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Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Gibbon -- the urban legend, pt. 13

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In this chapter, Gibbon starts out with his tabloid trash again. You do not get to be dux  in a Roman province without training hard for 40 ...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- conditional six

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Book I section 27.   This is a good time to talk about “false friends”. Κορίνθιοι δ᾽, ὡς αὐτοῖς ἐκ τῆς Ἐπιδάμνου ἦλθον ἄγγελοι ὅτι πολιορ...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Knitting -- using up yarn

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So I have yarn from a project to make myself some fine-gauge cotton sweaters for warm weather, and turtlenecks to wear under them in cool we...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

The persistence of bad information

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So there's a fun video on Youtube about how Krakatoa destroyed the world in 535 CE. Unfortunately, the video was made in 1999 and we hav...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- pempo

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Book I section 26.   Learn the verb πολιορκέω, besiege. There were lots of sieges in the war. Also learn πέμπω, send, which is high-frequenc...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Gibbon -- the urban legend, pt. 12

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Last time was another case of Gibbon ignoring a crucial factor in history, disease and the way it changes a culture by redefining "norm...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- quoted speech

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Book I section 25.   Learn the verb πολιορκέω, besiege. There were lots of sieges in the war. Also learn πέμπω,   send, which is high-freque...