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I accepted an offer to go back to school for a classics major. Is the classics field ready for Y2K/cyber/alt rock culture?
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Temperate House
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Temperate House
@TemperateHouse
I’ve got a Loeb subscription, and I’m not afraid to use it.
Thermopylae Katılım Nisan 2024
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@TemperateHouse Wow. Yes, let's talk very soon about how best to get this going.
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I have converted all of @AntigoneJournal into markdowns for Obsidian, so it is easier to search and reference notes offline. There are a few parser inconsistencies (since we are working with rendered HTML instead of WP tags), but I am pretty happy with it.
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@AntigoneJournal etc, etc, the hardest part here is the design of UI and image preparation (thumbnails, midsize, and original for those who wants to download those).
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@TemperateHouse V. interesting, thank you. We're keen to find a way to pull all of the images on the website into one large searchable gallery, where each image pulls up its caption.
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@AntigoneJournal > we may advertise for a position
we should talk ;)
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This looks amazing, although we need some induction as to what some of this means! Certainly the site would profit from better indexing and cross-reference, and ideally a picture gallery of all images with their original captions. (By the bye, we may advertise for a position for someone to do this work, and perhaps make moves towards transferring all of the site off a platform and onto its own terms.)
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@AntigoneJournal Each image is mapped to an article offline to a directory with images, if this is what you mean? For example:
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@TemperateHouse Intriguing! Remarkable work. In what format do the captions coexist with your images?
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@AntigoneJournal @brunellus @MichaelLoda There are alternatives, just need to explore, decide which is the best and migrate :) also, I keep a local backup of all html+images just in case, probably not a huge lift to convert them into markdown or something
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To my amazement I was able to make this work, for now. What I will need soon, it seems, is an automatic converter of all classic block texts to custom html. And yes, not using WordPress is not a luxury available to a website that has published 500+ pages via that platform already!
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A question for anyone who properly understands @WordPress, please: the "classic block" feature is now hidden and unavailable, which is very bad news. We need to find another route to indent a whole block of text, not just the first line. This is how we quote text, ancient and modern. (The "quote" block, with its vertical line to the left, is useless and ugly.) Any expertise very welcome!
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@AntigoneJournal Are there more obtainable recommendations? Looks like these editions are gone for good :(
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Res Romanae (Ed. Coleridge, 1896)
Res Graecae (Ed. Coleridge, 1898)
If read back to back, you will certainly ascend to a very rare level of knowledge, to which most of what academics offer is secondary. The books are cheap, and in electronic form all available freely.
Have fun!
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OK here we are, and here are the rules. Books that:
- will give you more knowledge if read in full than the average academic has
- can be had cheaply in 2nd hand
- give the core grounding for any more specific/nuanced knowledge.
If you like this we have another ten in the wings:
Antigone Journal@AntigoneJournal
Tip from the top (i.e. mid-tier normality): you can buy yourself five books for under £30/$40 total, which, if you read them fully, would give you a more solid grounding in the Greek and Roman world than the majority of people employed to teach the subject or steward its museums.
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Restored this super useful 1959 Ancient, Medieval & Modern History reference book found @ Goodwill.
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Thank you for the recommendations! @AntigoneJournal
Antigone Journal@AntigoneJournal
A short thread of some photos, if of interest. 1. Wideshot of the Library. 2. Wideshot of the Latin Room. 3. Desk and mantelpiece (mostly 17th-19th-century editions of Latin and Greek) 4. Rotating bookcase (Latin texts), guarded by Cali.
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@theo_nash @Athens_Stranger You should see my bio on X🙃
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@Athens_Stranger Plenty of people who don’t know Greek own Loebs, while no one who does brags about using them.
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I’m old enough to remember a time when Loebs were looked down on as options for those who didn’t have enough Greek to use a proper critical edition.
Athenian Stranger@Athens_Stranger
@GreekWord @BulkingtonBooks The Loebs were brought to class daily, but based on the very clear seriousness with which the thought in Homer was explored by the materials I included, why do you need me to spell that out for you?
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@renegadesilicon Any advice on sourcing quality frankincense and myrrh?
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One part of my research into things from the Neolithic and Bronze through Hellenic ages is the trade and use of both frankincense and myrrh.
Shown here is Royal Green Hojari frankincense from Oman along with a large lump of Kua myrrh from Socotra Island in Yemen. I’ve tried about a half dozen varieties of each type.
It’s actually a very fun and easy way of bringing this period of history alive in your own home; especially when reading or studying in the originals. Some glazed terracotta lamps are also an easy addition that really change the character of your home at night.
Would anyone be interested in some reviews of the different types and how to get started?
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@AntigoneJournal @SpencerKlavan David Butterfield and Roel Konijnendijk are my favourite Classical scholars, and I can only dream of doing a PhD with either of them.
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Butterfield is world-class, and at his best here
Stephen Blackwood@stephenblackwd
How Civilizations Die The Provost of @RalstonCollege David Butterfield—an astoundingly talented and courageous man—with @KonstantinKisin and @francisjfoster on the @triggerpod. A bracing conversation on the essential, indeed existential, question of our time. youtube.com/watch?v=XzWXCz…
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@AntigoneJournal was a major inspiration for this decision❤️
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I accepted an offer to go back to school for a classics major. Is the classics field ready for Y2K/cyber/alt rock culture?
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All the random people in LA I've chatted up so far say they'll vote for @spencerpratt and hope he wins. I haven't heard a single person say they'll vote otherwise. I am all for making LA a family friendly city.
Spencer Pratt@spencerpratt
If that addict on your street were your own son, what would you do? That is the defining question that guides my 5 step plan to fix the homelessness problem in LA. We *must* end this evil racket of corrupt politicians and NGOs who profit off the misery of these poor souls. They launder money and feed them more drugs, so they can keep their customers locked in this hell on our streets. We have a moral obligation from God to help them and make our city safe and clean for everyone. Karen Bass and Nithya Raman have forsaken this city. Time for real leadership. Time for real compassion.
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@PhilipDBunn That's the way, I got this old table in Goodwill for $20, it looked noble, so I got to restoring it and look at those inlays and mahogany, still work in progress but I am happy with it.
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Now that we’re moving out of the rental, I can finally get started on making my home office the way I want it to be. First step: thrift some furniture.
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Can we appreciate and admire Chinese philosophy with engineering problems - "just mend it yourself". Very Diogenes-y.
Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔@HistorianZhang
@writerofscratch If you try to bend the metal back down will the plug fit?
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