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Riot Bimbo posted:those are some sweet lookin' amphorae octopus account spotted
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neptune taking his fees octopodes 🤝 hermit crabs
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https://mobile.twitter.com/AlisonFisk/status/1497132454615867429
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why do so many of these look like those loving memes lol
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CoolCab posted:why do so many of these look like those loving memes lol
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'Mace head' yeah right buddy I know ceremonial purposes when I sees them
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Slavvy posted:'Mace head' yeah right buddy I know ceremonial purposes when I sees them "Buddy, they won't let ME gently caress the mace."
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can anyone recommend any survey histories of early Buddhism? book/podcast series preferred, I guess youtube lectures would suffice. I’m looking for broad strokes and especially as it related to existing and developing Vedic traditions in the first few centuries
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CoolCab posted:why do so many of these look like those loving memes lol people have always been exactly as dumb and gay as we are right now
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indigi posted:can anyone recommend any survey histories of early Buddhism? book/podcast series preferred, I guess youtube lectures would suffice. I’m looking for broad strokes and especially as it related to existing and developing Vedic traditions in the first few centuries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w88sWMukcO4 this is an ongoing series, may not be exactly what you're looking for but it's solid, also the sponsor is a connection to deeper study
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https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1501720705385353219
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ha, i get it
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dogs can’t talk! 😂🤣
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Drunkboxer posted:dogs can’t talk! 😂🤣 dogs can talk they just swore a vow of silence to mourn the fall of Sumer
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https://twitter.com/abbyfheld/status/1501880993833054208 pretty cool
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Agreed. But somewhat disappointing that the assyriologist who happened to be reading was on twitter and not here. This truly is a dead website.
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i was going to say it has to be a man walks into a bar linguistic joke
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https://twitter.com/slavojvibecheck/status/1501927555049431040?s=20&t=I-EJD9-SGdvVjojBfJE55A
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well is the dog loving a widow or sucking a dick?
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Yes
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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220308-what-ancient-philosophers-teach-us-about-uncertain-times how many generations of british people have the aristocracy sold stoicism to at this point? how stiff can those upper lips get?
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https://mobile.twitter.com/mrianleslie/status/1502398405661835270
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i have a weirdly specific question did ancient rome have street kebabs i know theyre from the middle east but im not sure when they were developed or how quickly they spread or if rome had a robust enough supply of meat that they would be economically practical for street vending
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Some Guy TT posted:i have a weirdly specific question did ancient rome have street kebabs i know theyre from the middle east but im not sure when they were developed or how quickly they spread or if rome had a robust enough supply of meat that they would be economically practical for street vending https://www.npr.org/2020/12/27/950645473/whats-on-the-menu-in-ancient-pompeii-duck-goat-snail-researchers-say
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Some Guy TT posted:i have a weirdly specific question did ancient rome have street kebabs i know theyre from the middle east but im not sure when they were developed or how quickly they spread or if rome had a robust enough supply of meat that they would be economically practical for street vending Not sure about kebabs themselves but meat was available, like i say swears online posted "fast food" was available in not just Rome but other cities through out the empire. Casual dining was common for lower class citizens, while the reclining on benches/couches was an upper class thing.
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it's something you see in any moderately advanced society. rome famously had a lot of labor specialization which necessitates purchasing cooked food for the majority of the population i assume it was much more advanced than the medieval tavern/country inn stereotype with semi-standardized kitchens able to serve hundreds a day i say swears online has issued a correction as of 01:40 on Mar 19, 2022 |
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urban romans had a strong take-out lunch culture centered around the thermopolium, a street vendor with hot food over a brazier. meat on a stick is inevitable
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![]() sometimes I'm like "ancient and foreign people were completely alien, no common conception of race gender class or identity, of the world or of meaning." sometimes I'm like "drat poo poo don't change huh"
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ancient peoples by and large were acutely aware of class, it just didn't bother them in the same way. kind of like the british honestly tho comparisons to rome are cheating. they had a lot of "modern" institutions and practices purely because those are things that arise under certain conditions that really only rome, the modern world, and a few other select place/era combos have ever experienced. early modern japan is similarly eerie in its modernity sometimes, but it's so much closer to our time that it feels less surprising.
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grotesque erotic nonsense is my favorite cultural trend because in addition to sounding super modern its only referenced in academic literature as this thing that was unfairly discriminated against because it was too queer and feminist and not that its a symptom of brokebrained psychosis that directly led to nearly everything about modern japanese culture that people make fun of aw nuts i crossed the napoleon line can we try making this the superhistory thread again we seem pretty far removed from the mods that reseparated them
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uh what part of early modern Japanese culture seems surprisingly modern? idk I never particularly got that impression
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Casey Finnigan posted:uh what part of early modern Japanese culture seems surprisingly modern? idk I never particularly got that impression they invented cops
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Antonymous posted:
My favorite connection is that Romans would buy the dirty oil scrapings of athletes and have them made into perfume. It's basically gamer girl bath water!
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Casey Finnigan posted:uh what part of early modern Japanese culture seems surprisingly modern? idk I never particularly got that impression grotesque erotic nonsense isnt an amusing phrase i made up its an entire cultural movement fake edit hmmm its actually erotic grotesque nonsense but that feels wrong somehow
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Casey Finnigan posted:uh what part of early modern Japanese culture seems surprisingly modern? idk I never particularly got that impression edo was pretty feudal because it was more or less a city-prison designed to keep the aristocracy contained, but other urban centers like kyoto and osaka had large middle-classes that supported a large pop art scene and a very active nightlife. there are a lot of other things that i've forgotten the specifics of since it's been probably ten years since i really dove into it, but a lot of modern japanese culture has its roots in the urban life of the 1700s. it's modern in different ways from rome but still pretty far from the samurai-dominated feudal culture people tend to imagine today
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(browsing website famous for popularizing a photo of a man exposing his anus for the sake of an incomprehensible injoke) people in prewar japan liked things that were erotic grotesque and nonsensical? well i just cant relate to that at all
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Jazerus posted:ancient peoples by and large were acutely aware of class, it just didn't bother them in the same way. kind of like the british
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Spartacus: its really nbd
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A Buttery Pastry posted:How do we know? Wouldn’t most writing on the subject be from the people on top? This is true, there is a clear class character in ancient historians' writing. However there were reformers like the Gracchi brothers so we know there was class conflict. There are also accounts of the actions taken by plebs, like leaving Rome in a massive strike known as secessio plebis.
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