running low on bronze, which city should i sack 🤔?
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👤 ugarits-finest-merchant-deactivated11770102
man, fuck you guys
#y'all hear anything? #...must've been the wind
🔁 wenamun-of-waset
☀️ wenamun-of-waset
cities these days just don’t respect the will of Amun like they used to… back in the days of Pharaoh people used to ACTUALLY pay the gods some respect!!
🌲 byblosiophile
for the last time, we are not giving you free lumber
☀️ wenamun-of-waset
but i hauveb no money 🥺
#i only wish to carry out the will of amun :( #its not my fault i was robbed in a tjeker town :(
🔁 uhhaziti-up-top
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I am a widowed and marriageable Queen 👸!! I am looking for a prince 👑 that’s ready to be tamed like a wild beast 🐺 tamed to be a pet 🐶 and never look back on the past life…
👤 4thbestprinceofhatti-deactivated1324051
o shit fr?
🛡️ uhhaziti-up-top
they fuckin got his ass LMAO
#yet another L from the land of hatti #bet egypt gave him plague too
🔁 kaškan-nicely-here
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at the store 🤪 anyone want anything?
⚔️ you-wanna-piyame
mmm get me some of that sweet sweet iron 🤤
🌞 the-great-king-of-hatti
whgat the fuck. is that my house???
🐎 kaškan-nicely-here
move your feet, lose your seat 😌❤️
#not our fault you went to invade syria again lol #no takebacksies
🔁 littletirynthianpig
⚒️ alashiyanbronzeboiler
boat :)
#alashiya please lock in... my city is running out of bronze :(
🔁 eteocretan-eccentric
👤 cretan-cowboy-deactivated1450082
who up leapin they bulls
⛰️eteocretan-eccentric
never forget what the ahhiyawa took from us 😖
#they even stole our perfectly good syllabary
🔁 littletirynthianpig
🐷 littletirynthianpig
was anyone going to tell me there was more land to the west or was i supposed to just sail out there myself
🐷 littletirynthianpig
anyways look at my little hesperian piggy!!! #mylittlepiggy
#kind of a hassle to get him here but oh well #all in the name of major street cred
🔁 alashiyanbronzeboiler
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starting to think this whole syllabary thing is a scam, we should ◊◊◠◡◉◡◠◊◊
🚣 lukka-this-boat
so true! i think △▼△▼◎▼△▼△
⚒️ alashiyanbronzeboiler
#mom come pick me up the aegean is actin weird again
🔁 wenamun-of-waset
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can everyone quit harassing tjeker posters on here over that egyptian guy whining about the “will of amun”… OP literally stole 30 deben from us last week 🙄
☀️ wenamun-of-waset
no + its all in your head + all further communications must go thru my lawyer (the beautiful cypriot hostess who has granted me safe harbor)
#gods forbid a man carry out the will of amun-re #smh
🔁 sherden-my-herden
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“oh no, the sea peoples are taking all our stuff!!” weak shit. the solution is simple: if you can’t beat em, join em. take to the sea ❤️
🌲 byblosiophile
instructions unclear, i am now in carthage
⛵️sherden-my-herden
what the fuck is a carthage
#is that some sort of new plague? do you have a salt deficiency
⚒️ alashiyanbronzeboiler
hey everyone, i’m here to announce that bronze ingot commissions are now CLOSED. i was dicking around in my forge the other day and found something way cooler & cheaper. more to come soon!!!
Next year's OCR GCSE Latin prose set text B is unabashedly sensual/sexual, verging on erotic.
It's a nice change from 2025-2026's suicide/murder, I suppose. And my students voted unanimously for this rather than option a, so. There'd better be no complaints.
I suspect they were dealing with something closer to a wild lettuce than what most of us are probably picturing. Something like lactuca virosa or lactuca serriola
Which don't look much like supermarket lettuce, but do have a very upright habitus
^ virosa
^ serriola
We've bred the milky sap out of lettuces, because it tastes gross and has mild psychoactive effects that people aren't usually looking for in a salad, but both those varieties produce a lot of it. It's called lactucarium, or "lettuce opium" and as I recall was really quite important to the Egyptians. (In that it was a key part of ancient Egyptian pharmacology and indeed continued to be part of the European pharmacopeia till the 19th century.)
(This despite the fact that it's debated whether lactucarium has any meaningful effects on humans. It definitely has an effect on rabbits, who get drowsy and also apparently get upset stomachs. Humans seem to at most maybe get mild pain relief comparable to a paracetamol/ibuprofen and maybe some very mild sedation, plus high odds of a nasty upset stomach with cramps/diarrhea/vomiting if you go too far. But it's hard to prove that the intended analgesic effects aren't at least partly placebo.)
