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Fran
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"roman era miners" --it feels like a bit of an oversight to not in some way indicate that most of them would have been enslaved, no? maybe i'm being too sensitive. but "miners" implies the modern idea of an employed miner, not the absolutely nightmarish existence that the enslaved were forced to endure in the mines. correct me if i'm wrong/mixing this up with ancient Greece though...
— May 21, 2026 09:08AM
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Fran
is on page 59 of 400
"That statement was confirmed in 1988, when German archaeologists discovered a very large thigh bone of an extinct animal in the ruins of the Temple of Hera on Samos. The big fossil had been brought to the temple and dedicated to the goddess Hera by a pious Samian in the seventh century B.C." Yeah I'll go ahead and incorporate that into my belief system. I am Looking Hellenistically...
— May 21, 2026 08:49AM
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Fran
is on page 56 of 400
"Plutarch’s statement means that, some 1,700 years before Cuvier, fossil mastodons were correctly recognized as a species of elephant! The legend of a great battle between the Amazons and Dionysus’s Indian elephants in the distant past was a rational attempt to explain how in the world elephants came to be buried on an Aegean island."
This is a GIANT leap in logic imho.
— May 21, 2026 08:44AM
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This is a GIANT leap in logic imho.
Elizabeth
is 80% done
I was saving this one as a Little Treat and it IS, it makes me giddy to think that you can take a map of supposed battle sites of the Gigantomachy (the great mythological war between the Olympians and the giants - that's Typhon et all to you Hades 2 players) and the most prominent Mediterranean fossil beds and they're THE SAME MAP.
— May 06, 2026 10:38AM
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