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Dr. Shadi Bartsch

@ShadiBartsch

6 months

Today I learned that the University of Chicago is shutting down the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge for budgetary reasons. I'm so sad for all the people who will be impacted by this.

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My op-ed piece today: Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer: It’s time to end the two-cultures era between science and the humanities

Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer: It’s time to end the two-cultures era between science and the humanities

The huge challenges of the 21st century demand a multidimensional approach.

www.chicagotribune.com

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3 years

In the Aeneid, bees hold each other’s feet and I didn’t know this was real!

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1 year

Dear friends, My beloved husband and the former president of the University of Chicago, Bob Zimmer, passed away this morning after a three year struggle with GBM. I am shattered, but so grateful for our time together.

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5 years

Lame joke for classicists only: Scylla: the face that lunched a thousand ships.

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4 months

🤯Heraclitus points out that language stabilizes a world in constant flux. You can't step in the same river twice, but the word "river," unlike its referent, doesn't change along with the current. It's as if language is constant and reality changing, vs the usual view of rhetoric

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4 years

The UK advance copies are out, with a completely different cover....

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7 months

Someone just mailed me this! It was between the pages of a book they were reading 😂😂

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6 months

I've received an impossibly lovely note from Queen (Shahbanu) Farah Pahlavi, saying how pleased she is that a woman who is half-Persian has translated the national epic of Rome. Stunned by such graciousness.

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4 years

If white supremacists are using ancient history and classical texts to so their dirty work, for me that is all the more reason not to discard these texts but to reappropriate them, to offer different and more nuanced versions of what they can stand for.

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People, it's just struck me: these are raised letters, not letters cut into the stone. How on earth did he do that?? Did he carve out the space around the letters? No wonder there were typos, then!

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@ShadiBartsch

3 months

And here's tomorrow's homework, which is going to keep me up late, I suspect.

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4 months

Addressing his crew of exiles in a terrible storm at sea, Aeneas tells them, famously, "Perhaps one day it will even be pleasant to recall what we suffered." This line puzzles me. Is it ever pleasant to look back upon periods of suffering?

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4 years

Page proofs have arrived!

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2 months

Has western philosophy--more specifically, its reliance on deduction as a tool for truth-seeking--brought us irrevocably to AI as the shaper of humankind's future? Facilis descensus Averno. My talk for @SymiSymposium

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Airplane reading! Awesome cover 😃

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3 years

I just received this map of Aeneas' travels as a (very) early birthday present! 1601 reprint.

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3 years

My poor mother, in the last stages of ovarian cancer, was turned away from the hospital bc all the beds were full of unvaccinated covid patients. C’mon, folks: you are causing great suffering.

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2 years

I saw this as I came out of the Lisbon subway and literally shrieked in horror.

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2 years

I've always loved the fact that Hittite for water is wa-a-tar 𒉿𒀀𒋻 Bedřich Hrozný, who deciphered Hittite in 1917, said that when he saw this word he realized Hittite was Indo-European.

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5 years

#ancientfacts @Ada_Palmer Ancient Romans had their clothes professionally cleaned--with urine. The cleaners ("fullones") didn't use their own pee, but left vessels on the roads to be filled by passers-by, which they would then collect and dilute with water before using.

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4 years

Classicists! I'm thinking of starting a podcast titled "Classics for the Good," in which I interview people about reappropriating these texts (that have already been multiply appropriated) for causes we can get behind today. Pls. let me know if interested in being interviewed.

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1 year

This morning as the gray rain fell we interred my husband’s ashes in Rockefeller Chapel, on the campus of his beloved University of Chicago. Goodbye forever and forever goodbye, my love. May you rest in peace.

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4 years

My US copies arrived! A big thank you to ⁦⁦ @penguinrandom ⁩ for making the physical book a thing of heft and beauty.

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1st century BC. A kid trying on a Satyr’s mask. Made me jump about a foot in the air.

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4 years

Hi vegan friends, I gave up the last thing: cheese. There's nothing left that I eat that depends on the suffering of animals. I feel a huge weight lifted from my shoulders, even if I'll be a nuisance at every dinner party in the future. Let's stop factory farming!! @Veganella_

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4 years

I'm going to say it again: Not all cultures have a reason vs emotion dichotomy. To think such a dichotomy exists "out there" is to forget we are embedded in one particular tradition of thought that is largely dependent upon Plato.

