Potiri Loebolorum

Owning the Loebs

late 19th and early 20th century classical scholarship was wild, I feel like you could just say things like “I think homer was a woman” or “I think the reason homer doesn’t have colors in it is that people’s brains weren’t developed enough to understand colors yet” and people would be like “hm he seems like a learned man, that’s a great theory”

there definitely were (still are, in some cases) a lot of truly galaxy-brain takes on the classical world out there but to be clear, when i say “george bernard shaw endorsed this theory” i mean george bernard shaw was the only person who endorsed this theory

im a linguist and not an egyptologist but yeahhhh the amount of times ive failed to explain to people that emojis are neither a language nor a writing system is several

The user nathanielthecurious has posted the following text, tagging it “Herodotus”:

Hey Egyptologists of tumblr! Anyone have academic reading recommendations for Egyptological perspectives on Herodotus? And I know, I know, fuck Herodotus. But I'm giving a presentation for class, discussing what we can figure out about who in Egypt was talking to Herodotus and why and how, based on his degree of (in)accuracy.

  I took the initiative to answer his ask, expressing politely my surprise for his “fuck Herodotus” slogan (he says that he is a student of classics, after all!) and remarking that the tumblr egyptologists will be of no help for him, as they have not read Herodotus and are terribly prejudiced against him.

Moreover, I suggested a valuable academic source corresponding exactly to what he was searching for (https://href.li/?https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014.08.56/ ).

His reaction was to block me and post the following thing:

the crazy herodotus dude found this post

he is blocked now

So, his “thanks” was to block me and insult me publicly, obviously grovelling to the (desperately mediocre) pop tumblr egyptologists. 

I wonder why some students of classics active like nathanielthecurious on this site are so moronic and spineless.

Btw 1: if you are interested in a topic, it is not difficult to find on this site all the posts tagged as relative to this topic. It is very easy, it does not need spying activity or things which act like magic spells, as an idiot has insinuated.

θεσιογραφικός -ή -όν / thesiographicus -a -um “thesis-writing”   [θέσις “thesis” + γραφή “writing” + -ικός adjectival suffix]   [θεσι- + γραφα- + -ικο-] stems   [θεσιο- + γραφα- + -ικο-] with Connecting Vowel ο   [θεσιογραφα- + -ικο-] new stem and stem   [θεσιογραφ- + -ικο-] α disappears before ι   [θεσιογραφικο-] new stem   [θεσιογραφικός] nominative singular   [thesiographicus] θεσιογραφικός Latinized

“Letter of Recommendation for [name of thing]?”. Or maybe see what the gmail suggestion says.

im doing pretty good! life is always stressful but things are going well for me overall this summer. also kalc/zena is in the same city as me for the summer, so yayyyyy nano mini-reunion

@nathanielthecurious oh nice!!! it’s so cool when things like that happen

you look very professional. good luck!