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I miss classics so much. not a sustainable area of study for me at the current moment but every day I dream of going back
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I miss classics so much. not a sustainable area of study for me at the current moment but every day I dream of going back
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Anaxagoras:
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As a someone with a classical studies degree, I find it exhausting that tumblr only has two modes whenever my area comes up:
1 incorrectly claiming someone couldn't have been black (Helen of Troy, various Roman emperors)
2 incorrectly claiming someone has to have been black (Dido, Cleopatra, the exact fucking same Roman emperors, the entirety of Rome)
So let's be clear: to the ancient Greeks and Romans, Libya, Egypt, etc above the Sahara were in their backyard, while the Nile gave them an easy trade route to Ethiopia and nearby sub-saharan African countries. But for majority of people, these places were still far enough away to be mythologised. Andd the exact fucking same is true of Europe, but with Britain being the hard to reach you need a boat place.
The difference is that Africa was viewed as civilized and full of noble enemies and trade partnera while North Western Europe was viewed as a primative backwater full of barbarians.
They also were right next to Asia minor, trading through them to Asia major. Alexander invaded India, Iran ("Persia") was working hard to prevent Rome and China from trading directly, etc.
They didn't know about the far north of Europe and Asia, the far south of Africa, the Americas, or Austalasia. But they knew, traded, and intermingled with the rest, but at the same time travel was a much longer and harder thing to do (hence why the sea and river routes were more known than the overland).
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Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order. -- Harold Bloom, Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?