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[–] perry@lemy.lol 1 points 1 week ago (7 children)
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[–] NicolaHaskell@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Anybody reading Aristophanes in these times of demagogues and world wars? I just finished Birds and Peace. Studies of democracy, Greek hegemony, and hellenization feel like a refresher on familiar problems and their perspectives. I think he was writing about 250 years after Homer, and today we're writing about 250 years after the US framers.

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