Yi Liu 逸之

Studies Ancient Greek poetry and comparative antiquities at @princeton. ig:yizyliu

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

@vivian_e @iosif_lazaridis Very impressive. The result is not at all incongruous with what we have of ancient Greek music.
Rhythmically, modally, and compositionally - very respectable indeed.

[Yi Liu 逸之 @yizyliu]

@phl43 Don’t you agree that communists are still worse than these people?

[Yi Liu 逸之 @yizyliu]

@wil_da_beast630 Every kid was infected with parasites, me included, in the early 2000s in China

[Yi Liu 逸之 @yizyliu]

@BeijingDai Machus never used “traditional” surnames. They used first names only.

[Yi Liu 逸之 @yizyliu]

@iwsfutcmd Perfectly standard Classical Chinese. Perfectly standard for all official documents to be in Classcial Chinese in the 1940s. Lasted until at least the 1970s in Taiwan. Still pretty standard in TW/Hongkong today though with deteriorating style.

[Yi Liu 逸之 @yizyliu]

“The railways are destroying the fengshui”. We’ve all seen this script before. Peak third worldism.

[Ben Landau-Taylor @benlandautaylor]

When I was younger I'd read about the Ottoman empire banning the printing press or whatever and I'd think "Why on Earth would they do that? They can't all have been that retarded, can they?" but unfortunately I get it now.

[Theo Nash @theo_nash]

If you want to see how a Classicist and translator of the Odyssey can produce a rich and meaningful review of Nolan’s film which nevertheless is reasonably negative in its final verdict, Mendelsohn provides an excellent foil to Wilson.

[T. Greer @Scholars_Stage]

I will defend Helen on this point, to a point.

By “normal” I am taking her to mean “individuals did not exist in a state of daily fear and stress, or they were unable to make meaningful plans because life was subject to too many upheavals to ever do so.”

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

This is excellent from @ZhugeYY.

[Sturgeon's Law @Sturgeons_Law]

Yes, and she's still a PhD student in the US. But she was also featured in Vogue China, invited to Chinese Ralph Lauren events with celebrities, interviewing Christopher Nolan, etc. We aren't doing that with her or with anyone like her here in the US. There is a real difference.

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

You don’t really know an ancient language if you can’t translate into it, and you can’t translate well into Greek or Latin prose or verse unless you grasp how the ancients thought and articulated their thoughts.

It’s a skill that takes a lot of reading, learning, immersion in texts, and observation of style and idiom.

It takes years of hard work, but there’s deep joy in it and at the end of it.

[Yi Liu 逸之 @yizyliu]

@ArtemisConsort But you certainly know the evolutioanary reason for this psychology? So maybe you got a little emotional in saying this?

[Yi Liu 逸之 @yizyliu]

Proof that Mandate of Heaven exists in Sumerian thought

[Orel Beilinson @BeilinsonOrel]

My advice for students starting a PhD in history this fall: Learn another language. You will never be as free of obligations as in these early years. Programs & funding are being cut; the opportunity might never present itself again. You never know how it may change your career.

[Athanasius @Athanasius_45]

A Homeric Greek translation of Vergil’s Aeneid and Georgics. By Eugenios Voulgaris (1716–1806), a Greek polymath and bishop. Both translations apparently faired very poorly among critics at the time. But judge for yourself:

Vol I: https://t.co/Wm9agByKUf

[Yi Liu 逸之 @yizyliu]

@GarettJones Nazi members whose descendants emigrated to the USA — so these are not political extremists but selected, non-ideologically motivated, socioeconomic elites who went with the tides and joined the party due to social conformity

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

The way the war in Iran has progressed suggests that “the United States may be able to carry out far more effective operations against China” than U.S. defense analysts assumed, writes Carter Malkasian.
https://t.co/9fyizGS1h5

[Theodore Beers @theodorebeers]

Recommend joining one of these groups. They're free.

I read The Magic Mountain with them last summer, Xunzi in the fall, and now am most of the way through Don Quixote.

I hope to lead a group someday, something Persian, maybe the Gulshan-i Rāz in Whinfield's translation.

[Theodore Beers @theodorebeers]

@levantophile Browne learned Arabic, Persian, and Turkish simultaneously, in part by studying a classic Ottoman trilingual anthology of poetry called the Kharābāt. An education that we would bring back if we had any sense!

[Yi Liu 逸之 @yizyliu]

@phl43 It doesn’t make sense because it is an info war red herring. The actual plan is to weaken the security apparatus sufficiently and then take Tehran directly Bay of Pigs style by opposition forces trained and armed by Mossad/CIA months ago.