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Communist Thoughts posted:There's a fun phrase the ancient Historian relates that's essentially, "no matter how diligently you farm it doesn't compare to good weather, similarly, no matter how hard you work it doesn't compare to your boss thinking you're hot" lmao
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also, no matter how many not-ant creatures you find that digs for gold in that region, herodotus still claimed that the "ants" would hunt and eat camels
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Seems scarily carnivorous to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syNumVb2kUs If I remember right, the Old Persian for 'marmot' and 'mountain ant' sound very similar to your average confused foreigner and people actually have collected marmot gold dust in the Himalayas for generations. The best thing about Herodotus is he's more sceptical about the existence of the British isles than he is about marmot ants that can outrun specifically male camels. Let's compromise on 'Herodotus was as right as historians generally are'
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I love that shrieking thing. Thank you for the video!
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Shogi posted:Let's compromise on 'Herodotus was as right as historians generally are' yes, that's my point. he was full of it
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There are gliding snakes
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Inspector Hound posted:There are gliding snakes yeah thats why trying to say snakes are bees made me stop reading
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Herodotus clearly watched Raised By Wolves
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Ain't easy being the OG. We live in a fairly Thucydidean sphere and are much the worse for it
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yeah herodotus was keeping it fun and light and then mr serious war correspondent ruined everything
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the gauls did the same thing to quintus cicero and caesar is like "yeah they stole our roman tactics but hold my beer"
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what do you mean alesia? i don't even know where alesia is! nobody knows where alesia is!
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Real hurthling! posted:the gauls did the same thing to quintus cicero and caesar is like "yeah they stole our roman tactics but hold my cervisia"
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https://twitter.com/westernunion2k/status/1473405328813281281?s=21 https://twitter.com/hegelwcrmcheese/status/1473311057288605703?s=21
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She actually looks remarkably like Cromwell.
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Weka posted:She actually looks remarkably like Cromwell. Warts and all?
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as long as it's not followed by a half century of syphilitic stuarts it can't be the worst thing he's been around for
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Imagine being such a bad ruler people are begging for the loving Stuarts back.
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Charles I wasn't even the worst of the lot, his somehow substantively worse son got gloryhole revolutioned and there was still anne's bungling of the spanish succession after that, just an amazing family
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1) what’s the best translation of Don Quixote 2) is Don Quixote good to a 21st century American or is it only really good if you like 16th century Spain and think references you need to wiki the context for count as jokes
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I just read the Edith Grossman translation of DQ (so I could read along with the Overdue podcast) and had an absolute blast. It’s basically an incredibly silly romp that almost overstays its welcome.
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indigi posted:1) what’s the best translation of Don Quixote 2) is Don Quixote good to a 21st century American or is it only really good if you like 16th century Spain and think references you need to wiki the context for count as jokes There's a lotta fart jokes if that helps. Good ones.
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No idea which translation i read but it is good to 21st century tastes yes
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Benagain posted:There's a lotta fart jokes if that helps. Good ones. gently caress yeah that helps
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I preferred Candide tbh
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Pascallion posted:I just read the Edith Grossman translation of DQ (so I could read along with the Overdue podcast) and had an absolute blast. this is the translation I read too, it was really good e: think my favourite medieval Europe book was the decameron, that's got a lot of vulgar jokes in too
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I didn't read Don Quixote in English so can't say anything about translations but it was a great read and very funny. Absolutely recommend giving it a try.
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birdstrike posted:I preferred Candide tbh Candide is really good and mercifully short.
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if you don't appreciate the purity of robespierre's problem solving skills more fool you
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Pompeii is so cool. An ancient city preserved under a layer of volcanic ash, nature's preservative. A little beat up, but not too beat up apparently https://twitter.com/pompeii_sites/status/1476890946730184704?t=XKTGW4rAcHNdYAY-y_JCtw&s=19 https://twitter.com/pompeii_sites/status/1476890957379481601?t=pk-sK0o4WZcbMMWMqyl1Og&s=19
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Looking at the above led me to this: https://twitter.com/lauradietrich_/status/1476827819611148288?s=20 What the actual gently caress?
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Slavvy posted:Looking at the above led me to this: drat the Friday the 13th franchise is older than I thought.
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Ghostlight posted:what do you mean alesia? i don't even know where alesia is! nobody knows where alesia is! For those who don't get the ref (read Asterix): 
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How the heck is she coming to the conclusion that these masks were used for "the hiding and transformation of identities"?
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