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@AmericanGwyn @ArysPan And for expansive context, Daniel Mendelsohn’s Three Rings.

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@theo_nash @subhanusaxena @sentantiq Nor mine. Sunt lacrimae rerum. Easy enough to comprehend, but translate into English? Another matter altogether.

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@DAMendelsohnNYC @cur8orofearth @getty_a96716 @holland_tom @TheRestHistory BTW, Spelling Bee today accepts Arcadia, but not caryatid. Sigh.

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@DAMendelsohnNYC @cur8orofearth @getty_a96716 @holland_tom @TheRestHistory I have always wondered if Helen ages, or shows the effects of aging. Perhaps that could create some interesting images for a filmmaker. In flashbacks to the war Helen and the other characters all appear young. In the narrative present she remains youthful and others have aged.

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@DAMendelsohnNYC My favorite Wordle to date.

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@NotHoodlum I saw her in New Orleans on consecutive nights as she started her tour after the release of Private Dancer. Absolutely the two hottest shows I have ever experienced. Unforgettable! She was the greatest.

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@DAMendelsohnNYC @nytimes @odysseymovie @UChicagoPress @PenguinClassics @AAKnopf @vintagebooks @BardCollege Bravo! Finally some worthwhile commentary about Helen, almost certainly the most enigmatic character in the Geek tradition. She is unique, other - not like us. She shares this otherness with Achilles. Perhaps Nolan understands this and deliberately cast her to stand apart.

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@baharkarakrt 1

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@MocklerBassets Textiles WILL pay!

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@BeschlossDC So what’s the story on his Roman citizenship?

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@RadioFreeTom Ewww

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@AntigoneJournal Many, many good choices! Here’s a rephrasing of the question: what lost work’s recovery would have an impact closest to the recovery of de Rerum Natura?

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@DAMendelsohnNYC What lost work among the remaining scrolls could have an impact on our age equal to that of de Rerum Natura on the early Renaissance?

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@DAMendelsohnNYC And paten - another “obsolete” religious term, I reckon.

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@tolkienthoughts The History of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire is a work that every English gentleman believes he has read. Don’t know the source. Trollope, perhaps.

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@DAMendelsohnNYC @mcgillmd921 Indeed. I was recently pleased to see my impromptu effort, greeted with curdling amusement by two of the readers who wanted obeisance to German orthodoxy, largely vindicated by Morstein-Marx in his “Julius Caesar” - a rare solace this late in life.

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@DAMendelsohnNYC @mcgillmd921 After the wave of nausea passed, I did manage to cobble together something marginally coherent.

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Ah, yes. And Syme’s Roman Revolution. I recall that in my oral defense one reader thanked me for my fluent regurgitation of their reading of the events leading up to Pharsalus and invited me to propose an alternative explanation based on my understanding of the primary sources. 😮

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@Kesthecollie And still no mice?

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@mcgillmd921 Hadrian. And yes, it would be appropriate to meet in the Pantheon. If he declines, Augustus