#Homer

Alison Fisk

AlisonFisk

Mycenae in the Peloponnese region of Greece was the centre of a bronze age civilization between 1600-1100BC. Greek mythology says it was founded by the hero Perseus. Homer called it

THE Red-Headed libertarian™

TRHLofficial

Yes, Let’s talk about “Packing the court” shall we? This was an idea brought forth by FDR because The Supreme Court focused too much in The Constitution and going his

Dr Crom

DocCrom

Ancient Artefact of the Day: Today's piece has been chosen to fit with #MuseumsUnlocked and the focus on bone, horn, and teeth.The Boar's Tusk Helmet from Mycenae, Chamber Tomb 518,

Pallando the Blue

KomninosM

ABOUT LUCK IN PAGANISMDid our pagan forebears believe in luck? Let's find out!Today, we think of luck as a weird concept, that we invoke to interpret things that happen and

Edin Hajdarpašić

_edinh

In 1933-35, Milman Parry & Albert Lord came to Yugoslavia with 1000s of aluminum disks onto which they recorded oral poetry from waiters, farmers, coffeeshop patrons, village women. Their archive

TwatterIsAB!t€h

twatterisab

A THREAD: On #PredictiveProgramming & #GalacticCodex. Watch all the videos in this thread. #GalacticCodex requires the evil forces to tell everyone in advance what will happen. Then, our silence becomes

Er-EEEEK! Rogers 👻🎃

EricRogersHere

Okay, a little #protip time, and then Imma log out of here for the rest of the day to write, kids. Ready? Here it goes.1. I am presenting this b/c

Katie De Boer

antianeirantics

I have been thinking a lot about #motherhood in epic and have some thoughts! (A thread!)This semester, I’ve been teaching a Greek course “Homer’s Iliad and the Trauma of War.”

Emma

AgarthaEmma

Olive oil. What can’t it do?The poet Homer called it liquid Gold. Ancient Greek athletes would rub their bodies in it to enhance athletic performance. Olive oil is magical, it

Benedictine Baseball

BCPBaseball

It's been 10 years since we won our second VISAA state title (2000 was the first)... I always loved this picture from the state title game as you can see

Joe Rosales, Art Guy

joetweetguy

There is something weird going on in pop culture, and the longer it goes on the weirder it gets. It’s about “old” characters. Aged persons.Specifically: much pop culture is still

Coders of Colour

codersofcolour

Last month, 10 young people took part in our Introduction to Machine Learning (Computer Vision) course. This thread shows some of their creations. Jasmine built a “Which character are you?”

I am not uncertain.

_adrxante

Happy Juneteenth I will celebrate by making a thread of little known black history events Hiram Rhodes Revels (R-Mississippi) was the first black person to be elected to Congress

Thomas Wier

thomas_wier

Weekly Georgian Etymology: ჩრდილოეთი črdiloeti ‘north’, lit. land of shadow, from Old Georgian ႹႰႣႨႪႭ črdilo shadow plus –et, < čero shadow poss from PIr *caHyáH + PK *dil- morning. In

Cxaskin

cxaskin

Thread sur des choses inutiles mais intéressantes a savoir : 1- Une personne passe en moyenne 6 mois de sa vie assis devant un feu rouge. 2- A Hongkong, une

TOURNOI EN ÉPINGLÉ 📌 || нιмєкαωα вσυииιє || ⒻⒸ Ⓦ

BounnieSurYT

Thread des 200 abos sur les meilleures ships Déjà je tiens à dire que c'est pas un classement, c'est juste les 20 meilleures mais il n'y a pas d'ordre,