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5 years

Just to make my classics pals groan: Scylla: the face that lunched a thousand ships

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4 years

I just want to find 11,780 Twitter followers. If you don't help me, it will be very bad for you.

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2 years

This is just to record that I was walking along the streets of Lisbon, a bit lost and sobbing in the dark (my husband is terminally ill) and a taxi driver stopped for me and said kindly, Women are allowed to cry in my car. 🙏🙏Thank you, mystery cabbie, for taking me to my hotel.

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4 years

2020 royalties from my twelve books or editions published by University of Chicago Press: $12.91! I finally made it to over a dollar per book!!! If this isn't success.....

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3 years

Absolutely amazing: a perfectly preserved example of the Scythians’ “painted trousers,” as the Romans called them. 5th c. appliqué, not embroidered. Implication for “picti” in translation?

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5 months

God, I miss my husband. Some salty tears into the pasta experiment. It just hits you out of nowhere, as those of us who've lost someone we love know all too well💔.

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2 years

Tweeps, I won’t be posting as much for a while. For now, I have to take care of my husband. He can barely walk, and every fall lands him in the hospital. I am exhausted and heartbroken 💔

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4 years

Bertrand Russell was asked if he would die for his principles. His answer: "Of course not. I might be wrong."

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3 months

It’s the first anniversary of Bob’s ’s a toast to the lovely years we had together, traveling the world on behalf of the University of Chicago. And to his beloved Chicago Principles. And to the Institute on the formation of knowledge. So much has changed.

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4 years

Tweeting this pic of our home in Umbria because it calms me to look at it. I'm going to retire there and pick olives in the Italian sunshine. Unwanted guests will have arrows shot at them from the oylets at the top of the medieval tower 😃

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5 years

... from The Elements of Eloquence. "Adjectives...absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife.” Get it wrong, you sound nuts.

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3 years

Just had a fascinating dinner with @Billbrowder and family, but admit to scoping out the exit in case the KGB appeared. I can’t imagine the courage it takes to live like that. And a sequel to RedNotice is in the works!

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3 years

My Umbrian house. I can’t decide if it’s heaven or my greatest folly.

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@ShadiBartsch

9 months

We are awash in presentism. It’s as if we can’t imagine a world that isn’t ours.

Tom Holland

@holland_tom

9 months

This rests on two pretty dubious assumptions: firstly, that in this one case the notoriously unreliable sources for Elagabalus’ reign are to be trusted; and secondly, that Roman assumptions about gender can be seamlessly mapped onto those of British museum curators in 2023.

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Peeps, I was in such bad shape last night that I called a suicide hotline. The result was not what I expected: a canned menu asking if you were a veteran, or LGBQT, or other options. If you're hysterical it's hard to sit through this. I hung up and called two friends instead 😞

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In a divided country, the words “traitor” and “patriot” become interchangeable depending where you stand. Lucan’s epic on civil war uses the terms ‘virtue’ and ‘crime’ to just make this point describing Pompey and Caesar’s fight for power over Rome.

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3 years

Getting booster shot at Walgreens in Chinatown, babbling happily to pharmacist in Mandarin and finally I ask “But aren’t you surprised I speak Chinese?” And he just shrugs and said “Lots of people do.” DUDE, LEARNING MANDARIN ALMOST KILLED ME!! 😭😭

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Now that I know what it means, my heart goes out to everyone who has lost a parent. It's unfathomable that the mainstay of your life, the safest place to retreat, could leave you behind. Thank you for your support, kind Tweeps.

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Now that I’m here I can’t sell it. I threw my soul into renovating it for Bob, how could I let it go?

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3 months

This has got to be the worst idea I’ve ever seen. Conversations with an AI Socrates?!

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The reason why the AI cultists believe in it is because they truly do not understand what other minds are.

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9 months

At an award ceremony in DC. I inquire of my seatmate what he works on. “Slavery, he says. “Oh gosh, do you know Orlando Patterson is getting an award tonight?” I ask. He looks at me kindly. “I am Orlando Patterson,” he says.

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3 years

But who on earth lives on top of the Theater of Marcellus? And how do they get down?

