A lot of people forget that, in a real gospel passage (Mark 7:24–30 and Matthew 15:21–28), a woman begs Jesus to exorcise a demon from her daughter, and Jesus initially refuses and compares the woman to a dog because she is a Gentile. He only belatedly relents and agrees to exorcise the demon.

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The level of out-of-touch, craven, dishonest sycophancy among (supposedly) center-left pundits and politicians at this moment is simply unparalleled.

Here are photos of the most relevant pages of Baker's book from my copy, in case you just want to read those pages without buying the whole book (although, if you are interested in the Salem trials, I do highly recommend the whole thing, since it is very fascinating).

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No, but the city does have a monument of a Hui Muslim woman, a Han scholar-official, and a Roman soldier, a monument with replicas of Roman statues, and a museum where they use clips from '300' to illustrate their founding. At one point they apparently considered building a replica of the Colosseum

Pharaoh Unas in his tomb inscription:

It's like this:

Fictional horror pharaoh's tomb inscription: "Whoever disturbs the pharaoh's rest will suffer a terrible curse."

Audiences: Woooo spooky!!!

Meanwhile, a real, historical pharaoh's tomb inscription:

"Have allowed" is a really interesting way of saying "have following laws passed by Congress mandating."

I think we have quite possibly just discovered the cringiest use of a Latin phrase in any context of all time.

#ClassicsBlueSky #classics #Latin

The ancient Romans most commonly greeted each other either with a simple handshake or with a kiss, which could be either on the hand, the cheek, or the lips depending on the level of familiarity. They did not use the Nazi salute.

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There is only one surviving ancient depiction of a person greeting a Roman emperor with a raised hand. It occurs on Trajan's column and, crucially, the palm is held *perpendicular* rather than horizontal, with the thumb raised. This is not the so-called "Roman salute."

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Massive respect to the woman who rejected Gaiman's initial absurdly low offer of $5K for her to sign an NDA and move out immediately when she had nowhere else to go, told him that she wouldn't sign for less than $300K, actually got him to pay that amount, and then broke her NDA anyway.

Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source

Around 530 BCE, Ennigaldi-Nanna, the daughter of the last Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus, founded a museum of ancient Mesopotamian artifacts in the city of Ur. Some of the artifacts in her collection were over 1,500 years old *in her time*. There were museum labels in Akkadian cuneiform.

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I agree with this paragraph especially strongly.

The contrast between what Greek statue pfp accounts would think that Johann Joachim Winckelmann meant when he said we must return to ancient Greek ideals and what he actually meant.

(He was, of course, very racist, but his Philhellenism had at least as much to with his homoeroticism as his racism.)