18 month ago
adamrg : Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted - Cory is understandably crushed by this news. I had suspected that the authoritarian government that was represented in the 1967 film was partially responsible for this view of the book.
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20 month ago
adamrg : Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84 - New York Times - Well, this seems like as good a time as any to churn through his works again.
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plasticbag : How to write in polytonic (ancient) Greek in OSX - This is sort of a niche thing to care about, but care about it I do. I keep wondering if I should put up any of my old abandoned doctoral work onto the web. Seems weird to have spent that much time on something and not be able to open up some of the resul
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30 month ago
plasticbag : The Beazley dictionary of Classical gods, cities and things - Lovely resource, with pictures and all kinds of neat stuff. Looks a bit crappy, but probably pretty easy for search engines to parse...
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33 month ago
plasticbag : A 2,500 year old sarcophagus has been found in Cyprus, covered with paintings representing scenes from Homer... - Sometimes it's easy to forget that the history you read about in books actually bloody happened to real people. Moreover, how awesome is it that over two millennia since the time of the Greeks we're still finding more stuff and gaining more insight?!
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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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