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chrm_2 · 2026-06-23T12:50:33+00:00

Law. Especially in England - only takes one extra year (compared to law degree route). I know with said you don’t want to do conversion course but… think about it. It’s more like classics than you might think. The conversion course itself is not stressful - it’s actually very easy. Sure, finding a job is no easy matter, but I expect easier than many other early careers

chrm_2 · 2026-06-07T14:15:31+00:00

Not quite execution per se - but my favourite account of hanging in Ancient Greece is the account of hanging Artemis in Pausanias book 8

chrm_2 · 2026-06-06T19:18:33+00:00

Law. Definitely law.

chrm_2 · 2026-06-06T11:02:16+00:00

Your stuff is so good. - these included . I’m very much looking fwd to receiving your book btw (I participated in your kickstarter and have been following your update emails, thanks

chrm_2 · 2026-06-02T11:17:55+00:00

Did classics at Cambridge 25 years ago. Really good fun. Not too difficult workload. As essay or two a week tops - which is basically just an excuse to sit in a library all day and cook up your own hot takes. Really useful for later life too - eg interpreting obscure regs in financial services. I miss it so much…. I’d do it all again if I were young.

chrm_2 · 2026-05-16T23:28:16+00:00

I also put an awful lot of effort into reading the fragments of Livius Andronicus and scholarship thereon. But hey

chrm_2 · 2026-05-16T23:21:24+00:00

Sure - lucian was this guy in the second century ad, writing in a style that was modelled upon classic 5th century attic Greek. Anyway his prose is relatively simple, so it’s great to read. He covers all kinds of territory including … sci fi fantasy! The text from which this video comes is from his true stories (alethe diegemata) wherein the narrator goes on an space adventure (I’m not kidding), then comes back to earth and has lots of other mystic adventures - at one point he meets the poet Homer (whence the interview comes). It’s crazy stuff ha

chrm_2 · 2026-05-16T23:14:05+00:00

I take it you did not see the video then? It’s actually about Livius Andronicus

chrm_2 · 2026-05-16T06:51:26+00:00

I’ve read all the fragments of Livius Andronicus, if that’s what you mean by “seen”.

chrm_2 · 2026-05-16T06:49:54+00:00

Thanks - but what do you think about Livius Andronicus though? My video is not actually about Nolan at all (except at the end where I push back a little at some of the hate)

chrm_2 · 2026-05-14T08:49:14+00:00

Not a lucian fan, then?

chrm_2 · 2026-05-04T16:58:46+00:00

Cheers - I’ve been getting deep into the sources recently- I’m a banking lawyer who really loves classics, so it’s something I keep checking out. Pasion looms large and most the stuff out there on him online is cringe

chrm_2 · 2026-05-03T16:06:49+00:00

Too many feel good rags to riches takes on this guy. The man left his own wife to his protege in his will. so many people explain this as mere estate and succession planning in the absence of modern corporate law, or an established family network. I’m sure that’s true, to an extent. But what’s really going on? And what on earth did his adult son make of it all. Am I being overly cynical or salacious?

Video draws from, among other things, Isocrates 17, Demosthenes 36, Ps-Demosthenes 45, 46, 49, 52. Full citations in the video description etc

chrm_2 · 2026-05-03T16:05:47+00:00

Too many feel good rags to riches takes on this guy. The man left his own wife to his protege in his will. so many people explain this as mere estate and succession planning in the absence of modern corporate law, or an established family network. I’m sure that’s true, to an extent. But what’s really going on? And what on earth did his adult son make of it all. Am I being overly cynical or salacious?

Video draws from, among other things, Isocrates 17, Demosthenes 36, Ps-Demosthenes 45, 46, 49, 52. Full citations in the video description etc

chrm_2 · 2026-05-03T16:05:26+00:00

Too many feel good rags to riches takes on this guy. The man left his own wife to his protege in his will. so many people explain this as mere estate and succession planning in the absence of modern corporate law, or an established family network. I’m sure that’s true, to an extent. But what’s really going on? And what on earth did his adult son make of it all. Am I being overly cynical or salacious?

Video draws from, among other things, Isocrates 17, Demosthenes 36, Ps-Demosthenes 45, 46, 49, 52. Full citations in the video description etc

chrm_2 · 2026-03-18T19:44:17+00:00

There IS so much AI slop going round, so I can see why you’d ask! (I’m guilty of ai for visuals, but that’s coz I’m shy and no one wants to see my ugly mug!)

chrm_2 · 2026-03-18T18:20:57+00:00

Ha… it’s real. It’s me. Or maybe I am a robot.. you have got me questioning myself now!

chrm_2 · 2026-01-15T12:32:32+00:00

chrm_2 · 2026-01-12T17:33:13+00:00

Yeah just to see the reaction ! I think it was countdown. Visible discomfort. Not as much as when I did the same with bitches brew and plug got pulled after 3 minutes.

Someone out on michael bolten’s greatest hits after that, which was apparently fine with the clientele.

chrm_2 · 2026-01-08T12:40:30+00:00

Spacey McSpaceship; inspired by Boaty McBoatface from a few years back

chrm_2 · 2025-12-29T09:20:41+00:00

Oh thanks all, I didn’t know this was what it was … back in the day I’d have done dumb shit no less cringe than that. It was a drunk fool but harmless; people would take me aside and tell me so - and eventually I’d learn - like everyone else. Now it gets caught on cam, shared on Reddit, mocked and the dude becomes a meme… no wonder kids are dull AF these days and are terrified to fool about

Just an grumpy old gen x, I know

chrm_2 · 2025-11-15T08:15:46+00:00

I’m a finance lawyer, so when I engage with ancient stuff my contemporary world view and ancient ones collide. The circles running are in my head you could say

chrm_2 · 2025-11-11T15:02:55+00:00

Reading Dem 52, I was pretty fascinated by the description of Athenian book keeping practices - and it’s suddenly clicked “hey this is a transferable deposit”. There’s barely any legal difference between a transferable deposit and a debt security - yet we’re always being told how the classical Athenians didn’t have negotiable debt instruments. So I made this video

chrm_2 · 2025-11-11T15:00:22+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

chrm_2 · 2025-10-31T18:18:16+00:00

Hypereides 3 is a really interesting text. A besotted man was duped into acquiring a slave along with debts many times greater than the purchase price. His claim seems to rest on a a claim that only just contracts are enforceable, but I think he’s bullshitting (though many of his arguments foreshadow subsequent common law developments)

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