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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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux ja @AntigoneJournal
Yes, you’re absolutely right, and that’s how I read the GA when I studied with K. Bradley. That’s why I said “to me” - I just find the text more interesting in thinking about what it reveals about marginalized beings, animal and human.
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I use bits of it that way in my teaching - 'here is a slice of life narrative focused on regular workers, enslaved people, women, etc. in the Roman world rather than just elites.'
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