ProfOfIndefiniteArticles Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Elly DekkerProfOfIndefiniteArticles@SarahEBond @DavidRumseyMaps 2 small metal constellation globes from the Hellenistic period survive that should be better known, the Kugel Globe and the Mainz Globe. Sadly not easy to study using the internet alone. But Elly Dekker's Illustrating the Phaenomena, is fabulous on them. https://t.co/p79qmjeujQ
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Metaphysics
AristotleProfOfIndefiniteArticles@romanmosaics At the start of Aristotle's metaphysics he distinguishes between a builder and a 'master builder', tekton and arkhitekton. But like you say, the latter refers to a foreman or manager. The default in literary sources is to assume artisans are accomplished and highly skilled.
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Fish
Two-CanProfOfIndefiniteArticlesAll ten of the goldfish in our little pond disappeared a day or two ago. They can only have gone into the belly of the heron we have spotted now and then. Honestly I feel if they were going to go this was the best possible way for them to. Thank you for your time with us, fish.
Paperback, 2000
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A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs: Poetry
Hayden CarruthProfOfIndefiniteArticles@apistone @MetalClassicist It's a good question and I can't think of a straightforward yes answer. (@ae_stallings?) There is a modern tradition of georgic poetry incl. Sackville West's The Land to Hayden Carruth Asphalt Georgics, but more of it is a spin on Vergil's Georgics and the later genre.
Hardcover, 1998
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Categories
AristotleProfOfIndefiniteArticles@ShadiBartsch One is right to be skeptical, but then read Aristotle's Categories, a work which straddles the line between grammar and metaphysics and assumes that grammatical categories, like the binary between active and passive, are fundamental features of the world.
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From a Sabine Jar: Reading Horace, Odes 1.9
Lowell EdmundsProfOfIndefiniteArticles@HoraeOtii Depends what you want to do with it. It's one of the better translations I've read. You know Lowell Edmunds' From a Sabine Jar?
Paperback, 2009
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The Greek Myths: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Robert GravesProfOfIndefiniteArticles@MetalClassicist I have no idea what text you're quoting here, but the mix of erudition and nonsense reminded me of Robert Graves' The Greek Myths.
Paperback, 2012
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Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind: Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth
Yulia UstinovaProfOfIndefiniteArticles@Veirsly Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind, Yulia Ustinova, is good.
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Stevens: Poems: Selected by Helen Vendler
Wallace StevensProfOfIndefiniteArticles@ae_stallings One of my favorite Wallace Stevens poems is Domination of Black and I feel like your twitter feed is sometimes a series of sequels to it.
Hardcover, 1993
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The Falls of Rome
Michele Renee SalzmanProfOfIndefiniteArticlesGood review of what looks like a fine and timely book: Michele Renee Salzman, The "Falls" of Rome: crises, resilience, and resurgence in late antiquity. Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://t.co/Vfdk0iKEf2
Hardcover, 2021
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