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Costin Alamariu
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I want to study foods and wines on video. I want to eat ancient Roman Emperor style. My college homework: https://t.co/J1SNYrQnYJ
May 20 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Scattered thoughts on Romanian election: note I don’t keep up with Romanian news and have never voted or involved myself in politics there in any way and have no interest to. But I am interested in 2025 results for what they say demographically about future of southeast Europe… The decisive winner Nicusor Dan is a white Romanian the supposed nationalist candidate Simion is swarthy and boorish. Over last election cycles the swarthy and “rough mannered” candidate has always lost regardless of ideology. For better or worse such things matter in Romania
Mar 30, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Bacchylides is a lesser known lyric poet who like Pindar wrote athletic victory odes. Although he’s often disparaged when compared to Pindar I think this is a kind of unwarranted snobbery especially if you want to learn about ancient Greek aristo ideals. Short thread:

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Image This is a typical and relatively in tact ode to Hieron tyrant of Syracuse for his sponsorship of a winning chariot team at Olympia. As in Pindar’s odes, these would be commissioned to celebrate a victory…continuation of more ancient bards’ celebrations of battle victories
Nov 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Libanius was one of the last great pagan thinkers of antiquity, lived 4th C AD; in his Apology of Socrates he has Anytus, Socrates’ accuser, make the claim that Socrates was fond of using this passage from Pindar to teach young men violent lawlessness and disregard for justice.
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Image Whether Socrates actually was using this passage, in this form for this purpose is interesting but a separate question from fact that this appears to be a popular accusation from multiple sources, and possibly grounded in popular tradition…
Oct 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
My grandfather from my Jewish side speaking at a Communist Party rally some time in the late 1930's I think. After the war he was one of the founders of the first Communist regime in Romania. I believe he did mostly something related to propaganda. He is the one speaking. Image Here he is getting ready to speak. He's the one in the middle, looking down. I think he was quite handsome! Image