Spartacus
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• He/Him , Il/Lui • Speak/Parle: English 🇬🇧 , Français 🇫🇷 Classics Enthusiast
My extremely high standards for a wife
I have a special kind of disgust for parents who don't teach their kids their mother tongue and only speak to them in english
Which era of European history fascinates you most?
Like anything in social media, suddenly everyone is an expert in the subject. I’m a trained classical philologist whose mission is to make the classical languages of Latin and Greek more accessible. So I say this with respect. I haven’t read Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s epics. Nor will I ever because I prefer to read them in the Greek. This is why I encourage everyone to study the classical languages themselves, so they have direct access to the ancient world. Yet, even that is not entirely true. If I read the Greek, I’m reading a version of what Homer may have wrote. We have a textual tradition to consider; the version I may be reading will likely have scholars arguing about the integrity of the text. And they will be doing so within a horizontal structure of textual comparison fanning out over hundreds of years and thousands of miles. So stop taking everything so dang seriously. I’m just happy to see people talking about classical literature again.
It seems that 1400 is the cut off date for colonialism. Anything before that was completely fine, just another part of history. Anything after that was pure evil with no upsides
the arts are also overrun with rich kids studying on daddy’s money who seem to have absolutely zero empathy towards anyone of a lower class than themselves
I just don’t get religion or religious people. I don’t understand why religious belief is treated with respect by atheists. The whole things strikes me as something between a stupid LARP and mass psychosis. And smart otherwise rational people get affected too. Unsettling.
Anti-intellectualism runs deep in Indonesia. Just look at how Indonesians engage with media, arts, and politics. It’s a fucking shitshow and it’s a result of how people in power made sure that the masses remain uneducated and ignorant—jancok!
100 books?!? Americans can read that many! Here are 30 must-reads: 1- Iliad - Homer 2- Odyssey - Homer 3- Oedipus Rex - Sophocles 4- Medea - Euripides 5- History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides 6- The Republic - Plato 7- Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle 8- Aeneid - Virgil 9- The Bible - The Big Guy 10- Confessions - Augustine 11- Divine Comedy - Dante 12- The Prince - Machiavelli 13- Hamlet - Shakespeare 14- Macbeth - Shakespeare 15- King Lear - Shakespeare 16- Don Quixote - Cervantes 17- Leviathan - Hobbes 18- Second Treatise of Government - Locke 19- The Spirit of the Laws - Montesquieu 20- The Social Contract - Rousseau 21- The Wealth of Nations - Smith 22- On Liberty - Mill 23- Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels 24- On the Genealogy of Morals - Nietzsche 25- Pride and Prejudice - Austen 26- Moby Dick - Melville 27- Madame Bovary - Flaubert 28- Middlemarch - Eliot 29- War and Peace - Tolstoy 30- The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
I bet the chuds have a total of zero opinions on the other foundational epic of 'western society'
The fact that you can now graduate from many English programs without once studying Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer tells you everything you need to know about modern academia.
The fact that you can now graduate from many English programs without once studying Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer tells you everything you need to know about modern academia.
No. Starting with Homeric Greek is stupid and will perpetually cripple your knowledge of Greek.
