Phil major, turned archivist, turned IT guy. Jewish Catholic. In favor of books, jazz, linux, and language study. 敬四旧
Maryland, USA
Joined July 2018
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Studying: Greek, Latin, Gaelic, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Hungarian, Yiddish, Japanese, Chinese
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I have uploaded the first piece of my substack series,
The Untimely Musings of a Historian of Ideas 1. horcherf.substack.com/p/the-…
It will come every second week, on Friday.
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Critical editions of the future will detail the textual divergences between branches with names like ManuscriptFinalREVISED.docx and ManuscriptFinalFinalFIXED(1).pdf.
Big news... and true. Tom Shippey's The Complete Old English poems is currently $1.99 on kindle. Get it while it lasts
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Attic was the dialect of Athens, and it's the Ancient Greek most courses teach first.
The Attic Reading Room on Kevilex goes from beginner works like Moss's A First Greek Reader to easy authentic texts like Xenophon's Anabasis.
kevilex.com/library/attic
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Full course on the Great Books added for free!
Highlights by the numbers
• 191 sections based on the 60-volume Great Books set
• 365-day “Great Books in a Year” path (~40 XP/day)
• Ages 8 to adult
• 3 starter rungs (How to Read a Great Book, The Great Conversation, The Syntopicon & Adler)
• Free · no account · public-domain excerpts · family questions · XP practice
The second screenshot is from one of the lessons. It sparked an idea that led to composing music based on math. But I’ll save that for another post.
teddyrookbook.com/great-book…
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I ask you all to join me in the grand crusade of reaching 1,000 subscribers on YouTube. I’m getting closer by the day. I’ve got a video on athletic training in Ancient Greece in the works. I really think you’ll enjoy.
I could really use your help!
Thank you!
Desktop:
youtube.com/@bbherodotus?sub…
Mobile:
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Did you know all of the ancient Greek and Hebrew books we publish you can download for free on our website?
Spread the word. We are trying to make biblical language education free for all people, especially those who could not otherwise afford it!
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Communist governments killed nearly 100 million of their own people in the 20th century.
In 1997 a team of European historians attempted to add up the tragic deaths. The Black Book of Communism.
Roughly 65 million in China. About 20 million in the Soviet Union. Around 2 million each in Cambodia and North Korea. A million in Vietnam. A million more in Eastern Europe. Then Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Cuba and beyond.
The numbers are too big to wrap your head around, but every one of these 100 million was a real person.
Someone starved in a famine their government caused and then covered up. Someone worked to death in a labor camp. Someone shot in a basement.
Most of them were not killed in war. They were killed in peacetime, by their own governments.
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so nice to be back to the standard way of numbering the number with respect to before and after of the earth’s rotation in relation to visibility of the sun that god intended us to use.
i.e., i’m an aristotelian who prefers standard time
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Working through Plato’s Greek on your own? Now you can enjoy levels of textual search that in my student days were only available with an institutional subscription for no charge at all!
What a great time to be an autodidact.
The Plato Reader site has a new look and new features!
Complete works of Plato in Greek and English, w/click to parse/define and corpus search, now with (1) advanced search, (2) updated lexicon, & (3) a phrase index.
Details in replies!
plato.johnhboyer.com
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Latin and Ancient Greek remain alive!
oxomensis.substack.com/p/new…
Note: If you are aware of any content produced in Latin or Ancient Greek in september, please let me know so it can be included.
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This year has been filled with interesting diagnoses. Started the year with double pneumonia. Then in the summer, I was diagnosed with TB. Now, I have been diagnosed with Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis and Acute Pulmonary Aspergillosis. Apparently, this is actually more serious than TB. I have started treatment today. Prayers appreciated! :)