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To: mairdie

I studied classical Greek, but I’m too lazy to get the text and read the original, and my dictionary got lost. So instead I listen to videos explaining it while I do other stuff that’s not intellectually demanding. So this video’s tailor made for me.

I do enjoy Aristophanes, though. He’s very playful with the words, making up bizarre compounds.


5 posted on 10/19/2024 3:27:14 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Most classes, except physics, chemistry and math, were off original sources in English at U of Chicago. I still have all the old collections in the hall bookcases. Try occasionally to go back, but it’s a hard plough and I give up. Symposium, however, is pure pleasure. Physics/History of Art here.

And I have to admit that I do prefer humor.

“Journal of Alexander the Great” by Henry Livingston (1793)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByGN29_5VRQ


6 posted on 10/19/2024 3:35:34 PM PDT by mairdie (Trump (I Will Win) - Pavarotti's Nessun Dorma - https://youtu.be/MigUKGKr-nQ)
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