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@ImmanuelllKant who said that? (i forgot)

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.

@frozaut in Ovid his body disappears. they use the flower as a substitute: croecum pro corpore florem inveniunt foliis medium cingentibus albis

Waterhouse’s ‘Narcissus’ references the flower named after the Greek myth. ​ In the Greek myth Narcissus, a beautiful youth, fell deeply in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. He became completely entranced and could not tear himself away. He eventually wasted away and died on the spot from starvation and exhaustion. In some versions (e.g., Ovid’s Metamorphoses), the gods transformed his body into the narcissus flower (daffodil) where he died, as a memorial to his self-obsession. In others, the flower simply sprang up from the earth at the place of his death. The bloom thus symbolizes vanity, self-love, and unrequited desire.

@GeorgeGunner424 @doctor_rahmeh what do the Greek Cypriots do with the land of the Turkish Cypriots?

@doctor_rahmeh Stolen Properties of Greek Cypriots have been sold for the last 50 years, any care to mention ? i thought not.

LONDON EVENT INFILTRATED 🔥 Edgware United Synagogue is selling stolen Palestinian land RIGHT NOW. Anti-zionist jewish protestor managed to get inside and protest. instagram.com/reel/DZkUM9tMz…

@LordIxabert unsurprising

@ArgosNiko That certainly convinced me of nothing whatever.

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.

@LordIxabert also fun fact Latin and English share letters!

@LordIxabert ..but i think you actually said Greek and Latin. oops. also conventional usage does not 'strictly' determine a word's meaning. etymology is better for this. as im sure you know, the word literate most literally means lettered, without reference to a specific language

@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. 🧵

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?