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Having an argument with my class. Is logic metaphysical?

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3 years

You can’t believe you are living through something so awful. The dull repeated clang of the oxygen machine. The rasping, bubbling breath. Her eyes sometimes open up. They stare desperately but she doesn’t see anything. It has been a whole day. Please God, let her go.

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@clhubes Maybe it's a joke, like, "Haha, yes, we photo-shop our photos OBVIOUSLY"?

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10 months

Yesterday was my late husband Bob Zimmer's memorial service. I had been dreading it, but it was beautiful and profoundly captured the spirit of who he was. Rockefeller Chapel was packed. Thank you, everyone @UChicago

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My mother, who was born in Isfahan and confronted 100 different cultures, had decided she's done. She won't take chemo for her advanced cancer. I'm not supposed to post about her but I want to speak of her. Lila Sepehri Bartsch. The gods cheated her so often, and now we're done.

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3 years

Cried so hard yesterday that I threw up. Writing the obituary. Feel terribly alone 🙁

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3 years

What is vodka, but a potato persevering?

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1 year

Alone in the big wood house. The garden’s black. I am sitting at my desk but there is no work I could actually do. Released from the roller-coaster of these years, I just ask for peace.

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3 years

This fall I will be coming back from Umbria with 4 bottles of Torre Palombara olive oil, pressed from the olive trees in our farm by me and local pressers! It is amazing stuff. Please like this tweet if you'd like to enter the olive oil raffle! I'll mail 1 bot @ to 4 winners 😀

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2 years

You get to be older, you discover grief is the condition for life.

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4 years

Classicists, be careful: DRN — de rerum natura DNR — do not resuscitate

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4 years

Recycling my favorite joke. A. “A cannibal took my sister to a movie!” B. “Gladiator?” A. “No, I miss her.”

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5 years

Daniel Nussbaum has retold the story of Oedipus using 154 of the more than 1 million California personalized license plates. ONCEPON ATIME LONG AGO IN THEBES IMKING. OEDIPUS DAKING. LVMYMRS. LVMYKIDS. THEBENS THINK OEDDY ISCOOL. NOPROBS. OKAY MAYBE THEREZZ 1LITL1

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14,000 people gave Bob Zimmer a standing ovation today when his honorary degree was announced at our graduation ceremony. He died a hero to so many.

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My friends surprised me with a birthday cake! (And a martini!)

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1 am Monday Nov 1st. We are lost without you.

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Today I calculated that my husband has had brain cancer for 1/4 of our marriage. It is been a long and lonely journey, peeps. There's nothing anyone can do.

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#DontLookYourAgeChallenge Older women look great these days! I'm 55

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3 months

My husband Bob Zimmer died a year ago today. 🙏🙏

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@ShadiBartsch

9 months

Giving the Robert J Zimmer medal for intellectual freedom to a certain someone tonight.

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2 months

I love how this book cover conveys that Aeneas is blinded by the ideology of "manifest destiny". "Go west, young man," is exactly what he did, and took another people's land.

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@ShadiBartsch

5 months

Hey, my 6000 friends: let's all take this course together and then create our own online community where we only speak Phoenician. Who's in? No prior evidence of linguistic ability needed.

Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced, 'leave')

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For all my linguistics buddies...

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OK, one last Phoenician tweet, I promise! It will change your world! To say "I know" is apparently "yada." So now we finally know what "yada, yada, yada" means! 😂

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@ShadiBartsch

1 year

Thank you, President Obama.

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1 year

Michelle and I were saddened to learn about the passing of Bob Zimmer, the 13th President of the University of Chicago. Bob was a visionary leader and one the most influential university presidents in the country. During his time at the University of Chicago, he built upon its

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5 years

I found a Roman poem about a wedgie! Martial11.99: I've noticed that your undergarments, Lesbia, stick in your butt you as you rise. When you try to pluck them away, you wrench them out with tears and groans, so gripped are they by your mighty butt-cheeks.The solution? Don't sit!

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@SimonPulleyn Just like bag-el! I knew it was divine.

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I'm planting this on Mt. Rainier August 1st. I know it'll be blown away eventually, but until then it can look east to the University of Chicago, and Bob's name can flutter in the high breezes one more time.

