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I just store my posts over at Substack here. Though it’s unlikely that I write anything that is offensive enough for me to lose access to them, it’s still nice to have a copy.
And not only Catullus.
There is apparently an audience for PG poems from ancient and medieval times if my previous post is of any indication. And though I do not particularly enjoy this sort of thing,...
Read more...I'd want to be Diogenes too!
I’d want to be Diogenes too! Diogenes the Cynic (Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός) seems to be the Internet’s favorite philosopher. He lived around the fifth and fourth centuries BCE with...
Read more...I am my own grandpa!
I am my own grandpa! What does Alcuin of York, Anglo-Saxon philosopher at Charlemagne’s court, have in common with a medieval India folk tale contained in the Vetālapañcaviṃśati...
Read more...Of course not. He was actually Chinese.
Of course not. He was actually Chinese. Fig: Bodhnath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal. This is Bodhnath Stupa in central Kathmandu, Nepal. It is a beautiful structure and quite old; it...
Read more...Or the Tocharians
Or the Tocharians Before being swept away by Turkic and Mongolic groups in the first and second millennium CE, Central Asia and the Eurasian steppe was full of Indo-European...
Read more...Mostly collected from Major Anthologies
Mostly collected from Major Anthologies (The following post contains explicit material.) Erotic Poetry (śṛṅgāra) might be the only genre of Sanskrit poetry that is well represented...
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