(Please note for accuracy's sake: while lactucarium gets called "lettuce opium" and wild lettuces get called "opium lettuce" they don't actually seem to interact with opiod receptors. It's called that because people through history have repeatedly tried to make it work as a safer/milder/not addictive substitute for opium based pain relief. And to be fair I imagine it would definitely have been safer, even if we were to take the extreme position that the medicinal effects are mostly or entirely placebo)
wake up babe new (possibly sculpted between 27 BCE to 14 CE) Athena statue just dropped (found during the excavation and restoration work for the western theater of Laodicea, known today as the Denizli province)
And it’s BEAUTIFUL
Look at the details on her aegis. The fabric of her peplos and chlamys!!
The Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, has announced the discovery of a sculpture of the goddess Athena approximate
I just finished The Three Musketeers, and this might be the best book I've ever read in my life, mostly because every single character is batshit insane and drunk for 90% of their Big Plot Decisions.
Lights up on d'Artagnan: he's new in town and he's already making enemies. He meets his three best friends by scheduling back to back duels with them, under the assumption that he won't have to fight the last two if he dies in the first one. He is twenty years old and has never even heard of a frontal cortex. This is made evident by every word he says.
Athos, Porthos, and Aramis are supposedly in their 20s-30s, but barely any better. The moment they have any money at all, they siphon it directly into their alcohol budget. They make enemies everywhere they go and get into almost as many duels as d'Artagnan. Also worth mentioning: they see this crazed 20-year-old and choose to devote their lives to him simply because he has good vibes.
We've got the cardinal, who seems only tangentially related to any kind of clergyhood. We've got the king, whose main personality trait is that he HATES his wife. We've got the queen, whose main personality trait is cheating on her husband. We've got the Duke of Buckingham, who is (unfortunately) English. We've got the Love of d'Artagnan's Life, aka somebody else's wife but he sucks so he can get cuckolded. And finally, we've got the prototype female manipulator, a character written with such intense feminism AND misogyny that I scarcely know what to say about her except "go off, queen" as well as the occasional "I don't support all women, some of you are stupid."
Do yourself a favor and commit 5-12 weeks to reading this book, if for no other reason than the part where d'Artagnan tells a guy "I'll spring you from jail, don't worry, it's all part of the plan!" and then immediately forgets him in prison and flirts with his wife.
Dumas is glorious in every way. I somehow charged through the insanity of the unabridged and unexpurgated Count of Monte Cristo when I was about 14 and it marked my soul and changed me as a person.
There's something about writers who are a) genuinely talented b) paid by the line c) allowed to go on as many tangents as they damn well like d) under no pressure to edify the reader
There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?
I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!
A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.
Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...
I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.
The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come
DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.
I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. It’s about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.
genuinely confused as to whether in English "studying classics" refers to studying classics in translation or studying classical philology, because some of these people talking about studying classics are definitely Not talking about classical philology
In Britain (no idea about America or other Anglophone countries) Classics is generally considered to refer to the v broad field of Greek and Roman/sometimes ancient Mediterranean:
- languages
- literature
- history
- art/archeology
- philosophy
- reception
A degree might include any number of and combination of these, but traditionally you have to have studied the languages and read original texts for it to be Classics, otherwise it's just sparkling Classical Civilization(s)/Classical Studies (the usual names for Classics studied entirely in translation.) That said, there's no standardisation, and some universities do offer degrees called classics with little or no ancient language requirements.
Some places traditionally also include modern philosophy as part of a classics course — Oxford does this for example. Modern philosophers aren't considered classicists there, but classics students often take papers in modern philosophy.
Everyone say thank you american indigenous people for cultivating corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, cacao, pumpkin, squash, and anything i missed. Makes life more meaningful globally
Yes actually I will not shut up about how these foods are from the Americas/cultivated by the people there, and did NOT exist in Asia, Africa or Europe before the 1490s, there was an absolute food revolution going on in the 1500s. Whatever you think is traditional food for your country? Check again, you’ve maybe only been using that ingredient for maybe 500 years. Here is the full list of crops, it is very interesting :))
The big one, when I talk to students about ancient Roman food, is beans. People know about potatoes and tomatoes usually, and they don't eat squash often enough in Britain for it's absence to feel like a big thing, but beans are so basic and boring and cheap that they're always surprised that they're fairly new to Europe.
(Europe had broad (fava) beans, lentils, chickpeas, and peas, and Asia also had soy and mung beans. But not the "common bean" varieties we're all familiar with.)
I think it's particularly shocking because translators have been carelessly translating "broad bean" as "bean" for many centuries, so they don't feel absent from the historical record like tomatoes or potatoes. You can find loads of references to Romans eating beans, and 95% of them don't specify.
This lazy translation problem also applies to pumpkins. How hard would it be to write "bottle gourd"?
