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Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller)
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Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller)
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She was referred to as Ishtar in Akkadian.
Karmer was not a poet, but Diane Wolkstein is. In this volume, Wolkstein takes Kramer's translations and notes and reworks the myths of Inanna in to aesthetically pleasing poetry.
In a truly just society though, every potential ruler has been brought up and trained to value justice before anything else. In the city sketched in Plato's dialogue, citizens would no longer need to fear the possibility of a bad ruler. With this fear removed, the philosopher imagines that a society
With both Jacobsen and Kramer, it is important to keep in mind that several decades of new scholarship have been published since they originally published their own translations. If you start to study a specific text or myth using a resource that allows you to search scholarly articles,
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full of just citizens will compete over not having to spend time ruling. They're happy to let someone else do it if they're confident that all of the possible rulers are as just as themselves.
you'll often find corrections or new interpretations of these poems. That's sort of the conundrum of reading Sumerian poetry in translation. Most of the texts that are widely available and more affordable are not necessarily the most current or 'correct. '
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Finding good, just people willing to serve in public office can be a challenge. Socrates suggests that in a normal city, a good person may be motivated to serve in office solely to prevent someone worse from doing so.
#Classics #Politics 📚💙
Along side Samuel Noah Kramer, the other early titan of English language translations of Sumerian literature was Thorkild Jacobsen.
This collection of translated Sumerian poetry was originally published in 1987.
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#Myth #Poetry #Ancient #Mesopotamia 📚💙
I mentioned Samuel Noah Kramer a couple of days ago. As a reminder, Kramer was one of--if not the--leading Assyriologists publishing in English during the 20th century.
Inanna (her Sumerian name) was a Mesopotamian goddess connected to love, war, and fertility.
#Mesopotamia #Poetry #Myth 📚💙
This was yesterday's Plato quote from the Facebook page. I will try to catch up on here but day job work is crazy right now.
Socrates speaking to Thrasymachus in Book 1 of Plato's Republic. I love the language used in the last sentence.
#classics #ancient
