Me in ancient Greece pouring over sailing timetables written on clay tablets
Me in ancient Greece pouring over sailing timetables written on clay tablets
Me in ancient Greece pouring over sailing timetables written on clay tablets
Triremespotting (300BCE)
Can we get this as a site tag?
@CARCOSA@hexbear.net tagline
Me in Workers and Resources watching my trucks drive around: "I'm just so happy they're safe"
This makes me happier than I expected. Like, way happier.
i fucking love autistic people
Primordial traingang
RIP Thrasyllus, you would have loved Eve Online
Anybody have the actual source for this book? Would love to read it, little anecdotes about Ancient Greeks sound like a wonderful vibe
Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, Book XII, Chapter 80: https://www.loebclassics.com/view/atheneus_grammarian-learned_banqueters/2007/pb_LCL327.219.xml?readMode=recto (A non-paywalled source with an older translation: (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2013.01.0003%3Abook%3D12%3Achapter%3D80) )
For more anecdote collections - Plutarch's Moralia, Volume III ; for the Romans, Valerius Maximus's Memorable Doings and Sayings
Aulus Gellius's Attic Nights is good, too, but it's more on the philological anecdote side
You may also enjoy Theophrastus's Characters
(Final edit - spelling)
I don't know this book, but read The Histories by Herodotus. It's a bunch of mostly made up stories that have this flavor
To the last bit about rejoicing when ships return home safely, I ma reminded of a poem by some old English dude:
No man is an island,
Entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
As well as if a promontory were:
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were.
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
Thrasyllus was shipping polymorous. The doctor cured him of his compersion and now he is only happy when a ship he OWNS comes to the harbour safely.
I grew up on the Great lakes watching freighters. Do I have some sort of mania? I will drive to a city where they dock just to get close to them at times.
Brb gonna call my teledoc that was provided by work instead of real insurance and tell them all about it
Franz Ferdinand and Kaiser Whilhelm were both also obsessed with ships.
Whilhelm always wanted to race his uncle in their yachts and was given an honourary British Navy uniform which he loved so much he'd wear whenever grandma Vicky came to visit
Can’t have this guy be happy about his hobby and that people made it home safe. That’s weird.
It might not have been
neurodivergenceAutism (or it alone). If he had OCD, the prospects of ships not returning might have caused significant distress (obsession) and going to check gives relief (compulsion).I'm more interested how he was "cured".
Is OCD not neurodivergent?