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I explore the Past to see the Future. A scribe of the shadows chasing stories that time tried to bury; i curate tales of war, heroes, mystery, philosophy & art.
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The Hellenic Race: (opens the original)
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What made someone Greek in the Ancient World? It sounds like a simple question until we attempt to answer it using modern terminology. Were the Ancient Greeks a race, an ethnicity, a linguistic community, a civilization? Could someone become Greek, or was Greekness inherited? The problem is not that the ancient sources fail to answer these questions. Quite the opposite: they talk about them constantly. The problem is that their answers refuse to fit comfortably inside the categories through whic
The Ethics of Olympus (Part 3): Xenia (opens the original)
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Some said Odysseus overreacted for liquidating the suitors who violated his House. Some others said Menelaus and Agamemnon went too far for pursuing justice after Paris violated their hospitality. But they didn’t; because it was not the face of Helen that launched 1000 ships but the violation of sacred Xenia, Zeus’ commandment, that demanded justice.When we speak of hospitality today, we usually think of courtesy: offering a guest a meal, a place to rest, or simply making them feel welcome. For
Parallel Lives: Alexander & Caesar (opens the original)
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IntroSome men inherit an age; Alexander and Caesar compelled an age to take their shape. Their names became permanent measures of human greatness, invoked by rulers who desired their glory and feared their fate.It would be easy to compare their victories, territories, and influence. Such calculations reveal the size of achievement while saying little ab… Read more
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