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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 1d

That's basically our entire project here at BoAT. Take our...uh, take on Plato, for instance. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

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carmine leguzio @baldo.bsky.social · 1d

im a big fan of reading the canon for the opposite reason of marble statues guys. Instead of "inheriting the wisdom of the ancients" it kinda just shows you how sometimes (but not always) rlly old dead people are dumber than dogshit. There's no one steering this ship so we may as well man the helm

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 2d

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 2d

dactylic hexameter gets everybody on the floor

Screengrab of a tumblr post by thoodleoo: “dude you should have been at the club last night it was insane. the dj was playing the lament and funeral of hector from the iliad and everyone was beating their breasts and tearing open their garments. at the end we all built up a funeral pyre in the middle of the dance floor and set it aflame. we were all feeling the inherent human connection through millennia old poetry, it was wild”

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 5d

real Aristophanes heads know

Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 5d

they brek-ek-ek-ek upon us

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 5d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 5d

they brek-ek-ek-ek upon us

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 5d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 6d

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 7d

just thinking about a ruling class that's been fed censored art and taught to believe it is superior to all the others for no reason

Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 9d

NEW EPISODE! #icymi, our second (of three) episodes on Plato's Republic dropped last night. It covers the back half of Republic, exploring Plato's theory of forms and the famous allegory of the cave. Available now wherever you get podcasts! #philosophy #booksky #podcasts

Photo of a masculine figure in silhouette standing at the opening of a cave. There is water on the floor of the cave which partially reflects him. Caption reads: EPISODE 40: Plato, The Republic, Part 2: Out of the Cave

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 9d

NEW EPISODE! #icymi, our second (of three) episodes on Plato's Republic dropped last night. It covers the back half of Republic, exploring Plato's theory of forms and the famous allegory of the cave. Available now wherever you get podcasts! #philosophy #booksky #podcasts

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 9d

NEW EPISODE! #icymi, our second (of three) episodes on Plato's Republic dropped last night. It covers the back half of Republic, exploring Plato's theory of forms and the famous allegory of the cave. Available now wherever you get podcasts! #philosophy #booksky #podcasts

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 10d

this is a good podcast episode, but it's not THE good podcast episode, if you know what I mean #philosophy #booksky

Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 10d

NEW EPISODE! We continue our trilogy on Plato's Republic with an episode exploring the latter half of the work, which includes philosophical ideas like universal forms, the nature of knowledge, and the Good (capital G), as well as Plato's dissection of the five types of states... #booksky #podcasts

Diagram of the scene described in Plato's allegory of the cave, with a superimposed text bubble from one of the prisoners watching the shadows. He asks "chat is this real"

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 10d

... and the examination of whether anyone who doesn't live in Plato's ideal state, where there are no plays, no desserts, and no private property, can ever be truly free and happy. Listen now on Spotify or wherever podcasts are published! #classicsky #history open.spotify.com/episode/4rMh...

Episode 40 – Plato, The Republic, Part 2 – Out of the Cave

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 10d

NEW EPISODE! We continue our trilogy on Plato's Republic with an episode exploring the latter half of the work, which includes philosophical ideas like universal forms, the nature of knowledge, and the Good (capital G), as well as Plato's dissection of the five types of states... #booksky #podcasts

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 11d

Montresor, editor extraordinaire, has arrived to deal with the late episode issue.

Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 11d

editor literally breathing down my neck today #caturday #proofofcat

A devastatingly handsome tuxedo cat with yellow eyes and a yellow collar perches on the back of a yellow velvet office chair. Some lady's shoulder (she is wearing a black sweatshirt) is visible on the right-hand side of the photo

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 11d

editor literally breathing down my neck today #caturday #proofofcat

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 12d

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 17d

Ezracles: It is important for intellectuals to say what is most useful.
Socrates: But is that true?
Ezracles: Certainly I believe it to be true Socrates.
Socrates: But how can I tell you are not just saying that because you think it useful to do so?

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 17d

There’s a sick kid in the house; today’s episode is postponed until Tuesday!

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 21d

Chotiner: so you sat out most of the war because your general took your slavewoman.

Achilles: I proved my point. They couldn’t manage without me.

C: do you think that makes you look better or worse?

A: Well, I did’t kill him. And he brought her back.

C: son of Peleus, thank you for your time.

Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 21d

Chotiner: So you chose to kill your slavewomen as well as the suitors who had taken over your home. Why?

Odysseus: Well, I was in a frenzy understandably, plus they had probably slept with the suitors.

C: Ah. And as slaves did they do this voluntarily?

O: I didn’t ask because

C: They were dead?

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 22d

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 21d

this actually depicts the world’s first game of Battleship.

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 21d

Expert here: We were not, in fact, ever puzzled. It has been and always will be a writing tablet. www.indy100.com/news/ancient...

'Laptop' spotted in Ancient Greek statue leaving experts puzzled

An ancient Greek statue of a woman seemingly using a laptop has sparked time travel theories online. "Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant" is a 37-inch marble statue created around 1...

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 27d

Really cannot recommend Patrick Wyman's podcast Tides of History enough. In addition to pointing me at a ton of great resources for my own work, it's also been useful for both escapism and resetting one's perspective on what we're all living through. It's a Wondery show; easy to find.

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 27d

Something the man @mikeduncan.bsky.social will tell you at great and entertaining length is how long it takes for revolts to get off the ground, how often they fail, and how hard it is to predict exactly when they’ll pop off. Slowly and then all at once is a good rule.

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 28d

SPILL TEA, O MUSE, 'BOUT ACHILLES FLIPPING HIS SHIT

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 28d

Four-panel comic from Zach Smith of SMBC Comics. Panel 1: James Joyce clutches a copy of ULYSSES, declaring "I, James Joyce, wrote the most widely cited book that nobody has actually read!" Panel 2: Stephen Hawking, seated behind him with a copy of A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME on his lap, declares, "Nonsense! I, Stephen Hawking, have the most widely cited book that nobody has actually read." Panel 3: Immanuel Kant, bewigged and grouchy, appears behind Joyce and Hawking. "Bah!" he says. "I, Immanuel Kant, have the most widely--" He is cut off by a speech bubble in all caps: "HA. HA. HA." Panel 4: The Bible, enormous and floating in the air, looms over Kant, Hawking, and Joyce. "AMATEURS," it says.

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 29d

"Gimme the FDR special, please."

Helen, Tina's Boob Punch @tinavstammy.bsky.social · 29d

Progressive taxation including high marginal rates, with a minimum percentage of the yield going to help people: health care, education, safe water and food, low- to no-cost housing, disaster relief, etc.

I'd need help working out the numbers, but, yeah. That.

Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 29d

Scenario: You are the absolute ruler of the world for a few days, and you get to pass one permanent law that will be enforced for all time.

What would it be? 🤔🤔🤔

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