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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 2d

NEW EPISODE! #icymi, our second (of three) episodes on Plato's Republic dropped last night. It covers the back half of Republic, exploring Plato's theory of forms and the famous allegory of the cave. Available now wherever you get podcasts! #philosophy #booksky #podcasts

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 2d

NEW EPISODE! #icymi, our second (of three) episodes on Plato's Republic dropped last night. It covers the back half of Republic, exploring Plato's theory of forms and the famous allegory of the cave. Available now wherever you get podcasts! #philosophy #booksky #podcasts

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 3d

this is a good podcast episode, but it's not THE good podcast episode, if you know what I mean #philosophy #booksky

Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 3d

NEW EPISODE! We continue our trilogy on Plato's Republic with an episode exploring the latter half of the work, which includes philosophical ideas like universal forms, the nature of knowledge, and the Good (capital G), as well as Plato's dissection of the five types of states... #booksky #podcasts

Diagram of the scene described in Plato's allegory of the cave, with a superimposed text bubble from one of the prisoners watching the shadows. He asks "chat is this real"

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 3d

... and the examination of whether anyone who doesn't live in Plato's ideal state, where there are no plays, no desserts, and no private property, can ever be truly free and happy. Listen now on Spotify or wherever podcasts are published! #classicsky #history open.spotify.com/episode/4rMh...

Episode 40 – Plato, The Republic, Part 2 – Out of the Cave

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 3d

NEW EPISODE! We continue our trilogy on Plato's Republic with an episode exploring the latter half of the work, which includes philosophical ideas like universal forms, the nature of knowledge, and the Good (capital G), as well as Plato's dissection of the five types of states... #booksky #podcasts

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 4d

Montresor, editor extraordinaire, has arrived to deal with the late episode issue.

Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 4d

editor literally breathing down my neck today #caturday #proofofcat

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 4d

editor literally breathing down my neck today #caturday #proofofcat

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 5d

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 10d

Ezracles: It is important for intellectuals to say what is most useful.
Socrates: But is that true?
Ezracles: Certainly I believe it to be true Socrates.
Socrates: But how can I tell you are not just saying that because you think it useful to do so?

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 10d

There’s a sick kid in the house; today’s episode is postponed until Tuesday!

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14d

Chotiner: so you sat out most of the war because your general took your slavewoman.

Achilles: I proved my point. They couldn’t manage without me.

C: do you think that makes you look better or worse?

A: Well, I did’t kill him. And he brought her back.

C: son of Peleus, thank you for your time.

Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 14d

Chotiner: So you chose to kill your slavewomen as well as the suitors who had taken over your home. Why?

Odysseus: Well, I was in a frenzy understandably, plus they had probably slept with the suitors.

C: Ah. And as slaves did they do this voluntarily?

O: I didn’t ask because

C: They were dead?

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 15d

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 14d

this actually depicts the world’s first game of Battleship.

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 15d

Expert here: We were not, in fact, ever puzzled. It has been and always will be a writing tablet. www.indy100.com/news/ancient...

'Laptop' spotted in Ancient Greek statue leaving experts puzzled

An ancient Greek statue of a woman seemingly using a laptop has sparked time travel theories online. "Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant" is a 37-inch marble statue created around 1...

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 20d

Really cannot recommend Patrick Wyman's podcast Tides of History enough. In addition to pointing me at a ton of great resources for my own work, it's also been useful for both escapism and resetting one's perspective on what we're all living through. It's a Wondery show; easy to find.

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 20d

Something the man @mikeduncan.bsky.social will tell you at great and entertaining length is how long it takes for revolts to get off the ground, how often they fail, and how hard it is to predict exactly when they’ll pop off. Slowly and then all at once is a good rule.

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 21d

SPILL TEA, O MUSE, 'BOUT ACHILLES FLIPPING HIS SHIT

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 21d

Four-panel comic from Zach Smith of SMBC Comics. Panel 1: James Joyce clutches a copy of ULYSSES, declaring "I, James Joyce, wrote the most widely cited book that nobody has actually read!" Panel 2: Stephen Hawking, seated behind him with a copy of A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME on his lap, declares, "Nonsense! I, Stephen Hawking, have the most widely cited book that nobody has actually read." Panel 3: Immanuel Kant, bewigged and grouchy, appears behind Joyce and Hawking. "Bah!" he says. "I, Immanuel Kant, have the most widely--" He is cut off by a speech bubble in all caps: "HA. HA. HA." Panel 4: The Bible, enormous and floating in the air, looms over Kant, Hawking, and Joyce. "AMATEURS," it says.

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 22d

"Gimme the FDR special, please."

Helen, Tina's Boob Punch @tinavstammy.bsky.social · 22d

Progressive taxation including high marginal rates, with a minimum percentage of the yield going to help people: health care, education, safe water and food, low- to no-cost housing, disaster relief, etc.

I'd need help working out the numbers, but, yeah. That.

Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 22d

Scenario: You are the absolute ruler of the world for a few days, and you get to pass one permanent law that will be enforced for all time.

What would it be? 🤔🤔🤔

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Helen, Tina's Boob Punch @tinavstammy.bsky.social · 22d

Progressive taxation including high marginal rates, with a minimum percentage of the yield going to help people: health care, education, safe water and food, low- to no-cost housing, disaster relief, etc.

I'd need help working out the numbers, but, yeah. That.

Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 22d

Scenario: You are the absolute ruler of the world for a few days, and you get to pass one permanent law that will be enforced for all time.

What would it be? 🤔🤔🤔

Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 24d

. . . It's basically a record of one of those conversations where people say what they'd do if they were absolute ruler of the world, except one of the people is Socrates and he keeps asking about shoemakers, for some reason. Listen now wherever you get podcasts! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 22d

Now you. The pettier and weirder, the better. Plato and Socrates would be proud.

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 22d

Our host's dad would have vehicles doing more than 30 mph over the speed limit/ general traffic flow picked up by giant magnets suspended from the bellies of Chinook helicopters and flown back at least 10 miles.

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 22d

Jon S. would mandate maximum decibel levels for engines.

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 22d

Emily M. would mandate that anyone who wants to have children must adopt a puppy and raise it for two years. If it's a good dog, you get a parenting license.

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 22d

We asked BoAT-AC (the Books of All Time Advisory Council) and other listeners for their takes. Some highlights:

Beck C. would tax billionaires into thousandaires and use their money to retrofit society with green infrastructure—except for a few houses in which the ex-billionaires would live.

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 22d

Scenario: You are the absolute ruler of the world for a few days, and you get to pass one permanent law that will be enforced for all time.

What would it be? 🤔🤔🤔

Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 24d

. . . It's basically a record of one of those conversations where people say what they'd do if they were absolute ruler of the world, except one of the people is Socrates and he keeps asking about shoemakers, for some reason. Listen now wherever you get podcasts! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Episode 39 – Plato, The Republic, Part 1 – The Education of Our Heroes

Podcast Episode · Books of All Time · 14/09/2025 · 44m

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 24d

It's time to think about thinking, fam. The first of our three-episode series on Plato's Republic (c. 380 BCE) is in feeds now! This philosophical dialogue, which interrogates morality and the just society, is the founding document of Western political theory . . . #booksky #philosophy #podcasts

Photo illustration (not AI) of a bust of Socrates wearing green aviator sunglasses. Caption read: Episode 39 - Plato, The Republic, Part 1: The Education of Our Heroes

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 23d

Really fun thread about how human language is (surprise) set up to ensure effective transmission through oral culture!

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jul 18

*Most* poetic devices in human culture are error-detecting codes.

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