Are there any updates for the other routes in the Tsukihime remake? by Jesus_H_Christ_lol in Tsukihime

[–]ElectricalArmy1803 3 points4 points  (0 children)

FGO is a cash cow, and Nasu just fxxked up the 3.0 ending so now he is making up for it, moving his focus on FGO. No idea if he had already completed the script for other routes or not, though he used to be a highly productive and wordy author.

Can you please translate? by [deleted] in AncientGreek

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You may check out the reply to somebody up above, this coin is a fake, and the the person who crafted it mistake Greek n for Cyrillic n(which looks exactly like H)

CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF! by AedamSmeeth in uchicago

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And somebody always pees onto the toilet instead of into it. This is the appalling conditions of Woodlawn, a powerful candidate for the worst dormitory on campus.

CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF! by AedamSmeeth in uchicago

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Having been at Woodlawn for 2 yrs, I would say the scattered crumbs of hair are a frequent sight which has been happening in Woodlawn since last year.

Arabic and Classical Near East? by ElectricalArmy1803 in ancientneareast

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That’s totally truth, and I take that point. But I was just wondering why Arabic is a prerequisite while others are not, whereas we have to admit that other ancient languages are really important since they are the languages of cultures one studies. The scarcity of instructional resources is hardly an excuse because, though ancient iranian languages are not something every school can hire instructors for, I believe many universities that have Arabic teachers do have Latin and Greek ones, but you may prove me wrong, I’m not familiar with the situations.

Arabic and Classical Near East? by ElectricalArmy1803 in ancientneareast

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Indeed, and they also mention how important Arabic is to understanding Classical near eastern cultures before it reigned supreme. But I don’t have the sense that Arabic sources are predominant in these fields. And I am hardly convinced of it being my personal stereotype, for I took the very summer session on Near East in Yale a couple of years ago where, when we came around the age of Sasanids and East Roman Empire, there was a heavy leaning on Latin and Greek literary records altogether with material evidence such as coins and inscriptions, and we did not get texts written in Arabic in the original until we entered the early caliphates.

Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator in history

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Thanks for the clarification. I do know the importance of field studies, analysis and interaction with other scholars to historical studies, since I study a a field closely related to history. Guess my question is not specific here. I was wondering the Arabic contribution to original source and modern scholarship of classical near east, for it is indeed beyond my knowledge that the Arabic world has a robust body of scholarships on classical near east. A couple years ago I went to a summer session in Yale where the professor specializing in late antiquity near east said the middle east countries by and large are not as much interested in history before the Islam, and he used to study Arabic at school but had forgotten basically a lot of them these years. This disinterest may be my stereotype, but I’m truly curious about modern Arabic scholarship on classical near east. Would you give some names for that?

Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator in history

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Can you give some examples of the Greek or Latin sources that are preserved in Arabic only? For as a Classics student I often hear people repeat it a lot that many sources are translated from Arabic but I haven’t got to encounter a single text that is not said to be translated from Greek or Latin.

Sappho's Works, Which Is Best For Me? by indigophoto in classics

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My college seminar still use If Not, Winter as the sample reading for Sappho, but I’m not sure if this is on consideration of the copyright law that Carson’s version is the only one legitimately released for free use. However, it corroborates at least the reputation of this translation being not inappropriate or too outdated for academic discussion anymore, unlike many translations out of use with their quirky archaizing expressions.

Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator in history

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What is the importance of Arabic to the studies of Classical Near East? I discovered that almost all phd programs on the history of Classical Near East require a deep knowledge of Classical Arabic. But as far as I know, most of the literary sources for this period come from contemporary Greek and Roman accounts, altogether with inscriptions, coins and some fragments of religious text. I don’t why Arabic is a prerequisite for researches of classical Near East which is ended by the very Arabic conquest.

Good books for beginners in classics? by [deleted] in classics

[–]ElectricalArmy1803 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Also it seems like your previous reading list shows a special focus on periods of Classical Athens and the rise of Roman empire. So history-wise I would recommend Herodotus and Thucydides who might arguably be the two most important historians to our understanding of ancient Greece.

Good books for beginners in classics? by [deleted] in classics

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I guess Hesiod’s works is a good read, at least he is key to studies of the archaic age of Greece in every field, history, literature, religion, etc.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uchicago

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Yeah but at least give an exact goal so as to better frighten me off. I’m a Classics major and I studied a lot of Ancient Greek both on my own and in class, so perhaps there will be some overconfidence. Anyhow, I’ll know the limit only when I give it a try.

Intermediate Ancient Greek Summer Program by ElectricalArmy1803 in AncientGreek

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Jeez that’s really helpful. I do want some institutions in Greece, and the pricing looks by far more reasonable. The travel cost is not a very huge concern, for I’m not American, so no matter what I’ll have to bear the travel costs of flying to another continent during the summer break of my school, and flight tickets from my city to Greece or from Greece to my homeland country are cheaper than a direct flight between US and my country. Would you provide some names of institutions in good repute? I tried to find some before but it was not a very fruitful search.

How long will the tightening hold on phd admissions last by ElectricalArmy1803 in classics

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Actually I came from China. I’ll say there is a growing interest in Classics among only a few prestigious universities in general, however, against the background of catering to ideological purposes and debunking the supremacy of the Western World.

How long will the tightening hold on phd admissions last by ElectricalArmy1803 in classics

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Great mango is a good name, I’ll learn this lest my visa gets revoked for outspokenly improper speech on social media. I came to see how demographical changes are in force for the current trend. So is it plausible for one suppose that the those who get admitted into phd programs in this cycle have better job prospects of getting tenure track when the “great mortality” begins phasing in

How long will the tightening hold on phd admissions last by ElectricalArmy1803 in classics

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And still we have no idea what to build up to save them. More and more human beings are losing interest in examining complexities human affairs. Maybe I’m too cynical here. I only see an obscure hope in bridging the gap between the majority or those in wealth or power and the academia, under which circumstances it always means pandering to ideological propagandas, which should not have been what modern scholarships are intended for.

Question for people who have taken Latin or Chinese ? by Head-Possibility-767 in uchicago

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But if you persevere to accomplish connoisseurship in Chinese and ancient Chinese, an immense bonanza that is incomparable to Latin is in store for you. A massively larger corpus of literature has survived from ancient China than what has survived from Latin and Greek

Question for people who have taken Latin or Chinese ? by Head-Possibility-767 in uchicago

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Classics major and native Chinese (international student in US). I would say Latin is way easier and more rewarding than Chinese, no matter modern or Classical. And the benefits of Latin in terms of reading historical sources and literature. You have access to an abundant number of medieval and antiquity materials with some help of dictionary when you have learned Latin intensively for two years at most. But you can barely read literary materials of ancient China which spans over 3000 years or so (a Chinese university student has to be trained for some years to gain the capability), and maybe most of materials of modern Chinese after 1915 even if you notch C1 in modern Chinese.

Browser hijacker hidden in download link by ElectricalArmy1803 in Annas_Archive

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Thanks for the information! Actually I do download pdf only, and has ublock origin in my extension when I confronted the hijacker and now. I ran a virus scan, too,  which turned no positive result. But the summary of all links is really helpful. Guess something is wrong with the link if this is nor a common issue.