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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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux ja @AntigoneJournal
Oof, yeah, clearly a monumental ego and lack of curiosity about the ancient world are at play here. Sometimes I feel, for all they hold them up as pillars of tradition, people think that the ancients were quite stupid.
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On the other hand, and in no way defending Singer here, what’s wrong with approaching a text from a different viewpoint? I am not a fan of this reading because to me the GA is about slavery. But it is pretty striking in its casual cruelty to animals as well.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @forcardassia ja @AntigoneJournal
Of course one may read the work however they want; the author is very much dead. But may I suggest that the book is, in fact, about Isis? Lucius opens the main story frame looking for supernatural power and in the end by a wholly unexpected route, finds it.
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The repeated motifs of transformation and deception set up the truth-behind-reality reveal of Isis (at once many goddesses in the text) and the repeated corruption and abuses of power likewise set of the perfection of Isis' blessing.
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And it's hard not to notice that all of the post-donkey-ification insert tales involve troubled marriages - suspicious, jealous and faithlessly spouses. That motif doesn't seem accidental and of course it neatly sets up the narrative's perfect couple, Isis and Osiris.
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