ArgosNiko
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@ArgosNiko @Joachim1428561 I'm okay with Parmenides actually. I don't mind it much at least it's not boring.
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@AnthonyM58160 those works are extremely popular. new editions and translations come out every year.
and you'll more than likely be reading a translation by a 'modern editor' anyway
i see this mentality everywhere and i don't get it
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@ArgosNiko Modern wisdom from modern editors based off of modern bestsellers would reject Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, the Divine Comedy, the Iliad.
I don't want the wisdom of modern editors. I want to take my lessons from the greatest writers in history.
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Thinking of starting a book club for writers where we acrually read and learn from real classic literature instead of "what sells".
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@Incictus_V @Joachim1428561 Parmenides is worse. But yea, I think reading the same translator across dialogues makes the most sense
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@ArgosNiko @Joachim1428561 If I ever get good enough at Greek I'm pulling a jowett and doing a translation and commentary of every dialogue except maybe Laws so I don't kill myself.
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@Incictus_V @Joachim1428561 that makes sense. just looked it up and almost every dialogue has a different translator. not sure how i feel about that 😬
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@ArgosNiko @Joachim1428561 It's a compilation of translatons not a single translator. I have read most of the book but my Greek isn't good enough to judge to the original.
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Read the great books and you'll become a conservative.
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@Eridiongido hahaha we can agree that it doesn't compete! i do like the interior sunken floor though ...
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@ArgosNiko That's exactly why it was so controversial
But the cool thing about the glass is that instead of competing with the beautiful old stonework, it actually reflects it. It’s meant to be a modern frame for the historic space, rather than trying to imitate it.
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From eerie 1930 boat rides to a glowing 2022 masterpiece .... Basilica Cistern’s timeless magic.
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@Eridiongido it sacrifices the entire aesthetic of the space, while also being cheap and artificial by comparison
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@GilbertCTweets its not from thermotita (θερμότητα). that's Modern Greek. it's from thermos (θερμός) "warm, hot, boiling, glowing"
Thermodynamics don't apply. God is transcendent (transcends natural laws) and immaterial. Man is a created, mortal, finite being. Thermo (from the Greek thermótita) means "heat". Dynamics (from the Greek dunamikós) means power. The power of heat.
NOTHING to do with the infinite.
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In 1847, German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz formalized the 1st Law of Thermodynamics mathematically, establishing it as a universal principle. Matter cannot be created, or destroyed. This law to me has always echoed the unique, often divisive, doctrine of Latter-Day Saint theology that man was in the beginning with God, and that intelligence, as well as matter, are eternal elements of the universe. I noticed studying this evening that the revelation in Doctrine & Covenants 93 was given to Joseph Smith from our Lord Jesus Christ in 1833, 14 years prior to the formalization of the first law of thermodynamics. I would say that is prophetic.
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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.
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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.
John William Waterhouse@waterhouse_art
Narcissus #artbots #waterhouse
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@GeorgeGunner424 @doctor_rahmeh what do the Greek Cypriots do with the land of the Turkish Cypriots?
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@doctor_rahmeh Stolen Properties of Greek Cypriots have been sold for the last 50 years, any care to mention ? i thought not.
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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…
Dr Rahmeh Aladwan@doctor_rahmeh
Shame on Edgware United Synagogue for selling STOLEN Palestinian land today. The terrorist IOF and jewish settlers cleared the land of the native Muslim and Christian Palestinians by force. PROTEST NOW UNTIL 16:30: The intersection of Edgware Way and Broadhurst Avenue, HA8 8TL
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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.
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@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
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