#Classical

An obfuscation campaign is currently underway to give intellectual cover to assorted foreign supported regime change agents. In this thread I will try to explain why these toolkit creating agents
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NYT article about @platanoclassics: "He wants to save the Classics From Whiteness." White prof responding: "He wants to destroy the classics." I don't have time to go into all of
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Alright, it's time to do a thread on Achilles, Patroclus, and pederasty.I'm a trans mlm who studied ancient Greece in my final years of high school. This largely included areas
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This is a thread about the link between values and knowledge production.I have values (A) and as a scholar, evidence (B). When A and B contradict, I follow A. What
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Hello!Here’s a thread about a learning technique that’s served me well. I think it’s intuitive and joyful, and hope you find it useful too.Introducing the Web of Awesomeness A
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Thread: 1/ There's an intra-left debate going on with regards to the future of liberalism. Some of the best voices on this are @ZaidJilani @shadihamid and @zackbeauchamp - and its
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Magnetic Observatory/O’Kane Film Centre, UCD – While this building is over 180 years old, it has only occupied this site in UCD for the last 40 odd years. Built in
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THE DAY THE POLICE WERE NO LONGER NEEDED 1/12 On August 19, 1966 - Chinese students launched a fight for social justice to fight for the rights of the oppressed
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THREAD: I've repeatedly highlighted that you need #Chinese language literacy for analysing Chinese politics. . The below-quoted thread is an example of why. The author argues that the use of
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If you look at the world, I'd be tempted to go so far as to say that the *single biggest* difference between societies which are pleasant to live in and
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For the eighth and final (!) Queer and the Classical seminar, we have 'After Callimachus: Reading and Conversation' with Stephanie Burt (@accommodatingly) and Mark Payne. We are of course reading
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Today is the auspicuous day of Mohini Ekadashi. (Thread)This is the day when Lord Vishnu incarnated in his 11th avtar which is the only female avatar out of his 24
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I'm starting a new thread on the treatment of women in hindu history and busting some myths which have propagated along the way. Most excerpts are from The Position of
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FINALLY got my hands on a copy!I’m so excited to have contributed to this book. If I had read this book 6 yrs ago, I would have been shocked with
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*THREAD*On this Veteran's Day, 2020 things are moving culturally (as is intended) at breakneck speed to right the cultural wrongs of the Orange Man Bad Era.Many thought professions and religions
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1 like= 1 unpopular opinion, let's see what I've got Russia isn't necessarily a trustworthy "based" power- it's dominated by Mogilevich's mafia network- and it isn't necessarily in opposition to
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