Iosif Lazaridis
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Research Associate @harvardheb and @hmsgenetics studying history with ancient DNA.
Cambridge, MA
Joined March 2015
This is objectively funny.
Britain should keep the Elgin Marbles. Those trying to undermine our national culture should be taken on, not appeased.
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RT @Jorrit_Kelder: Exciting news —out in the forthcoming issue of JEOL: Mysterious pre-Islamic script from Oman finally deciphered https:/….
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Ancient DNA has much to say about the topic, of course, as we can see if men have children by multiple women or vice versa. Unfortunately this is not conclusive as temporal resolution doesn't usually allow to determine if these are consecutive wives or extra-marital offspring.
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This study argues in favor of Proto-Indo-European monogamy:.
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As far as I can tell, we don't know if Greeks and Romans retained monogamy while other IE groups lost this very globally unusual practice or, if monogamy was a local Aegean innovation that spread first with Greek culture and then with Christianity. end/.
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Romans also seem to have been exclusively monogamous. Their linguistic kin, the Celts, practiced polygamy/polyandry as did many other more distant IE groups, in Europe and Asia and as did Anatolians, so the Greek (and Roman) monogamy is rather the exception 2/.
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This is a good thread, but monogamy didn't start in classical Greece, it was always, as far as we know, the norm among the Greeks (no Homeric hero, for example, has >1 wife, so the evidence goes to the very beginning of Greek literary evidence). 1/.
Monogamy didn’t start with Christianity. Its roots lie in classical Greece and Rome, where it became a civic ideal. In Athens, only children born within wedlock could be citizens. This discouraged elite men from spreading their seed with concubines.
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Cleopatra sneaks into the palace in Alexandria to meet Julius Caesar, 48 BC. "Per Venere! Κλεοπάτρα!"."Δικαιοσύνην, ὦ Καῖσαρ! Καὶ τὴν Αἴγυπτον."
Pericles defines Democracy, 431 BC. "καὶ ὄνομα μὲν διὰ τὸ μὴ ἐς ὀλίγους ἀλλ᾽ ἐς πλείονας οἰκεῖν δημοκρατία κέκληται.". "Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people."
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RT @Jorrit_Kelder: New paper out, in “Assyria and the West”! In it, I argue that the Hartapu inscription from Türkmen-Karahöyük is most li….
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veo3 technically forbids non-English prompts in frame-to-video, but can be fooled with a Greco-Latin hodge-podge like the following: "και όνομα μεν ντια to μέες ολίγκους, αλλ' es πλέϊονας οϊκέϊν, ντεεμοκρατία κέκλεεταϊ!"" => a not-bad approximation of ancient Greek.
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Pericles defines Democracy, 431 BC. "καὶ ὄνομα μὲν διὰ τὸ μὴ ἐς ὀλίγους ἀλλ᾽ ἐς πλείονας οἰκεῖν δημοκρατία κέκληται.". "Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people."
Plato's Hope (7th Epistle). "κακῶν οὖν οὐ λήξειν τὰ ἀνθρώπινα γένη, πρὶν ἂν ἢ τὸ τῶν φιλοσοφούντων ὀρθῶς γε καὶ ἀληθῶς γένος εἰς ἀρχὰς ἔλθῃ τὰς πολιτικὰς"
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Leonidas gives an answer at Thermopylae
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RT @MarcHaber: Our new paper on genetic diversity in the Himalayas, when it began and how it may have supported survival in extreme environ….
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Plato's Hope (7th Epistle). "κακῶν οὖν οὐ λήξειν τὰ ἀνθρώπινα γένη, πρὶν ἂν ἢ τὸ τῶν φιλοσοφούντων ὀρθῶς γε καὶ ἀληθῶς γένος εἰς ἀρχὰς ἔλθῃ τὰς πολιτικὰς"
Epicurus speaks his Tetrapharmakos. "Ἄφοβον ὁ θεός, ἀνύποπτον ὁ θάνατος· καὶ τἀγαθὸν μὲν εὔκτητον, τὸ δὲ δεινὸν εὐεκκαρτέρητον."
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Epicurus speaks his Tetrapharmakos. "Ἄφοβον ὁ θεός, ἀνύποπτον ὁ θάνατος· καὶ τἀγαθὸν μὲν εὔκτητον, τὸ δὲ δεινὸν εὐεκκαρτέρητον."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"
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Alexander and Bucephalas, morning at Gaugamela
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