P. Oxy. xv. 1921, no. 1795, p. 113, lines 18-30 “While I live, I love to sing these songs and when I die Put a pipe above my head and a lyre near my feet. Play a song for me. Who could find a limit to wealth or cure for poverty? Or who among the…

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Tyranny, Terror, and Mutilation – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

CW: Violence, torture, killing Homer, Odyssey 22.474-477 “They took Melanthios out through the hall and into the courtyard. They cut off his nose and ears with pitiless bronze. Then they cut off his balls and fed them raw to the dogs; And they cut off his hands and feet with an enraged heart.” ἐκ δὲ…

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The Evidence from Madness: Aristotle on the Mind-Body Problem – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Aristotle, Physiognomics 808b “[in this case] the soul and the body would experience things together, but they would not have the same reactions as one another. But, now, it is entirely clear that one follows another. This is especially obvious from the following. For madness seems to be a matter of the mind; doctors, however,…

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It Is Their Fault They Suffer – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

the antiquity of malice Libanius, Oration 23.1-2 “We are all hearing the reports that everywhere is filled with corpses—the fields, the roads, the hills, crests, caves, peaks, groves, and trenches—and that some of the corpses are feasts for birds and beasts while the rivers carry others to the sea. I am sometimes surprised by this…

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