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Epicurius posted:The earliest desciption of a Christian religious ceremony, btw, comes from Justin Martyr, who was executed in 165. Incorrect, the Didache is probably a bit earlier. Like end of first century, version we have like 150-ish.
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feedmegin posted:Lovely, but over here at least, 'student' tends to mean someone who goes to a university. This is a school for children. Comparing what 11 year olds were taught back then to what a 19 year old learns at the University of York today seems even more of a stretch! Why do you think the school was exactly Like it is today 1300 years ago
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euphronius posted:Why do you think the school was exactly There are records from schools over 3000 years ago and the students are complaining about poor food, unfair grades, future career prospects and having to pay expensive bribes to their teachers.
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The bad tweet was bad for several reasons, but not because York wasn't a centre of learning in the early medieval period. This dude for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcuin, educated at the cathedral school in York and went on to kickstart the Carolingian renaissance.
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Twitter < York Medieval era < Now Education > No education
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Mr Enderby posted:modern students should study like 9th century ones
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HEY GUNS posted:i have. now what. time to go even further back and sit at the feet of a philosopher as he describes how beans are the ultimate, and indeed, only evil in this world
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I'd rather go back in time and explain to ancient Romans the concept of Boltzmann Brains
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Libluini posted:I'd rather go back in time and explain to ancient Romans the concept of Boltzmann Brains If they were familiar with the theories of Democritus and Lucretius, I think they could get the basics of it-- atoms moving randomly through space and briefly forming living conscious entities. Maybe they'd have more trouble with the idea that the brain is the basis of consciousness.
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Roman glass posting, including a neat fish. https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/1279892117872095241
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Jazerus posted:time to go even further back and sit at the feet of a philosopher as he describes how beans are the ultimate, and indeed, only evil in this world I've read one theory about that. There's a genetic condition called Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, or G6PDD, which is somewhat common in Mediterranean men and can cause hemolytic anemia. One of the things that can trigger the anemia in people with the condition is fava beans, which would have been the bean that Pythagoras was forbidding.
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Grand Fromage posted:Roman glass posting, including a neat fish. That ribbon cup is rad as hell.
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Angry Lobster posted:That ribbon cup is rad as hell. I'm a little irritated at the article linked, though. >If it looks so similar to modern glassware, how do we tell it's from Ancient Rome? Hell if we're telling you which dating methods we used, sucker
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Epicurius posted:I've read one theory about that. There's a genetic condition called Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, or G6PDD, which is somewhat common in Mediterranean men and can cause hemolytic anemia. One of the things that can trigger the anemia in people with the condition is fava beans, which would have been the bean that Pythagoras was forbidding. These posts discuss a few of the proposed explanations and also criticize the medical one you cite: http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2016/11/pythagoras-and-beans-1-hands-off-beans.html http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2016/12/pythagoras-and-beans-2-why-ban-beans.html
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Don Gato posted:As a native spanish speaker, it's somewhat difficult for me to understand someone speaking Italian but if it's written down I have very little trouble understanding it. I also can understand Brazilian Portuguese due to a combination of similarity and exposure, but continental Portuguese is like some kind of weird cipher that is almost, but not quite, impossible for me to understand. Speaking native french it’s really easy to read spanish and to understand certain people but spanish speakers are mostly lost at french, which is interesting to me. The easiest to understand I’ve heard are colombians Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Jul 7, 2020 |
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DACK FAYDEN posted:While this is true, you forgot "the number zero", meaning we don't have to go any further than first grade to prove that tweet is idiocy produced by a blithering moron. Zero hadn't even spread to Arabic in 800 (it took another decade according to Wikipedia), let alone the other side of the continent. Eh, zero is overrated. I'd say it actually has very little value. Approaching nothing, even.
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I tried to think of a good zero pun but could naught.
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It's plane that I Mostel p you then.
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"'The Effects of Binge-Drinking on Efforts to Hellenize the Indus River Valley' is not a valid thesis. Please see me at your earliest convenience."
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Jul 7, 2020 11:19
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Julius Caesar should've been played by the dude who played Brutus in Rome
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I heard someone say on a podcast that Ciaran Hinds has resting dictator face and it was a perfect description. He was great. We don't actually have any unambiguously identified contemporary portraits of Caesar. There's one that's thought to be plus some posthumous ones. He's the biggest figure in Roman history where we can't be certain we know what he looked like.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Julius Caesar should've been played by the dude who played Brutus in Rome  But yeah I don't think the pic from that meme is even Julius? Like it doesn't look particularly like the ones wikipedia says are him   With GF's same caveat of course.
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These two Caesars look like the same person to me. I think they only disagree on the tip of the nose and the shape of the brow a bit.
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Oh yeah caveat Hinds was really good as the role was but he didn't fit my mental image of Caesar. e: I really liked the guy who played aging Sulla in the miniseries that had Christopher Walken as Cato.
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did Caesar keep his reputation for being foppish and concerned with his looks even later in his career, or was that just him as a young man?
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Does anyone have a good read about the ancient indian republics?
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The worst casting in the show Rome was probably Cato, who looked like he was 70 when the character was in his 40s.
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Epicurius posted:The worst casting in the show Rome was probably Cato, who looked like he was 70 when the character was in his 40s. this is perfectly in the spirit of cato's self image. he was 70 his entire life
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cheetah7071 posted:did Caesar keep his reputation for being foppish and concerned with his looks even later in his career, or was that just him as a young man? Suetonius says that he hated being bald and wore his laurels, or a comb-over, at all times; also that people joked he invaded Britain because he heard there were pearls there. So he definitely kept a reputation for vanity into his maturity. e: oh yeah, and Plutarch(?) claims he wore tall red boots which he claimed were the prerogative of his ancestors the kings of Alba Longa skasion fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Jul 7, 2020 |
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PittTheElder posted:
There's really no reason to believe either of those are Julius Caesar. For one thing they look nothing like each other. I don't think there are any positively identified Julius Caesar statues. People just take random statues of who knows who and say that it's Caesar for publicity.
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Pompey's casting I really didn't like. The dude died at 57 but the actor who played him was already 61 portraying Pompey a decade+ prior to his death. It made him look way more washed up and straight creepy compared to Caesar than he needed to. I watched it the first time with people who basically knew none of the characters at all except Caesar, and they couldn't understand why anyone gave a poo poo about the fat creepy old man making out with Caesar's hot daughter or how those two men could've been friends or colleagues.
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Jazerus posted:this is perfectly in the spirit of cato's self image. he was 70 his entire life Don't be mean to poor Cato.The guy was at one point, young, well respected, and really seen as an up and comer. But the show did have a definite pro-Caesar bias, where his enemies were (with both Cato and as just mentioned, Pompey), depicted as older and stodgier than they were.
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Here’s what Caesar looked like.  The traditional identification of statuary as depicting him is not arbitrary, but based on perceived likeness to these definitely authentic portraits (as well as to textual descriptions like that of Suetonius). Complicating the issue is that there’s no reason why any two statues of the same guy should look exactly like each other. Sculpture is not photography (though the same person can photograph pretty differently at different times and places anyway). Who knows if, when and how those two sculptors saw the man himself?
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