Lantern Jack
@DrLanternJack
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Author "The Invention of Duty," host @greecepodcast, director @anacyclosis_org, PhD ancient philosophy, former hitchhiker and busker.
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Joined September 2016
After a year of work... We’re thrilled to present the first installment in an 11-episode series on PLATO’s REPUBLIC. The series will feature some of the foremost scholars who work on Plato today. #philosophy #philosophytwitter
https://t.co/ncoZYyc8fZ
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How would you translate this phrase?
τὸ σοφὸν δ´ οὐ σοφία. —-Euripides ‘Intelligence is not cleverness’.
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Modern philosophy is a pale shadow of ancient philosophy. P.S. I wish this weren’t the case. P.P.S. If any scholar wants to challenge me on this they are welcome on my show.
So what's everyone's most controversial philosophy take?
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MOVING WORDS by a teacher who lost hope. The problem? It’s obviously written by ChatGPT. All the hallmarks are there, from phrases like “No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty,” to the use of em-dashes preceded & followed by spaces (no human does that). Why do this?
A message from a Kindergarten teacher: After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old: “My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.” No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s
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*Epic* way to open…
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Adults with neurodiversity can face mobility challenges that limit their independence & employment. See how Waymo could help.
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Let's turn X into a repository of human wisdom. My contribution: a full, expert-led summary and explanation of Plato's REPUBLIC — probably the single greatest work of philosophy ever written. Take a break from the noise and dive in! Timestamps 00:00 Introduction to the
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What’s that? You want a complete summary of Plato’s REPUBLIC and explanation of its meaning, done by two scholars of ancient philosophy? Oh ok, sure: https://t.co/awC9QqPEcG
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🔥 In 494 BCE, the proud Ionian city of Miletus faced Persia’s wrath. After the defeat at Lade, the Persians besieged and stormed the city. Miletus was destroyed, its people enslaved or deported — a tragic end to the Ionian Revolt. 🎙️ Hear the full story in Casting Through
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Before spears were thrown at Mantinea in 418 BC, diplomacy nearly toppled Sparta. Alcibiades forged a coalition of Argos, Mantinea, and Elis to isolate Sparta, and even Tegea—Sparta’s oldest ally—considered defecting. The Peloponnesian League was on the verge of collapse.
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It has become fashionable recently to "debunk" the "Myth of Sparta." IOW to claim the Spartans were actually *not* great fighters, & that their fearsome reputation was a "bronze lie." But if that's true, how did Sparta dominate Greece for 2 centuries? Here's a fresh take, ft.
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Lantern Jack of the Ancient Greece Declassified podcast interviewed me last week on the subject of Ancient Greek and Latin novels - here's the video version: https://t.co/IYXJLlyuK7. 😊
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New episodes from L&H on the Talmud and Gregory of Tours. (Sorry, haven't been on X in a year!) Also, the podcast's website is completely rebuilt and we'll be releasing episodes on the 15th of each month from here on out.
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There is so much AI-generated garbage now on @YouTube Wouldn't it be great if, in addition to a "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" button, there was also an "AI garbage" button, so users could quickly label such "content" and save others the trouble of watching it?
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New episode on the birth of democracy in ancient Athens and the causes of the Greco-Persian Wars. https://t.co/PPJau14dhS
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The three decades from 508-478BC were possibly the most consequential in all of ancient history. In this episode and the next, we tell the story of the Greco-Persian Wars through the eyes of Themis...
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I'm so done with fb. I worked quite a bit to build my page's following. But this has happened too many times now, and I basically can't even alert my followers that a new episode is out.
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I try to let FB know that my posts are NOT about current politics. The only option I see is the "If you think this is a mistake, please try again" button. I click on that, the "boost" is again blocked. I click again and then my ad account is suspened due to "unusual activity."
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Clarification: my podcast's page has a few thousand followers. But hardly any of them will see any new post unless I "boost" it. Ok fine, fb, I'll pay a little to boost each post. But then I get blocked every time [ancient Greek] "democracy" is mentioned.
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Facebook is really unbelievable! My podcast is on ANCIENT history. But when I try to post episodes on ancient democracy (which NEVER mention current parties or politicians) fb blocks me! It says I need to register my organization in order to promote political or social issues.🧵
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Which of these podcast episode titles would you be most likely to click on? (Other suggestions welcome 👇) 1) The War that Forged Western Civilization 2) Fire in the Cradle of Democracy (The Persian Wars, Part 1) 3) Thirty Years that Changed the World Forever (509-479 BC)
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A great opportunity to explore Greece with expert guides and a bunch of fellow history geeks 👇
Come and explore Greece with me! The next Ancient Greece Declassified podcast tour will be this January. The theme this time will be the PERSIAN WARS. Get more info and sign up here: https://t.co/VYXZJckyYG
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