ur first time summoning Poseidon
When you nail the incantation on the first try but weren’t ready for the scale of the response. The painterly texture and epic scale sell...
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Select all squares with the Ship of Theseus
Google’s reCAPTCHA meets one of philosophy’s oldest paradoxes. How do you verify you’re not a robot when you can’t even verify if a ship is...
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When you go out to fight for independence but forgot to lock up the slaves
A classic piece of historical irony — the American revolutionaries fought for “independence” while keeping human beings in chains. The image shows 18th-century colonial soldiers...
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Tumblr thread: Victorian era outside the UK energy
Classic Tumblr thread taking the “Victorian era” label and applying it everywhere else to show how Eurocentric our historical framing is. The thread starts by...
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Caligula Was A Good Emperor
Gorgocutie says: Crime documentary format meets Roman history, and it fits way too well. Caligula started his reign in 37 AD as a popular, reform-minded...
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Perseus Is A Terrible Detective
Gorgocutie says: My guy Perseus is out here nailing "Have You Seen Me?" posters for Medusa while casually strolling past a whole courtyard of stone...
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Bro There Is No Hoes Here
Gorgocutie says: My guy really showed up to the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 expecting to pull and got hit with the reality check of...
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Ancient Greeks had terrible naming sense
Gorgocutie says: Someone at a Troy screening really groaned "Oh, he gets hit in his ACHILLES heel? COME ON" as if the Iliad wasn’t the...
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UncategorisedVlad the Impaler: 50,000 reasons your “Dracula” Halloween costume missed the point
The duality of Vlad III, Voivode of Wallachia. Left side: the man himself. Ambras Castle portrait, 16th century. Pearled princely cap, scepter in hand, mustache...
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“You go to certain death.” “All death is certain.” — Stoicism before the charge
The heaviest line in Kingdom of Heaven, and it hits every time. Top panel: Balian’s squire staring down a Crusader army, seeing only the arrow...
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Socrates chose the harder path: annoying politicians over domestic bliss
Behold, the Gadfly of Athens in his natural habitat. While Xanthippe and the kids are out here offering burgers and stability, Socrates is locked in...
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Aeschylus killed by a tortoise dropped by an eagle
In 458 BC, Aeschylus — the father of Greek tragedy, author of the Oresteia, the man who basically invented dramatic dialogue — was killed by...