Chris M

Need a golden casket confiscated from a Persian baggage train so I can sleep with the Witcher books at my bedside

18.12.2024 19:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s still fun to think “what if he conquered Rome,” but, all the same, that likely wouldn’t have made a difference to the Gauls or others conquered by Rome. Whereas if he hadn’t made it to Gaugamela, the Persians would’ve clapped back in a decade as they did with the Egyptian revolt.

15.12.2024 19:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

moments he could’ve died, not least on the first causeway that went up in smoke thanks to Phoenician ingenuity. And ofc there’s his wounds during the Asian campaign that stand out. At each point, the aftermath would’ve looked profoundly different, esp after depleting Macedonian manpower.

15.12.2024 19:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What fascinates me most about Alexander isn’t what might’ve been had he lived past 323, but what could’ve happened had he died sooner. Obviously there’s source unreliability, but what if Black Cleitus hadn’t saved him at the Granicus? Cilician fever? Tyre? Given the siege’s length there were several

15.12.2024 19:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Phrygian (sometimes called Thracian) cap, 2nd CE Roman statue. Note the distinctively bent top!

They should make beanies like this

15.12.2024 18:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Concern trolls are a miserable bunch. They rile in hate while hiding behind plausible deniability, like “fairness in sports,” “welfare ‘cheaters,’” and, infamously, “ethics in gaming journalism.”

20.09.2023 15:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Timelessly topical

20.09.2023 15:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You’re so talented! I used to study music academically and was especially fascinated by illuminated manuscripts! They’re so beautiful

17.09.2023 13:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Do you think this saying could have caught on in antiquity, similar to how English speakers still use phrases and idioms from Shakespeare half a millennium later?

17.09.2023 13:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s no coincidence civic buildings and banks have façades inspired by ancient Roman temples. They see capitalism and conservatism as rooted in “Western values” extending back to antiquity. It’s a shameless meta narrative that positions their ideology as the “natural order” when it’s anything but.

16.09.2023 17:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0