Phil major, turned archivist, turned IT guy. Jewish Catholic. In favor of books, jazz, linux, and language study. 敬四旧
Maryland, USA
Joined July 2018
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Studying: Greek, Latin, Gaelic, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Hungarian, Yiddish, Japanese, Chinese
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This is a wonderful Ancient Greek morphology tool from Eton College:
etoncollege.com/eton-greek/
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6 things done in the last 6 months since creating my account:
1) Organically grew to over 11K followers.
2) Built a free educational website with thousands of hours worth of no-ad, no-signup content (teddyrookbook.com)
3) Noticed a rhythmic pattern in the continued-fraction approximations of π (and related constants) and turned the idea into six original pieces of music.
4) Identified an original lexical connection in The Brothers Karamazov between the Russian Bible Dostoevsky likely used and the original Greek version.
5) Developed a neutral metaphysics framework for comparing ultimate explanations of the physical order across worldviews.
6) Spotted a candidate for a previously unrecorded archaeological site in Peru on satellite imagery (unverified).
What have y’all been up to the last six months?
.@cambria_edwards You can’t purchase kindle books directly on the Amazon app. That’s because a certain OS (cough, Apple) wanted 30% of that. So Amazon disabled that even on Android. But 1. use the *kindle* app on your phone (will ask you to sign in to Amazon website) or 2. sign into the Amazon website directly, not the app (phone or desktop) or 3. use an actual kindle to buy
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I have uploaded the first piece of my substack series,
The Untimely Musings of a Historian of Ideas 1. horcherf.substack.com/p/the-…
It will come every second week, on Friday.
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Critical editions of the future will detail the textual divergences between branches with names like ManuscriptFinalREVISED.docx and ManuscriptFinalFinalFIXED(1).pdf.
Big news... and true. Tom Shippey's The Complete Old English poems is currently $1.99 on kindle. Get it while it lasts
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Attic was the dialect of Athens, and it's the Ancient Greek most courses teach first.
The Attic Reading Room on Kevilex goes from beginner works like Moss's A First Greek Reader to easy authentic texts like Xenophon's Anabasis.
kevilex.com/library/attic
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Full course on the Great Books added for free!
Highlights by the numbers
• 191 sections based on the 60-volume Great Books set
• 365-day “Great Books in a Year” path (~40 XP/day)
• Ages 8 to adult
• 3 starter rungs (How to Read a Great Book, The Great Conversation, The Syntopicon & Adler)
• Free · no account · public-domain excerpts · family questions · XP practice
The second screenshot is from one of the lessons. It sparked an idea that led to composing music based on math. But I’ll save that for another post.
teddyrookbook.com/great-book…
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I ask you all to join me in the grand crusade of reaching 1,000 subscribers on YouTube. I’m getting closer by the day. I’ve got a video on athletic training in Ancient Greece in the works. I really think you’ll enjoy.
I could really use your help!
Thank you!
Desktop:
youtube.com/@bbherodotus?sub…
Mobile:
openin.app/go/hn9vux
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Did you know all of the ancient Greek and Hebrew books we publish you can download for free on our website?
Spread the word. We are trying to make biblical language education free for all people, especially those who could not otherwise afford it!
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Communist governments killed nearly 100 million of their own people in the 20th century.
In 1997 a team of European historians attempted to add up the tragic deaths. The Black Book of Communism.
Roughly 65 million in China. About 20 million in the Soviet Union. Around 2 million each in Cambodia and North Korea. A million in Vietnam. A million more in Eastern Europe. Then Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Cuba and beyond.
The numbers are too big to wrap your head around, but every one of these 100 million was a real person.
Someone starved in a famine their government caused and then covered up. Someone worked to death in a labor camp. Someone shot in a basement.
Most of them were not killed in war. They were killed in peacetime, by their own governments.
