I Read the Odyssey in the Original Greek. No Idea What It Says.
O Tanya shares a valuable lesson: reading The Odyssey in the original Greek is pointless if you don’t actually know Greek. The tweet: “i actually...
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Something Feminine About a Man Using Spreadsheets
@ratlimit says: “Something feminine about a man using spreadsheets. You were meant to trade grain in ancient Sumeria.” “You’ll never guess what they used to...
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When Your Holy Book Mentions Them But Theirs Doesn’t Mention You
+ Theological rock-paper-scissors nobody asked for. + The meme uses the classic Good Place reaction format to compare how three major religions describe each other...
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The 1997 Odyssey: Vanessa Williams Was Calypso and People Lost Their Minds
Before Christopher Nolan there was Armand Assante, and before IMAX there was NBC’s Sunday night television budget. The 1997 “The Odyssey” miniseries was a legendary...
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There Is Two Moods While Reading Roman History
\n\nGorgocutie’s Breakdown:\n \nThere is two moods while reading Roman history \u2014 and both are correct.\n \nMood one is awe. You look at the aqueducts, the...
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I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
On this day in 1883 Nikos Kazantzakis was born. He was Greece’s most prolific writer and he remains one of the most famous Greek citizens...
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Who Killed Homer?
Homer is Dead “Who Killed Homer?” The Demise of Classical Education and The Recovery of Greek Wisdom, by Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath “Homer...
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Thin enough to be used as a bookmark
Text of tweet: CAN WE ALL TAKE A MOMENT TO APPRECIATE MY MY MOTHER USING A KINDLE AS A BOOKMARK Image: A physical book with...
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It's not that I can't read all the books I already have, it's that
It’s not that I can’t read all the books I already have, it’s that once a reader finishes all the books in their possession, they transcend...
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Jules Verne
Where would Science Fiction be without the works of Jules Verne? To name but a few of his accomplishments would be an insult, but that’s...
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Napoleon's Kindle: See the Miniaturized Traveling Library He
Every piece of technology has a precedent. Most have several different types of precedents. You've probably used (and may well own) an eBook reader, for...
