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(ID: a Latin Duolingo sentence that translates to 'Marcus is half-asleep or stupid')

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actually this is maybe the most haunting curse tablet from bath

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You can always find me taking the hand of Marduk

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never thought i'd relate to a 4000yo greek prince but y'know, when telemachus said "i am not adept at subtle conversation" i felt that

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don't ever let anyone tell you your degree is useless! for example: you might use your 7 lb. latin textbook as a tofu press.

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the bacchic mysteries are mysteries TO YOU. i know what's in them tho

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Etruscan Dancers. Galleria Tornabuoni. Firenze, Italia. photo: germana

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everyone be quiet it's squish his bald head sunday wednesday

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I think one of the easiest ways for me to mistrust a book and all it’s saying is to see how wrong it gets history about Jews.

This came about because I’m reading a book on indigenous activism and theory and it’s really good!

Too bad I can’t trust anything about it because I’m their little “history of colonialism” section they went “the three largest religions of the world-Christianity, Islam, and Judaism (collectively called the Abrahamic religions”.

Bestie. Jews are .2% of the global population. If you’d done a basic google search it would’ve told you the largest religious groups are Christianity, Islam, irreligion, Hinduism, and Buddhism, each of which have over 5% of the global population as adherents. It takes about five seconds to check that and see if you’re being accurate.

If your book is trying to be a reputable source of information and you can’t even put 5 seconds of effort into basic factual double-checking, you are not worthy of my trust about anything else you say.

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I see this constantly. Respected sources saying just factually incorrect things, like confidently getting Yom Kippur and Tisha Ba’av mixed up, or admitting in one breath that the sources for Jewish life in a particular time and place were nil to none, and then in the next line asserting that *all* Jewish people were doing a certain job because the only few sources mentioned two individuals in an economic record. One of my favorites was a text book asserting that the BC/AD dating system was “Judeo-Christian” as if there is anything judeo about the birth of Jesus while the Hebrew calendar is right there. It’s odd how “except for Jews” or “Jews don’t count” extends to academic integrity and passes easily through editing and peer review processes

I think one of the easiest ways for me to mistrust a book and all it’s saying is to see how wrong it gets history about Jews.

This came about because I’m reading a book on indigenous activism and theory and it’s really good!

Too bad I can’t trust anything about it because I’m their little “history of colonialism” section they went “the three largest religions of the world-Christianity, Islam, and Judaism (collectively called the Abrahamic religions”.

Bestie. Jews are .2% of the global population. If you’d done a basic google search it would’ve told you the largest religious groups are Christianity, Islam, irreligion, Hinduism, and Buddhism, each of which have over 5% of the global population as adherents. It takes about five seconds to check that and see if you’re being accurate.

If your book is trying to be a reputable source of information and you can’t even put 5 seconds of effort into basic factual double-checking, you are not worthy of my trust about anything else you say.

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confusing Odysseus and Orpheus is like confusing a liar and a lyre. send post

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small and waifish roman senator thrown off the tarpeian rock, glides to safety with massively oversized toga

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I remember one of my favorite professors saying that the way he read the iliad changed when he became a parent and I think about that a lot

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Throwback to when Diomedes absolutely DESTROYED two gods in the Trojan war

(Might tweak his design)

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Bust of Commodus as Hercules. Capitoline Museums, Rome.

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they diagnosed me with i love you and it’s incurable

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The real problem with the classics corner of tumblr is that it's deeply unbalanced. There are not enough hellenists going insane over random ancient greek politicians. The latinists are giving it their all and being completely unhinged on main and we aren't matching their energy. This simply cannot stand.