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get behind me timarchus they could never make me hate you

“Modern historians importing modern obsessions into ancient history automatically think of sexual inter course as the primary referent when they find a man described as a woman or wife, but this is a mistake. Aeschines finds evidence for Timarchus being a prostitution in the fact that he left his father’s home and dined with Hegsander for free.”

nooo kindle very low battery levels aren’t real… don’t let big tech gaslight you…

“Athens was very successful in frustrating accumulations of power in the hands of dictators and parties, but very few positive measures, on the other hand, were taken to protect the rights of individuals.”

what’s the price of a small fish in classical athens james. this is of utmost importance. please spend at least three more paragraphs on this topic


“…in the ancient imagination the greatest threat to prosperity was not war so much as profligacy.”

LOVE the pro-drinking stance for orators. objectively hilarious

“By claiming that Demosthenes wrote his speeches while drinking water, his enemies undermined his claim to speak sincerely and passionately and angrily. All that famous ‘bitterness’, all that feeling, all that spontaneity had been carefully manufactured, meticulously prepared with a clear head the night before.”

naur the feminists got in and messed up our tooootally objective understanding of female prostitutes 2500 years ago 🥲

cannot overstate how over the moon i was to find that the first chapter jumps directly into the etymology of opson like HELL YEAH talk to me about pleasure through fish in the nerdiest way possible

“Ancient desire itself is in the text, repressed, but still present.”

starting a purchase on the hetaera