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Thu Jul 16 16:09:38 +0000 2020

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@mikeharrisNY For 1800 years few Greeks discussed Athens. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 16, 2020 Hibernated

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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

Posted July 16, 2020 Hibernated

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@mikeharrisNY Reinvention; read reintroduction into the consciousness but since 3rd C BC Alexandria was the true Greek center. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 16, 2020 Hibernated

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