Disarticulating Platonist

Canada
Joined March 2009
Death by wooden tortoise
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Philonic anti-urbanism
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Now *that's* a close reading.
Reading David Charles on Aristotle and ‘The Undivided Self’. De Anima II-III is 60pp of Greek, so this (legendary) reading group worked at an average rate of four pages per year. Completely inspiring.
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Stoic cosmos
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Barbarian bed
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Generating fictional footnotes in fictional books
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Psellus - Prophetic powers among animals
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Silver tetradrachm depicting the famous Scylla 414 BC. From Akragas (Agrigento), Sicily.
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Advantage of the Byzantinist
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Sybarites in the streets
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Erasmus on the proverb 'make haste slowly'
ἀνάπλωσις, εως, ἡ (anaplōsis) —unfolding; explanation, Alex.Aphr. in Metaph. 467.8. —unfolding, evolution, ἡ τῶν λόγων ἐξέλιξις καὶ ἀ. Plot. 5.7.3; opp. συνείλησις —simplification, Dam. Pr. 26,70
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Marble Akroterion, Greek, Attic, ca. 350–325 B.C.
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Zoroaster / The Adventures of Er
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