Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb
Which is why Hagia Sophia hurts. Greek is Hellenistic, not Classical; Nordics who reinvented a "Greek identity" w/Greek gods on coffeeshop takeout mugs never get it. Nor do Levantines brainwashed by Arab fascism. Athens is a German Disneyland-style reinvention in the early 19C. — PolitiTweet.org
C.P. Cavafy @CCavafy
“How different is his history from an Englishman’s. Athens and Sparta, so drubbed into us at school, are to him two… https://t.co/rdlbIU8ZO4
