Me in ancient Greece pouring over sailing timetables written on clay tablets

But his brother, returning from Sicily, handed him over to a doctor to be cured, and in this way he recovered from the illness.

he had never been so happy as when he rejoiced at the sight of ships which did not belong to him returning safely.

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 ~~neurodivergence~~ Autism (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?

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)
- Oh wow, this is amazing. How have I never even heard of The Learned Banqueters?? This is an insane work, exactly what I'm looking for! I really ought to learn Ancient Greek one of these days.
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.

I didn't realize that the whole sentiment of the poem was that humanist. I've only ever heard the last two lines in different contexts and transformed. It's a beautiful piece of art and much more positive (neutral?) than I understood it to be.
- Yeah its one of my favorite poems, so kind

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