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ad lītem (“at, for the lawsuit”)
līs, lītis (i-stem).
January 14, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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#surprise
January 13, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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The Roots of Cooperation press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-...
The Roots of Cooperation
Nicholas D. Cross’s The Roots of Cooperation reinterprets how the Greeks conceived, enacted, and displayed their alliances, offering a socially grounded understanding of interstate relations in antiqu...
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January 12, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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Andy Zaltzman: ‘Aristophanes is total comedy: political satire, slapstick and dick jokes’
The standup on studying Ancient Greek comedy at university, his worst gig and having the test scores shouted at him during sets
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January 12, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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This relief is a Buddhist interpretation of the fall of Troy. From Gandhara - now part of Pakistan and Afghanistan - it depicts the Greek warrior Sinon and King Priam pushing the horse towards Troy, while the Trojan priest Laocoön obstructs it and Cassandra predicts disaster. 🏺

100-200 CE. 📸 me
This apparent Trojan War scene comes from the region of Gandhara (in modern Pakistan and Afghanistan). The figures seem to be the Greek warrior Sinon pushing the horse - smaller than a normal horse and on a wheeled platform - towards Troy, King Priam behind it, the Trojan priest Laocoön trying to obstruct it, and Cassandra, Priam's daughter, predicting disaster. But 'Cassandra' wears traditional Indian clothing and ornaments worn by nature or fertility spirits (yakshi) in South Asian art. The episode has probably been reinvented as a Buddhist mythological narrative. The Laocoön figure may have represented a bodhisattva, a Buddha of the future, intervening to avert disaster. Relief panel, probably a stair-riser from a votive stupa, AD 100-200. Kushan, probably near Hund, Pakistan. Brownish schist. British Museum (1990,1013.1)
March 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM