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Why does she keep doing this to us? Why does she keep doing this to *herself*?
'Gladiator II' is "total Hollywood bullshit", says top historian nme.com/news/film/gladiator-…
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#KAOS nails it with how confused the gods are. Totally bamboozled and scared. They sort of understand their side of the universe but none of the mortal side, communicating with fear since they don’t know how else to, and the primordial side makes no sense to anyone. Phenomenal.
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1) Elon’s tweet was obvious rage-bait for snarky “woke humanists” to scold him and look like know-it-alls to Western Civ Twitter. It wasn’t worth engaging with
2) us embracing Elon is like evangelicals promoting Kanye. It’s short-sighted and stinks of desperation
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Translating early letters Cicero wrote is so funny like he’s over here being like, I’m thinking about helping defend my coworker, Cataline so that we can be friends, I think the prosecutor, CLODIUS PULCHER, will work with me like !!!! Babe you have No Idea what’s coming!!!!
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athena is a shapeshifting immortal and also fictional, hope this helps
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because content and structure are not separate things. this is the reason one reads the Iliad rather than a summary of the Trojan War and list of dramatis personae
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I am very sorry to tell you, but the rest of my art is not fine. My lived experience sadly informs all my art, whether it is obvious at first glance or not, so my whole portfolio reeks with the taint of non-conformity. For your own moral purity, I suggest averting your eyes.
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guy commissioning a vase in 1300 bc: “i want a horse on the side of it. can you do that?”
vase painter: “yeah don’t sweat it bro. I got you”
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A really very weird thing about popular classics discourse is how much people underrate the artistry of the Romans. Roman art and literature has had just as much influence on modern people as Greek (if not MORE)
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i find new atheist "all religion is sky daddy fairy tales" types really annoying, mostly bc they render any discussion of a huge swathe of human endeavor impossible, and also totally ignore the nuances of the histories/cultures/hegemonies of different faiths
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If you're looking for something fantastic to read this summer, I've made a book list for @Shepherd_books, The Best Books On Amazing Ancient Women By Amazing Modern Women featuring @bettanyhughes, Sarah B Pomeroy, Emma Southon, @HonorCargillM & @amayor 📚: shepherd.com/best-books/amaz…
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Still processing this news--thrilled to have been elected Oxford Professor of Poetry. And what an honor to have been running (or standing?) alongside such a terrific short list of poets I admire--@donpatersonpoet , @christianbok , and Mark Ford. Thanks to all who participated!
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The top 6 degree subjects held in the House of Commons are: politics, history, law, economics, philosophy, and English.
The fact that they want to stop more people studying many of those same subjects tells you how important they really are.
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