Polybius
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@ThePolybius1 @Peter_Nimitz Idk about Africa but for Italy at least the Byzantine reconquest was very devastating for the peninsular.
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The Roman gentry of Africa (modern Tunisia) survived through both the Vandal & Byzantine periods. It wasn't until the 11th century that they were fully swept away in an act of spite by the Fatimids.
Nemets@Peter_Nimitz
While Iran’s high nobility lost power to the Arabs, the local gentry remained Persian. They & their descendants would preserve, synthesize, and advance Persianate culture. By contrast the old Roman gentry of Levant & Egypt seems to have been wiped out in the 602-628 bloodletting.
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@DezideriusXVIII Failed badly and was executed by his own people
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Polybius รีทวีตแล้ว
Here’s your reminder that the bimodal differences between the sexes can only exist because sex is binary.
A bimodal distribution has two modes and implies two groups being compared. Two separate distributions of a given trait. One for males. One for females.
Toren 🇮🇪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@TorenTYlfa
@zaelefty Here's your reminder that sex is bimodal, not binary
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Polybius รีทวีตแล้ว
Herodotus wrote how the Athenians reassured Sparta they wouldn’t defect to the Persian side by invoking their shared Greek blood, language, religion & customs.
But liberals will still look you in the eye and say nationalism just magically appeared one day in 1848.
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@ThePolybius1 @iosif_lazaridis We learned it at school from gymnasium to lyceum.
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The Greeks did not single out Athena for her eye color in their art. γλαυκῶπις was not thought of as reflecting her eye color.
Pausanias, visiting the Acropolis, wrote:
τὸ δὲ ἄγαλμα ὁρῶν τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς γλαυκοὺς ἔχον τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς Λιβύων τὸν μῦθον ὄντα εὕρισκον
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Homer Pavlos@HomerPavlos
The sacred bird of Athena is called the "Glauka" (Little Owl). One of the epithets of the Goddess Athena was "γλαυκώπις" (glaukopis), meaning "bright-eyed" or "owl-eyed" because of her sparkling blue eyes. Chris Nolan has disrespected us Greeks.
@OrthoAthletics @ParvumPrincipi @RomeInTheEast I hope you mean the Greek Macedonia, not the fake Macedonia
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@ParvumPrincipi @RomeInTheEast There's an Orthodox elder who says he's actually buried in Macedonia and that they will find his tomb at will have fragrance....
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Alexander The Great has always been in Greece.
New York Post@nypost
Officials unveil ancient tomb linked to Alexander the Great trib.al/v39LAig
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@AtlanteanKang @blaugers Tem algum livro de outro autor que possa me recomendar?
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Isso das estátuas com essas colorações horríveis é literalmente um psyops da Mary Beard e sua turma de acadêmicos pra atacar a juventude de direita.
E eu não estou nem brincando.
bob's burgers urbanist 🐿️@yhdistyminen
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@RolloRouen After Caracalla, everyone born in the Roman Empire became a Roman Citizen, greek was spoken by the aristocracy way before the fall as well so one could say greek is a Roman language too
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There's no degree to which Byzantium was *more* civilizationally Roman than the countries who continued to speak Latin to this very day.
You could argue that the east was never really "Roman" to begin with, in a cultural sense!
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@iosif_lazaridis I'm asking because I'm interested in learning it
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@iosif_lazaridis Do you know ancient greek? If so, how did you learn it?
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@NemiGorgoneion @iosif_lazaridis He said it didn't survive from the arabs
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@iosif_lazaridis You don't even understand the basic use of "and" which conglomerate diverse elements without exclude them: "arabic translations and byzantine translations", you correct them as if those elements were either a disjunction or exclude themselves... Yet you "correct" a translation.
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Taking a red pen to Emily Wilson's Odyssey Introduction and to her first page.
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@joyl1ght @Tom_Rowsell Do you know about the g factor? Yes, it is a measure of general intelligence
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@Tom_Rowsell IQ isn’t a measure of general intelligence, more so of analytical ability. Have you taken an IQ test yourself?
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@moaurgat @Tom_Rowsell This could be easily explained away by selective migration to be fair
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@Tom_Rowsell Btw, people of S. Italian descent (among the closest modern pops to the ancient Greeks genetically) tend to do quite well economically in the US. It's therefore hard to believe that, once integrated into similar environments, they wouldn't perform similarly on IQ tests to N Euros
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Polybius รีทวีตแล้ว
Movies about Ancient Greece and Rome used to be made to entertain the chuds, and so academic historians would make thousands of posts criticizing the films’ inaccuracies. Now movies about Ancient Greece and Rome are made to own the chuds, and so academic historians make thousands of posts defending the films’ inaccuracies.
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@RomeInTheEast @Badopinions4 Constantinian Empire would be more accurate as Rome come from Romulus and Constantinople comes from Constantine, either way it's bad
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@Badopinions4 I won’t go that far. Some people use the term Byzantine and have good intentions. To them it means Eastern Roman but they like that term.
Some use it with bad intentions, like this fellow.
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The Eastern Roman Empire was not a successor state. It was a direct and uninterrupted continuation of the Roman state. Hope that clears it up.
Gary@Gary_Pilled
@Byzness Imagine claiming the Byzantines (Greeks) were the true Roman successor state when it was Charlemagne and later the HRE.
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@ThePolybius1 @CrazyFenaker @Noahpinion Their race is pretty irrelevant, especially for the gods & their progeny.
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Ironically, there is at least one ancient Greek mythological figure who was explicitly black -- Andromeda -- and I've never seen her depicted as black in movies
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