I am going to engage in some #ClassicsDiscourse; you will all have to forgive me.
When I saw that @AntigoneJournal was running a bit by Peter Singer, I was disappointed. When I *read* the bit by Singer I was...confused?
This? This is what you flushed your reputation for?
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All of this is in service to the notion that Apuleius was really writing a book about animal rights which...I have my doubts. Especially if apparently the only way to make it work is to hacksaw off every part of the work which doesn't fit that thesis. 11/14
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But my real question is why a "new and open forum for Classics" thought that running a 1300 word ad for what is essentially a bowdlerized version of a key classical text by a non-Classicist (and not the classically trained translator) was worth their digital pixels. 12/14
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And that is of course before one gets into the considerable controversy behind the fellow himself which one might think, given the manifest paucity of the inducement of the paper itself, would have been enough to warn
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Why,
@AntigoneJournal, it profits a journal nothing to give its reputation for the whole world. But for Wales? https://youtu.be/bLIsqYKDqY8?t=236 … (My apologies to Wales and the Welsh for this likely unwelcome and demeaning comparison). end/14Näytä tämä ketju
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I say this as someone who once admired Singer: this made me flinch with my *whole* body.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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words - "cut[s] out the episodes that stay from the main story...but still retaining the material that shows Apuleius' remarkably empathy for an animal..." 10/14