages the Harvard Classics translate from. ill take the 10 years please

I’m of the opinion that a young man could lock himself away in a tower for a year with the five foot shelf of Harvard Classics and a good Bible, and would re-emerge a better man than had he spent a decade in a modern university.

@euromaximal not only does it not lift them out. it keeps them in

Tourism doesn’t lift countries out of poverty. It never has. All it does is keep them trapped in a loop of mediocrity, low-value activities and chronic inability to produce anything of value. It also reduces housing availability, making it more expensive for native populations.

Greek orphanage at Prinkipos. The largest wooden building in Europe. Now abandoned

@ulfcytel what are the purples?

Me and the Wife built this writing desk. I proclaim this to you, I will write more articles and work on a solid book for you

@EvrenSAuthor what does Rum mean in Turkish?

Romans=\ Greek/Hellenes This is a basic claim in Byzantine identity studies. Many medieval Romans were Greek-speaking, yes. But their primary self-designation was Romaioi, Romans. Greek-speaking Roman does not automatically mean “Greek” as an ethnic identity. Roman identity in Byzantium was imperial, political, religious, cultural, and legal. It cannot simply be collapsed into one ethnic label. Reference List Kaldellis, A. (2007) Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kaplanis, T.A. (2014) ‘Antique Names and Self-Identification: Hellenes, Graikoi, and Romaioi from Late Byzantium to the Greek Nation-State’, in Tziovas, D. (ed.) Re-imagining the Past: Antiquity and Modern Greek Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 80–97. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199672752.003.0005. Stouraitis, I. (2014) ‘Roman identity in Byzantium: a critical approach’, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 107(1), pp. 175–220. doi:10.1515/bz-2014-0009. Theodoropoulos, P. (2021) ‘Did the Byzantines call themselves Byzantines? Elements of Eastern Roman identity in the imperial discourse of the seventh century’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 45(1), pp. 1–13. doi:10.1017/byz.2020.25.

@leslivresss straight italics is wild

livre madame bovary

@trottskyathome any "best author" list with shakespeare at the top was made by someone who knows only english and who didn't read much after highschool drama club

Any "best author" list that doesn't have Shakespeare at the top is questionable. Any that doesn't have him in the top 10 is probably political.

{ξένους τινὰς ἐν Ῥώμῃ πλουσίους κυνῶν τέκνα καὶ πιθήκων ἐν τοῖς κόλποις περιφέροντας καὶ ἀγαπῶντας ἰδὼν ὁ Καῖσαρ, ὡς ἔοικεν, ἠρώτησεν εἰ παιδία παρ' αὐτοῖς οὐ τίκτουσιν αἱ γυναῖκες, ἡγεμονικῶς σφόδρα νουθετήσας τοὺς τὸ φύσει φιλητικὸν ἐν ἡμῖν καὶ φιλόστοργον εἰς θηρία καταναλίσκοντας ἀνθρώποις ὀφειλόμενον.}

@MichaelPoliako3 every modern greek translation should serve only the purpose of helping its reader connect with the original

Ἡ Μετάφρασις τῆς Καινῆς Διαθήκης εἰς τὴν Νεοελληνικὴν, ἣν ἐπετέλεσεν ὁ ἐξαίρετος θεολόγος καὶ φιλόλογος Νικόλαος Ἰω. Σωτηρόπουλος εἶνε ἡ ἀγαπημένη μου.

@JaycelAdkins an ancient Greek textbook

What are the best scholarly texts on the Greek tragedies if one wanted to dive deep after reading?

@TheocharousH @greek_heritage @Greekculture @yppeth @cultureGR @GreeceMFA @UNESCO @Pontifex @EcuPatriarch we have to stop crying about Constantinople

🚨SHOCKING CONTRAST: One Hagia Sophia a Church, the other desecrated by Turkish barbarity🚨 This is the Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki, built just over a hundred years after the one in Constantinople. It stands today exactly as it was meant to be, a glorious Christian Church, yet in Constantinople, Turkish barbarity forcibly converted the original Hagia Sophia into a mosque, stripping its true glory as a church but whatever they do, they will never manage to erase its identity. Wherever the Turkish path went, it left behind nothing but destruction, misery, and suffering. The international community has stayed silent on Turkey’s atrocities for decades. The question remains: WHY? Christian heritage deserves to be protected, not erased.

@MLakonias this is 100% not Greek architecture

A reminder to those who arrogantly and ignorantly refuse to acknowledge the immeasurable contribution of the Greeks to Western Civilisation

@nguyenhdi Sappho

Among classic authors, who's the best writer of (romantic) love? Jane Austen? Tolstoy?

@Incictus_V yea i think the building can be deduced with some research. but i had to make these harder lol

@ArgosNiko Is this even possible from context clues?

Coordinates Challenge. $10

@Incictus_V yea. i think location via coordinates makes the most sense

@ArgosNiko Wait you want the coordinates of this specific school?