• goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    thank heavens that 21x9 bar of white noise was there or I might’ve become briefly aware of the concept of human mortality.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    Between the word fucking being censored and the lack of capital letters, what is wrong with the Internet?

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    There was an ancient Greek called Sotades of Maronea, who was by all accounts a magnificent poet and is credited with the invention of the palindrome.

    He also had a penchant for writing absolute filth, and wrote a poem about Ptolemy II’s marriage (to his own sister) that was so rude that Sotades was sealed into a lead casket and thrown in the sea.

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      sealed into a lead casket and thrown in the sea.

      That’s a heavy sentence for some ribald poetry. Mind you, with a line that translates as “You’re sticking your prick in an unholy hole”, I can understand why Ptolemy II got a bit salty about it.

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    I remember reading about once documented case where one small time royal in Africa at some point, to avoid capture, cut off the face of a dead man and tried to pass himself off as someone else. Full Hannibal Lecter. We only know about it because it didn’t work, and he was immediately captured.

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      son of Timosthenes

      • Literally named godborn
      • Land barren when his statue was desecrated.

      Hmmm. I think Zeus did something again.

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    Thank the gods I didn’t have to see the word fuck I don’t know what I would have done if this meme had had swear words in it, my mom would have grounded me for reading it.

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    Can anyone point me at a good place to read about ancient beef? I just find it so fascinating when two people’s hatred for each other outlives themselves. Doesn’t have to be ancient really, I’d settle for anything pre-20th century.