24 month ago
plasticbag : The BBC reports on attempts to reconstruct an ancient device thought to measure the movements of the stars - I don't know to what extent the reconstructions referred to in the article are trusted by Classicists or Archaeologists. I should really explore this more. It's sort of fascinating...
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plasticbag : Slightly implausible Greeks get hot under the collar at the suggestion that Alexander the Great shagged the odd bloke - Drives me mad this stuff - firstly because it's not always been the case that a man who porks another man should be considered unmanly (sometimes quite the opposite) and because Alexander's relationships with men were clearly unusually passionate.
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