#Iliad

The Mythoversal Project

InMythology

A thread about our newsletter article by @tem2 on the 12/27 @WSJ Opinion piece by #kidlit book reviewer @MeghanGurdon about #DisruptTexts and an alleged banning of Homer's Odyssey.https://mythoversal.substack.com/p/banning-homer W

mulier perīta sacrōrum

unhistorize

What was the Greek attitude to myths? Thread!https://twitter.com/bodhidave3/status/1277632645170692096 Short answer: there wasn't one. "The Greeks" is not a coherent group. Neither, really, is "myth".Long answer: in

Dr Emily Wilson

EmilyRCWilson

If you are, for any reason, in the mood for a long poem about the abuse of power, I'd like to recommend Ovid's Metamorphoses. I spent the last month rereading

Resist the Hologram - Stu Cvrk

STUinSD

Thread – A New Year’s Eve Retrospective on 2020 America1. A good pal of mine emailed me this commentary written by a third party who has allowed for it to

Nick Hinton

NickHintonn

A Conspiracy Thread: Ancient AI It seems a major topic of discussion these days is artificial intelligence and its possible pros and cons for society. Many scientists claim it will

Christopher Polt | Tofte 🏳️‍🌈

CBPolt

When you watch an animated film by Disney (& lots of other studios), do you ever get the feeling of being utterly transported out of your life & brought somewhere

Tree-whisperer

Treewhisperer3

Biblical Times call for biblical interpretations of past stories and this thread delves into correlations between The Odyssey and the Q Anon phenomenon. A spirited dive into an Epic story

Marco Malvagio - poorly explained history stuff

MalvagioMarco

So, the ancient world wasn't the pristine white hollywood likes to picture. They loved colors.(incidentally, this thread is about ancient art\clothes, but the sentence works with people too)But some colors

The Sixth Mountain

cynical_biatch

The Line of PurplesColours on the edge of the chromaticity diagram.No other colour is more saturated : so difficult to depict.They are willing to sacrifice many small lies to protect

आलाप

nivrittijnandev

Ṛgvedic epithets (via syntagmata & other devices) are of special interest in lieu of other bardic compositions (such as Homer's Iliad) which serve to illumine aspects of a deity's characteristics

Sura Mbaya

surambaya

Nelson Mandela once declared that Ethiopia held a special place in his imagination.Indeed, the land of coffee, ancient architecture and a resilient people does carry a certain mystique… and a

टिंकुआ के पप्पा

Bihar_ke_lala

A lot of my educated friends from other side of the political spectrum have started dissing Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, a freedom fighter, taking cue from their leader Rahul Gandhi. This

Anjill 🕊

AnjillofLight_

1. #PaperPlanes I’m over in another dig & I make a paper plane connect. Been seeing this for a while, BUT why? What does it mean, & what does it

WikiVictorian

wikivictorian

Empress Elisabeth (Sissi) of Austria: A THREAD Empress Elisabeth of Austria (born Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria; 24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898) was Empress of Austria and Queen

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