this is my fav bc an actual major cause for the fall of rome was the resistance of the wealthy to paying taxes which led to a crumbling of infrastructure but who cares about thaaaaat
“Feminism killed Rome” is my new favorite sentence of all time.
Also ballooning military spending, a widening gap between rich and poor, religious intolerance following the Emperor’s embrace of Christianity, and lead poisoning of the water supply.
*looks at camera*
So I found this cool website for learning ancient languages
go wild
holy fuck
I just did a quick perusal of the Coptic resources on this site, and it has all the resources I’ve personally found worthwhile and then some. These are resources that took me months, if not years, to discover and compile. I am thoroughly impressed. The other languages featured on the site are:
- Akkadian
- Arabic
- Aramaic
- Church Slavonic
- Egyptian (hieroglyphics and Demotic)
- Elamite
- Ethiopic (Ge’ez)
- Etruscan
- Gaulish
- Georgian
- Gothic
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hittite
- Latin
- Mayan (various related languages/dialects)
- Old Chinese
- Old English
- Old French
- Old Frisian
- Old High German
- Old Irish
- Old Norse
- Old Persian
- Old Turkic
- Sanskrit
- Sumerian
- Syriac
- Ugaritic
For the love of all the gods, if you ever wanted to learn any of these languages, use this site.
Likely helpful for various recon-oriented polytheists.
The Greek empire at its territorial peak, 323 BC.
#This is because of Alexander isnt it
Actually yes it absolutely is.
What happens when you leave your precocious 16 year old home alone with the fully-gassed army, his boyfriend, and an overly permissive babysitter named Aristotle.
No, literally. He stole his father’s army while he was away and invaded the neighboring kingdom.
SIMON THANK YOU FOR THIS
I read the words “Fully gassed army, his boyfriend, and an overly permissive babysitter named Aristotle” and snorted coffee all over my desk, because this is the most beautifully true and eloquent way of summarizing Alexander’s formative years I’ve ever seen.
And for others; he did. He absolutely did. This led to some Tension in the family, and when Philip of Macedon was killed there was rampant speculation that Alexander or his mother were behind the killing.
She was. She absolutely was.
I KNEW IT.
Hazel Scott playing two pianos at the same damn time with ease
Hazel Scott was a musical sorcerer and a civil rights hero. She:
- was admitted to Julliard at 8.
- was performing in top venues by 16.
- pioneered “swinging the classics” and made the equivalent of a million dollars a year doing it.
- was the first person of color to have their own national TV show.
- went to Hollywood but refused to be cast as a “singing maid.” Demanded and got control over her casting, her wardrobe, and how footage featuring her was cut.
- refused to perform in segregated venues and led charges for integration in several northern cities, notably Spokane.
She was brought down by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, and has been largely forgotten. But she was a sorcerer, and a hero.
Let’s un-forget her.
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