#Iliad

AstralNaught

FlightAstral

Final Thread Y Bronze Age: the epics. The Iliad in particular is 1 of 2 founding texts that form the foundation of Western Civilization. Comparing Epics may give insight into

Safwan | Cerebral Fuel

CerebralFuel

The historical influence of Homer, the great Greek poet, and what we learn from him (Thread) Homer was a great Greek poet and the accepted author of the Iliad and

Starman Dan

AlienWithABox

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

Natasha “the bakery is closed” Akery

ladyakery

THREAD: So, I'm assigning parts to my 9th graders for Book 1 of The Iliad. "Who wants to be Calchas? He's a prophet who always has bad news. Agamemnon doesn't

dan, simul doctor et docendus

thauma_idesthai

the fact that this piece casts "doing away with the label 'classics' altogether" as an existentially horrifying and unthinkably radical move tells you everything you need to know about how

ang❅

faustianqueen

So I’m gonna do a thread of all the patrochilles/eruri parallels I can think of here we go laid ease(I’ll try to include sources at the end) So we know

small-C communist 🏴🚩

_____newt

Just had a classmate in Classics ask incredulously how Classics is connected to white supremacy, and I thought I'd share my reply: Studying Greek and Roman history doesn't inherently link

Jamie McHale

jamiemchale

Last night was fun - I've signed up to the @interintellect_ series on "reading the greats" of western literature hosted by @tommycollison and @dmcdougall. We started with the Iliad. I'll

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disco_socialist

geek culture stuff is as inescapable as the sun & these folks still aren't satisfied.like, y'all wanted this stuff to be capital a Art.with that comes ciriticism.https://twitter.com/AlishaGrauso/status/1337263317727866880 this s

Janell Rhiannon 🤎

theravenangel

Imagine a soldier starting their 10th tour of Vietnam. When the soldier arrived they were 18, now they’re 28... missing home, sick of fighting another man’s war... this is point

Clare Wenham

clarewenham

New Policy Brief ILIAD Consortium Brief on @WHO #IHR #PHEIC declaration reform. We identify options for reform - and outline challenges which some proposals made thus farWritten with fabulous @alexandraphelan

Goost 🍊

agendaswitch

All patriachy is a tacit admission of female supremacy in the socio-political sphere. Men form a religous-mystery cult of which todays intel agency is a type, as a conspiracy against

Dr Emily Wilson

EmilyRCWilson

I put "NOT the first woman to publish a translation of the Odyssey" on my twitter-bio, after seeing it asserted for the gazillionth time. Here is why. It's factually not

Matthew Mason

matthewwmason

'Until fairly recently, Britain had an amazingly vital autodidact culture, where a large minority of the working classes passionately pursued classic literature, philosophy, and music...they knew that the "great books"...would

Cutcha Risling Baldy

cutchabaldy

Native American Short Story: The Lord of the Flies Native kids get stranded on island. Ask the kid w/ glasses to use them to start fires. Eat well. Tell stories.

Rauðgrani ᚱᛆᚢᚦᚴᚱᛆᚿᛁ

GraniRau

On Fate and Free Will. Part 1 on Homer.Been wanting to write something on this a while. It is a topic of great interest in pagan lore. There is a

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