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"In Zoroastrianism, the purpose in life is ...to bring happiness into the world." A core belief is "Being good for the sake of goodness and without the hope of reward." I AM CONVERTING FROM AGNOSTICISM.

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And here's tomorrow's homework, which is going to keep me up late, I suspect.

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A Phoenician tweet! 𐤌𐤉 𐤀𐤕 𐤊𐤋 𐤀𐤃𐤌 𐤀𐤔 𐤕𐤐𐤒 𐤀𐤉𐤕 𐤄𐤀𐤓𐤍 𐤆 𐤀𐤋 𐤀𐤋 𐤕𐤐𐤕𐤇 𐤏𐤋𐤕𐤉 𐤅𐤀𐤋 𐤕𐤓𐤂𐤆𐤍 Whoever you are, any man that might find this sarcophagus, don't, don't open it and don't disturb me. Our first word is 'al, 𐤀𐤋 "don't"

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I wanted to act heroically stoic at my husband’s official memorial service on Sept. 29, but I think I need to accept that this goal is unrealistic. There will be so many pictures of him. And I will not be the only one in tears.

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UChicago can shut down @IFK_UChicago , but I will recreate it elsewhere. We need institutes that bring together the sciences and humanities NOW MORE THAN EVER. Watch me.

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2 years

If the Iliad led to a self-help book, what would it be called??

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1 year

When someone dear to you no longer recognizes you, that means that one of your many selves (the one reflected in their eyes) has gone too, and you are correspondingly diminished and poorer for this loss.

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@jesssica__evans “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

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In Umbria and now with wifi!

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Most annoying thing about Aeneas for me: Dido to Aeneas in book 4: "If you leave me, I'll kill myself." Aeneas to Dido in book 6 (in the underworld): "Wha.... you killed yourself? I had no idea you'd react like this."

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Is tragedy what happens when you can't let go of things? Oedipus: Yes Antigone: Yes Ajax: Yes Medea: Yes Dido: Yes

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"Wild Boars are Ransacking Rome!" (in the news)

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Very buff man asked me at gym yesterday: “Are you a trainer?” I laughed, but now I know that 8 months of lifting has changed my body from a noodle to a taut wire. And my mind too, in some non-definable way. Women: I so recommend this. 💪💪

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Wow— a Muslim Viking!?

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A Viking era ring inscribed with the words 'for Allah', found in the grave of a woman who was buried 1200 years ago in Birka, 25 km west of modern-day Stockholm. The ring constitutes a unique material evidence of direct contact between the Vikings and the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Lugging my suitcase towards a vision..,

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Classicist word of the day! Here’s a fun one! Ultracrepidarian, n. From Latin ultra, beyond D, and crepidarius, shoe maker. Someone who offers criticism or opinions beyond their area of expertise. (Originally from a shoemaker who offered advice to the painter Apelles).

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Classicist Tweet of the day! A “Ulysses pact” is a freely made decision that binds you in the future, no matter how you feel about it at that point. Named for Ulysses sailing past the sirens. He wanted to hear their song but not be lured to his death, so he told his crew...

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What people don't realize about the Classics: They are classics, not because of their 'enduring values' but because of their ability to be appropriated in support of different SETSof 'enduring values,' often by regimes or interest groups seeking authority for their point of view.

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Erm…. Turns out I can’t use ancient Greek here (either that or “the big house” doesn’t mean hotel reception 😂) Everyone keeps saying “Neh, neh, neh”! Why on earth didn’t I learn a little modern Greek?

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So I grew up outside the US with Persian manners. The West offered great surprises. Here's one: Someone offers you a second helping and you say, No no, thank you, I couldn't possibly. Then they take the food away WTF!!??!!??

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I'm working on a proposal for a book "Against Socrates," arguing that his method set a bad precedent for healthy democratic discourse for multiple reasons.

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Archeologists working in the UK have found the first ever sample of "Tyrian purple," the dye --more costly than gold-- that was extracted by crushing the shells of sea snails and used for the purple stripe (augusticlava) on the tunics of upper-class Romans.

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I have to tweet this pic of a Baltimore Oriole by my incredibly talented friend Michael Rodriguez. I didn't even know what a Baltimore Oriole was. This looks like a Japanese painting to me.