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I came across these a while ago … figured someone would want to read them. They’re a series about why Socratic philosophy is overrated by someone called ‘Richard in Japan’: Socrates Was a Fraud: The Emperor’s New Philosophy Socrates Was a Fraud Pt. 2: Irony and Humility Socrates Was a Fraud Pt. 3: Philosopher? King!…
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There’s a piece from Discovery going around right now with a focus on the origins of female genital mutialtion. Inter alia: While the term infibulation has its roots in ancient Rome, where female slaves had fibulae (broochs) pierced through their labia to prevent them from getting pregnant, a widespread assumption places the origins of female…
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Hype for a documentary airing on BBC this Friday: Remnants of a Roman statue in North Africa could be the “first-ever depiction of tartan”, according to a BBC Scotland documentary. A piece of a bronze statue of the Emperor Caracalla contains the small figure of a Caledonian warrior wearing what appears to be tartan trews.…
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Here’s some (ultimately vintage) nuttiness for your Black Friday standing-in-an-endless-line-at-the-checkout reading … from Greek Reporter: The first researcher, who questioned the prevailing theory that Ulysses wandered the Mediterranean Sea for years before the gods allowed him to set foot once again on his beloved Ithaca, was an American historian from Chicago, Henriette Mertz. In 1964,…
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This is definitely in the FWIW category, but there is some wheat among the chaff … from the Tribune (Pakistan): There is, in rural Mandi Bahauddin district, a few kilometres from Phalia town, a village marked as Helan in the Atlas of Pakistan. The ‘a’ is pronounced as in ‘father’ and the ending is nasal…
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