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Fun Rome fact: Roman clans could retire first names like jersey numbers. The most famous example of this is when the Antonii retired the name “Marcus” after Mark Antony died
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When you’ve DEFINITELY read the Iliad and not just seen adaptations/forum posts online
28 Feb 2025
The proud savage honor of the early Greeks is so alien to the overdomesticated modern brain that many think this is even a debatable question
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1 Mar 2025
I don’t know how to stress how bad a reading of these characters this is. The only ways to think the Iliad is uncritically pro-Achilles is:
1. You’ve never read it
2. You literally cannot read
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This is NOT how the Odyssey ends. It doesn’t end with the reconciliation of Odysseus and Penelope either.
It ends with Odysseus waging war on his citizens who’ve risen up against him for killing their next generation of nobles, and the gods stopping him before he goes into exile
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No one talks about this ending, because it’s uglier than the reconciliation. The text can be misogynistic, for sure, but this critique is flat and obscures just *how many* people Odysseus was planning to slaughter on his return, and how indiscriminately
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Ship of Theses retweeted
7 Nov 2024
My last post for the foreseeable future:
If the Biden administration really wants to send the message that they’re different from the incoming administration, now would be the perfect time to impose sanctions on Israel with minimal electoral implications
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Ship of Theses retweeted
31 Oct 2024
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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23 Oct 2024
It honestly baffles me how everyone recognizes how stupid a cluster of AI writing looks in a Twitter comment section but can’t logically extend that to a pile of student essays.
23 Oct 2024
I wrote about ChatGPT, and whether colleges with honor codes are having an easier time stemming AI cheating than other institutions. In some cases, the answer seems to be yes, but their success has as much to do with money and resources as it does with integrity or culture. 🧵
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Ship of Theses retweeted
2 Sep 2024
#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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Ship of Theses retweeted
27 Aug 2024
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
26 Aug 2024
One of the most well-known humans, listened to and respected by millions, is recommending people read Homer. Is there something not to celebrate here? More people should read Homer. Every new person reading Homer is good.
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Ship of Theses retweeted
17 Jul 2024
Historians NEED to start clamping down on the idea that the main reason life expectancy in the past was lower because of infant mortality. 🧵
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31 Mar 2024
Ever wonder why people say Jesus rose three days later despite dying on Friday?
Many ancient societies count inclusively, so when you count down to an event, count *both* the day you are on AND the day the event happens. Died on Friday (1), Saturday (2), rises on Sunday (3).
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19 Feb 2024
When were straight people invented?
A thread about History & Pride
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22 Feb 2024
I’m sorry. Saying poor people historically didn’t have sex is INSANE. They’ve more or less always gotten married, and cheap brothels have been a thing as long as we know. People had sex.
21 Feb 2024
"Hoeflation" is a ridiculous idea if you've ever cracked a book about history
It has NEVER been easier for the average guy to have consequence free sex w/women
Not that a decent guy should CARE what the price of "hoes" is anyway.
I refuse to take guys who use the term seriously1/
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22 Feb 2024
“Hoeflation” is also (needless to say) a nonsense incel concept based on the premise that there should be a woman matched to each man of every rank, which is of course, also nonsense
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Ship of Theses retweeted
19 Feb 2024
When were straight people invented?
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19 Feb 2024
When were straight people invented?
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19 Feb 2024
By the same logic, heterosexuals are no more ancient or “traditional” than queer folks. Like white people, they read their hegemony back into history, but with no intellectual justification. The world changes, and us with it. Or, as a great Greek philosopher once said:
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So, next time some bigot uses “history” as a cudgel, don’t stoop to their level. You don’t need it to justify your life & love, and it isn’t theirs to claim anyway. The past may influence us, but never constrain a future which is bright & joyous. Or — to use an old synonym — gay.
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