Death by wooden tortoise

Philonic anti-urbanism

Now *that's* a close reading.

Stoic cosmos

Barbarian bed

Ink

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Generating fictional footnotes in fictional books

Psellus - Prophetic powers among animals

Silver tetradrachm depicting the famous Scylla 414 BC. From Akragas (Agrigento), Sicily.

Scylla

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Anna Comnena's early education

Advantage of the Byzantinist

Sybarites in the streets

Erasmus on the proverb 'make haste slowly'

ἀνάπλωσις, εως, ἡ (anaplōsis) —unfolding; explanation, Alex.Aphr. in Metaph. 467.8. —unfolding, evolution, ἡ τῶν λόγων ἐξέλιξις καὶ ἀ. Plot. 5.7.3; opp. συνείλησις —simplification, Dam. Pr. 26,70

Marble Akroterion, Greek, Attic, ca. 350–325 B.C.

Zoroaster / The Adventures of Er