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by billd89
Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:33 pm
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Philodemus, new text on Plato?
Replies: 2
Views: 109

I was Curious

Among the most important news, we read that Plato was buried in the garden reserved for him (a private area intended for the Platonic school) of the Academy in Athens, near the so-called Museion or sacellum sacred to the Muses. Until now it was only known that he was buried somewhere in the Academy...
by billd89
Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:25 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Two and a half theories on "Theodore" handwriting
Replies: 2
Views: 86

(Related) Forgery Website

Ken mentioned site this three years ago: http://www.forgingantiquity.com/forgeries I think Choat's "Forging antiquities: the case of papyrus fakes" is known here, although it has not been mentioned before? https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Forging-Antiquities%3A-The-Case-of-Papyrus-Fak...
by billd89
Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:35 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Two and a half theories on "Theodore" handwriting
Replies: 2
Views: 86

Re: Occam's Razor

Half-wise, MS could have asked Greek scholars (in addition to paleographic publications) to teach him about the then ductus practice and ligatures, so he could better read, and transcribe, and translate texts, without making then actual accomplices. All-wise, otherwise, MS could have handed a prepa...
by billd89
Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:25 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Rory Boid's Comments to Russell Gmirkin on Academia.edu which Reference his Work at this Forum
Replies: 2
Views: 143

Re: Samaritan Joshua

So far I haven't looked at this website, but now I will have to get access to it and publicise what is false and what is true. Ruairidh Bóid Dear God. Threats , while wringing his hands lol Umbrage or Outrage? I cannot tell which. https://149674310.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/chu...
by billd89
Sat Apr 27, 2024 10:51 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: The Catamites of Tiberius?
Replies: 13
Views: 672

Ousia: a few examples in Philo Judaeus

I will say that I do not buy into the mystical beliefs projected by romantic moderns, scholars or not, into Philo's work. Really? Quod Deus sit immutabilis 46. ψυχῆς γὰρ ὄψις οὗτος οἰκείαις περιλαμπόμενος αὐγαῖς, δι’ ὧν ὁ πολὺς καὶ βαθὺς ζόφος, ὃν κατέχεεν ἄγνοια τῶν πραγμάτων, ἀνασκίδναται. τοῦτο ...
by billd89
Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:08 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
Replies: 75
Views: 179456

Re: Hermetic Influence on Philo

I found your 2021 post describing your beliefs about Philo, and the influence of Hermetic literature on him: ... No, that post really doesn't describe my (adopted) thesis that the Hermetica /Hermetic sub-culture influenced Philo; others do. For examples: this , this , this , this , this , especiall...
by billd89
Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:23 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Critical Study on Chronology of the Ancient World
Replies: 44
Views: 64168

"Sovietization of History" in 2024

Soviet Lies are baaaaaaack ... the Neo-Soviets are book-burning the history they would erase completely. And looting everything else. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/23/russia-ukraine-cultural-genocide-looting-indoctrination-deporatation/ Russian academics have created an Orwellian 98-page glossar...
by billd89
Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:40 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
Replies: 75
Views: 179456

In DVC, The Passion of Craving = Epithumia

'Craving/Desire' is unspecified by character, in the List of Maladies that the Therapeutae can cure. 2. ἡ δὲ προαίρεσις τῶν φιλοσόφων εὐθὺς ἐμφαίνεται διὰ τῆς προσρήσεως· θεραπευταὶ γὰρ καὶ θεραπευτρίδες ἐτύμως καλοῦνται, ἤτοι παρόσον ἰατρικὴν ἐπαγγέλλονται κρείσσονα τῆς κατὰ πόλεις — ἡ μὲν γὰρ σώμα...
by billd89
Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:41 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: The Catamites of Tiberius?
Replies: 13
Views: 672

Re: Perspective

Don't open your veins, and spare the hemlock. We live now. The document that survived was surely 'corrupted' in little ways by other hands. I believe that possibility is obvious for everything that came down as canon literature. That doesn't make it False to my mind, however. I remember all the talk...