Jorge Torres - Hermes Kalamos

Twitter personal sobre asuntos relacionados con la 📚 Cultura 🏛️ Historia ⚔️Política. Colaboro como editor en Hermes Kalamos del @Inst_Symposium

RT ≠ Endorse

[Jorge Torres - Hermes Kalamos @Mte_Helicon]

No dejo "X" pero voy a bajar, aún más, el perfil. Para aguas más amables y entornos de debate más sanos y prolíficos os animo a que me sigáis en la siguiente Red Social #BlueSky si andáis por allá o lo tenéis pensando.

https://t.co/EV6Me4NT9s

Pues vamos a darle algo de vidilla.

[Jorge Torres - Hermes Kalamos @Mte_Helicon]

@ArdeBizancio @DarinaMarty @femverbipotens @PueblosNegrosUC @ossaetpulvis @Pixelskaya @PijusMagnificvs @Lanciense @Sarusquilla_ @BeaBarrio @CarlosM55493311 @jon Gracias a ti y a tu compi por el trabajazo que os dais. Unos programas súper interesantes y con cantidad de anécdotas y conocimiento. Disfrutad del verano y el merecido descanso 😄❤️

[G. Soriano / Arde Bizancio @ArdeBizancio]

Gracias a toda la buena gente que estuvo con nosotros este año. Aquí encontraréis a: @DarinaMarty @femverbipotens @Mte_Helicon @PueblosNegrosUC @ossaetpulvis @Pixelskaya @PijusMagnificvs @Lanciense @Sarusquilla_ @BeaBarrio @CarlosM55493311 @jon

[@bizantinistica@🐘.🌍 @bizantinistica]

Seminario: «The Hidden Greek in the Palimpsests of the Biblioteca Capitolare in Verona: codd. CXX & CXXXIV»

Fecha y lugar: 18 y 19 de junio 2026 / Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona (18 de junio) y Aula 2.5 del Palazzo di Lingue de Verona (19 de junio)

[Jorge Torres - Hermes Kalamos @Mte_Helicon]

@AGROS_edu In Barcelona, in the Corpus Christi there is a curious tradition to put an egg in a fountain and let it dance. The image is an official text explaining the subject ❤️ every year me and my wife take a tour and take a look in the cloisters of churches or official buildings.

[Chrysoloras @Alyunan00]

How to piss off a Pope…

Basileus Michael III "Methysos" ( 840-867 AD) had his way. We know it from a letter that has not survived, but we have Pope Nicholas I extremely furious response, where he comes back to refute Michael's insults several times in the same letter.

We know one thing for certain...Michael had a thing with Latin.

"You were driven into such an ovelwhelming frenzy, that you insulted the Latin language calling it in your letter barbaric and Skythian, which is an insult to him who created this language, because every denigration of a work entails also an insult to its author. Oh, what fury, which has not even spared the language which was created by God ....

We are dismayed that your majesty is not ashamed: for it is the language of Christian peoples which you call barbaric and Skythian. Is it not well known that all barbarians and Skythians live like ignorant animals, that they do not know the true God, but worship trees and stones? From this, of course, one can see how much the Latin language, which worships the true God, surpasses the barbarian and Skythian language.

Furthermore, if you call the Latin language barbaric, because you do not understand Latin, you should be careful: is it not ridiculous to call yourself emperor of the Romans when you do not know the language of the Romans?

And finally, you call the language under discussion barbaric for the simple reason that by translating Latin into Greek certain barbarisms were generated.

This, though, we believe, is not the fault of the Latin language but the fault of interpreters, who tried to force words out of words rather than, as is necessary, to produce meaning out of meaning.

In fact, in the beginning of your letter you call yourself 'emperor of the Romans', but you are not afraid to call the Roman language barbaric! In truth, every day, especially on the occasion of major ceremonies, you set into the Greek language as if it were a precious jewel exactly what you call a barbarian and Skythian language! And you do so as if you would diminish your majesty if you were to refrain from using Latin words in your retinue and offices - even though these words are not used properly or perfectly understood. So, abandon the title 'emperor of the Romans', because according to your own opinion they are barbarians whose emperor you claim to be!"

