"Seilenos (#Silenus), who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of #Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3
🏛️ Baby Dionysos in the arms of #Silenos, his foster father. From #Myrina, dated 2nd century CE. Today in the Musée du Louvre.
Nobody really knows what is meant by "officer of the government." It might include the president. It might not. A president occupies a unique position under the Constitution.
Basically what the judge did was punt the issue to the appellate court.
The judge found that Trump incited an insurrection (a finding of fact) but didn't find that he was an officer of the federal government (a matter of law).
@SummerDay@Teri_Kanefield if a court rules that the Commander in Chief of the armed forces doesn’t hold a military office, I’ll join you in saying things are illogical. 🖖🏼
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
For #AllHallows, have a relief of #Hermes in his role as #psychopomp. Hermes guides the souls of the dead to the underworld. Here, he takes the hand of a dead woman named Myrrhine on the way down to Hades.
🏛 Relief on Myrrhine's lekythos, ca 420-410 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, #Athens
A humourous oil painting of the love of #Mars and #Venus that was created when the artist was only 15 or 16 years old.
Mars ist struck by an arrow in his chest but it is a love arrow 😘
🏛️ Mars, Venus and #Vulcan, by John Singleton Copley. Oil on canvas, dated 1754 CE. Today in the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, USA.
"Fuck it" is the most powerful and subsequently destructive phrase in the English language, allowing one to ignore consequence in favor of pure action, with the tactic acceptance that you've likely released forces far beyond your control.
For a phrase with so much destructive potential, it's interesting to note that the root of the phrase goes back to sex, the act of creation, and even possibly love. Sex is the effort to produce a child, a force which will, whether you like it or not, grow beyond your control.
"Kill it" doesn't have the oomph. Why not, when it essentially speaks to the same destructive dynamic and disregard of consequence?
Because "kill it" invokes death, which is to put to rest. "Fuck it" invokes life, which is to spark chaos.
@Arotrios One of my students once gave up on a physics lab report by writing “Nuke this” on his aborted data-analysis section. It was almost as effective.
Apparently I'm the level of Tolkien nerd who can read an entire book of his rough notes obsessing over minutia. Currently reading "The Nature of Middle-Earth" which includes details like what type of pen the notes were written in.
@aaronm@bookhistodons@medievodons Heroic effort on the alt-text. Now I’m trying to figure out why one of the heads doesn’t have a crown. The idea that it’s an allegory for social inequality seems far-fetched. 😀
Today in Writing History September 25, 1930: Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, illustrator, and songwriter was born (d. 1999). He is perhaps most remembered today for his amusing children’s poetry and fiction, like “The Giving Tree.” However, he also wrote many songs like "One's on the Way" and "Hey Loretta" (which were hits for Loretta Lynn), and "25 Minutes to Go," about a man on Death Row, and "A Boy Named Sue," both made famous by Johnny Cash. He also wrote "The Unicorn," which The Irish Rovers made famous. He also wrote many songs about drugs and sex, like “I Got Stoned and I Missed It,” “Quaaludes Again,” “Masochistic Baby,” and “Freakin’ at the Freaker’s Ball.”
Me reading "Storm in the Dark" by the Tunisian poet Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi in Arabic & English. I got sick of translations of Arabic poetry ignoring rhyme & meter. If you want a thing done right, you gotta do it your own self
هذا فيديو أقرأ فيه قصيدة "زوبعة في ظلام" للشاعر التونسي ابو القاسم الشابي بالعربية وبترجمتي الانجليزية. انا سئمت من الترجمات الانجليزية للشعر العربي الحديث التي تُهمِل القافية والوزن. وتبيّن انو اذا بدك اشي ينعمل مظبوط لازم تعمله لحالك.
This week's #MythologyMonday theme is trees 🌲
Many stories in #GreekMythology have trees in it, some of which I will be telling in this thread.
The most famous tree-related myth must be the transformation of Daphne. Hit with Eros' fiery arrows, #Apollon was burning with desire for the nymph and pursued her when she fled from his advances. Feeling her strength wane, Daphne prayed for help from either her father or Gaia and was turned into the first laurel tree.
@medievodons and Art Historians, I need help with a word. Is there a specific term for "those little groups of three dots" one often sees in manuscript illumination? As example in Ott.lat.1562 f.1r. I feel like I've seen them so much they need a specific term, but I can't seem to recall one
My readings of Shakespeare's sonnets in Early Modern Pronunciation continue with Sonnet 16, available in full to subscribers. Non-subscribers can hear a brief preview here.
@azforeman@linguistics@histodons OT, but I wish Gutenberg had put the equivalent of “Neuer before imprinted” on his bible, just to see if anyone was paying attention.