USYD Classics / XXIII / Member of @soli_aus / Booksmaxxing
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined January 2022
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Which one of you left βThe Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keatingβ at Karl Marxβs grave?
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Congratulations to Sydney University students on another overwhelming call for BDS. The university's backward leadership has a lot of catching up to do.
Iβm getting into Haydn so as to better understand Beethoven, just like how Marxists read Hegel to better understand Marx.
Itβs crazy how many Classical Athenian political figures we only of through Aristophanes. Imagine if you were still being read about 2500 years after your death, but entirely because some comedian called you gay. What a legacy.
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sparta is the only polis offering resistance to athenian hegemony. once they beat the athenian imperialists we will have a truly multipolar greece and the spartiates will be able to free the helots which they cannot do right now because it will be an athenian colour revolution
Second hand book haul! Iβm teaching a class on Greek and Roman drama this semester at uni :)
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He doesnβt want me reading Sophoclesβ¦. He doesnβt realise I have a hot heart for cold thingsβ¦
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lenin according to krupskaya was unable to shoot a fox. he succumbed to a fox. "it was too beautiful" he says
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A lot of people on here seem to think that having a Letterboxd makes them automatically some kind of authority on movies.
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amazing review, so spot on: "we are not shown that war or killing are bad, only that good men sometimes feel bad about it β a very different point"
Visiting the British Museum and shaking our heads the whole time so that everyone knows we think the artefacts should be returned to their original owners.
