We do love some open access myth-busting about Achilles’ vulnerable anatomy in BICS.🦵 “Yet the absence of any clear evidence for a specifically vulnerable heel in ancient sources has attracted surprisingly little scholarly attention. Roman sources…allude to a different anatomical region: the ankle.”
An @sefarad.bsky.social
British politics be like
First attempt at an edition of the Old High German "Wessobrunner Gebet".
Melittis melissophyllum.
Plantarum indigenarum et exoticarum icones ad vivum coloratae, 1788.
ABSTRACT. The myth of Achilles’ imperfect invulnerability, according to which his heel constituted his only weak point, is one of the best-known narratives
academic.oup.com
Alt: We're gonna need another Timmy explosion Meme
Random ginger of the day.
Michał Piotr Boym: Flora Sinensis, 1656.
"KI-Firmen kaufen Antiquariate leer – und vernichten die Bücher
Werden vergriffene Bücher im grossen Stil zu Altpapier vernichtet, konzentriert sich das analoge Erbe unwiederbringlich als exklusive Datenmasse in den Händen weniger Unternehmen –still,systematisch und bisher ohne öffentliche Debatte"
Palettenweise wandern alte Bücher aus Europa in die USA. Dahinter stecken mutmasslich KI-Unternehmen – mit System.