Source/Translation from Latin:

Reanimation of Roman law in the ninth century: remarks on reasons and results, Marie Theres Fagen/ Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive? 1996

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[Chrysoloras @Alyunan00]

Amazon Melanippe (Μελανίππη), sister of the Amazon queen Hippolyte (Ἱππολύτη), mosaic from ancient Edessa (today Haleplibahçe...), 5th century AD.

[Al-Andalus y la Historia @AndalusHistoria]

La Universitat de Lleida crearà l'arxiu més gran del món sobre l'alta edat mitjana
https://t.co/mD9TMhS4Iv

[Chrysoloras @Alyunan00]

Greek speaking villages in Cappadocia, early 20th century.

The dialects of Cappadocian (left) and Pharasiot Greek (right):

[ὁ Κέφαλος | AGROS education @AGROS_edu]

Happy feast to all who celebrate!

Fun fact: The German name of Corpus Christi is Fronleichnam, from the Middle High German 'vrône lîcham' (the Lord's body). "Fron-" (frô, Lord) is not readily understood by today's German speakers, i.e. by me before I looked up the etymology. 😅

[Jorge Torres - Hermes Kalamos @Mte_Helicon]

@ArdeBizancio https://t.co/El22ZaIGLu

🤣🤣🤣🤣🙏

[G. Soriano / Arde Bizancio @ArdeBizancio]

🔥¡Por cierto! Recordad que, aparte de subir cosas, también soy medievalista, con especialidad en bizantinismo.
❔Cualquier persona con dudas sobre la época, preguntas, o cuestiones que me quiera comentar: puede.
🗣️Tanto aquí, como en mis dm's, toda la gente es bienvenida.

[Bigotes y Brulotes @BigotesBrulotes]

¡NUEVO PROGRAMA!

Hoy hablamos de uno de los acontecimientos más influyentes en las relaciones greco-turcas y que, como conflicto congelado, sigue marcando agenda en cuestiones del Mediterráneo.

Ya está disponible en iVoox y Spotify (enlaces en el perfil).
Gracias por escucharlo

[Jorge Torres - Hermes Kalamos @Mte_Helicon]

@RaminNasibov @elonmusk Age of Empires, Elder scrolls IV, Simcity, Command and Conquer, The Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, Indy and the Fate of Atlantis … and so many others ❤️🙏

[G. Soriano / Arde Bizancio @ArdeBizancio]

🗺️Mapa de Piri Reis (1513)
Este célebre marino y cartógrafo otomano del s.XVI creó grande obras como es este mapa, donde ya se delimita la costa de América a un lado, y África con la Península al otro, con referencias a descubrimientos o mitos de la época.

[Jorge Torres - Hermes Kalamos @Mte_Helicon]

@FernandoHS61 La lógica de los partidos de notables y la desarticulación de los de masas … es que prefiero ni pensarlo.

Por cierto, espero que fuera muy bien en BCN el otro día, me fue imposible pasar.

[G. Soriano / Arde Bizancio @ArdeBizancio]

🔥En un día como hoy, pero de 1453, ardió Bizancio.
Feliz día de la caída de la emperatriz de las ciudades 😉

[Μιχαὴλ Πολιάκωβος @MichaelPoliako3]

Ὁ Ὅρκος τοῦ Ἱπποκράτους καὶ ἡ μετάφρασίς του εἰς τὴν νέαν ἑλληνικὴν γλῶσσαν.

[Héraklès Citharède @HeraklesCithare]

Magnifique édition de l’Odyssée à paraître aux @BellesLettresEd le 8 juillet prochain🏺avec la belle traduction annotée de Victor Bérard parue en 1927, un entretien avec Jacqueline de Romilly, une postface de Jean-Pierre Vernant et de merveilleuses illustrations et planches de style Art déco.

L’Odyssée, Homère. 506p, 26€90. Les Belles Lettres🦉