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It's not because they were "traditional" or "classical" — in fact it's just the opposite
Historians are finally having their AI debate
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.
A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"
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On the Spot: Kathleen DuVal JamesHoare Tue, 07/15/2025 - 08:09
“I have never described any thing without first having seen it with my eyes” – Ulissi Aldrovandi, who shows us dragons and other monsters in his Monstrorum Historia Ulissi Aldrovandi’s Monstrorum Historia is a huge 13-volume encyclopaedia of life on Earth. The books cover different subjects: quadrupeds, fish, sea life, birds, serpents, plants … Continue reading "Ulissi Aldrovandi’s Monstrorum Historia: Dragons And Other Real Monsters" The post Ulissi Aldrovandi’s Monstrorum Historia: Dragons And Other Real Monsters appeared first on Flashbak.
Scylla and Charybdis appear mainly in book twelve of Homer’s Odyssey, in which Odysseus and his crew must sail through the rocks near where the monsters live. Little information is known about their origins, though some stories are provided in myth. Scylla and Charybdis were located on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina […]
The Apostle Paul traveled throughout much of the Roman Empire in the first century spreading Christianity and preaching to people and churches. Two of the cities he visited were Philippi in Greece and Colossae in Asia Minor (now Turkey). Philippi Before Paul Arrived Philippi was originally a Thrasian colony called Crenides, established […]
