Pymander's ghost

relic seeker.

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"I suppose you're right," Socrates said.
"Of course I'm right," the priestess Diotima said.

(Symp. 206e)

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@caesarisattva I always tell my historical and material culture colleagues (in late antiquity, admittedly): glad someone is doing it, and that it doesn't have to be me.

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As a general rule it is better to be someone who is very interested in classical literature and philosophy than one who is very interested in classical history.

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@FrancosGhost @realKalos Children with down syndrome naturally have an extremely high mortality rate; only with the advent of modern medical technology is this even a live discussion. It is very much 'self-induced' and elective in this respect.

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@actualsnek_ Yes

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I have access to my online university library catalogue for another 5 months. Downloading everything I can and welcoming suggestions.

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@teufelsdung Unfortunately none of these are digitised in my catalogue, just checked

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Source: Nagarjuna, Ratnavali (tr. Jeffrey Hopkins, "Nagarjuna's Precious Garland", p. 80)

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@Iamblichos32 @Daseincel It reads like detective fiction

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@Tom_Rowsell @DrFrancisYoung When will people learn to use Zotero

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@realKalos Nagarjuna is one of the rare few that not only meets but exceeds the hype

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An unshakeable conviction in providence is the most necessary precondition for rising above mere survival towards actually living.

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Unironically everyone should read Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius

[Henry Vaughan @silexsc]

Any favorite biographies of philosophers?

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'He is bodiless and many-bodied; or rather, he is all-bodied. There is nothing that he is not, for he also is all that is, and this is why he has all names, because they are of one father, and this is why he has no name, because he is father of them all.' (Corpus Hermeticum 5.10)

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Malatesta "ended up bringing Plethon's remains from Greece...and placing them in" his "quasi-pagan temple" (p. 81)

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Reading this.
"Pagan themes dominate Sigismondo’s culture and imagined life from the revival of the ancient paideia, the Greek athletic ideal, and Sigismondo’s Spartan upbringing to his sexual exploits and the astrological heights of his search for immortality..."

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'...by that torchlight Eleusinian shore
Where pilgrims come, whose lips the golden key
of sweet-voiced Ministers has rendered still.
To cherish there with grave Persephone
consummate rest from death and mortal ill'

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus vv. 1047ff (tr. Fitzgerald)

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'A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment'
(Lord Byron, Detached Thoughts §96)

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‘Our Plato has admirably conjoined both ways into one: he is in all his writings as much religious as philosopher’
(Plato noster utramque viam mirabiliter coniunxit in unum et ubique religiosus est pariter atque philosophus)

Ficino to Martin Prenninger (ed. Klibansky, p. 45)