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Dear Friends: On Tuesday, May 14, HarperCollins will publish my new narrative nonfiction book, "The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code." Six years in the making (I am a senior writer at The New York Times, originally trained as a linguist), the book tells the true story of the race to decipher the mysterious Aegean Bronze Age Script known as Linear B.... Mehr »

Von margalitfoxbo...@gmail.com - 5 Mai - 1 neu von 1 Nachricht

	Pnyx
	[link] What is a "pnyx"? Ed Von Ed Cryer - 5 Mai - 8 neu von 8 Nachrichten

	Ancient Roman entertainment
	[link] Ed Von Ed Cryer - 18 Apr. - 4 neu von 4 Nachrichten

E-book Art-of-the-Meme Addendum Codicil

Chapter Eighteen: Usenet (in The Art of the Meme) is hereby amended and enlarged with the following memetic technique which has just come to light. If you see a Usenet post with a Latin phrase (e.g., "argumentum ad hominem") as its title, and you happen to think and write Latin fluently, you now have carte blanche to spread your Memes... Mehr »

Von Mentifex - 17 Apr. - 2 neu von 2 Nachrichten

	A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment
	Does Aristotle's view have anything to do with the fact that our world is in such a bloody mess? Von Ed Cryer - 12 Apr. - 5 neu von 5 Nachrichten

But is there any one thus intended by nature to be a slave, and for whom such a condition is expedient and right, or rather is not all slavery a violation of nature?,, There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule.

Should we go back to endorsing slavery?

Von Ed Cryer - 12 Apr. - 6 neu von 6 Nachrichten

	The relationship between the male and the female is by nature such that the male is higher, the female lower, that the male rules and the female is ruled: Aristotle
	Does Aristotle's view have anything to do with the fact that our world has fallen into such a bloody mess since we enfranchised women? Von Ed Cryer - 12 Apr. - 6 neu von 6 Nachrichten

	"It almost seems that the primary civilizations of the Greeks and the Chinese had an instinct of restraint and avoidance of extremes that was never quite shared by the derived civilizations of the Romans and the Japanese."
	It almost seems that the primary civilizations of the Greeks and the Chinese had an instinct of restraint and avoidance of extremes that was never quite shared by the derived civilizations of the Romans and the Japanese. [link]... Mehr » Von greg lee - 10 Apr. - 3 neu von 3 Nachrichten

	"The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more."
	Does what Aristotle said in POLITICS have something to do with present day global efforts to contain the development of nuclear weapons? Von greg lee - 31 Mrz. - 8 neu von 8 Nachrichten

	Plato and music
	[link] Plato wants to ban music that expresses "lamentation and sorrow"; or is associated with "drunkenness, softness and indolence". He doesn't like "multiplicity of strings or a panharmonic scale". That rules out the Lydian and Ionian modes. Leaving just the Dorian and... Mehr » Von Ed Cryer - 16 Mrz. - 12 neu von 12 Nachrichten

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