roseweird posted:could you please point me to some archaeological or literary evidence, for example can you find a single prayer composed to prometheus or offering made to him
lol
roseweird posted:pausanias says there is a torch/running game involving prometheus and a couple of places claimed as his grave, and that's it
This torch running is commemorated today in the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
roseweird posted:Lykourgos posted:roseweird you are taking being wrong really poorly. its unseemly. With altars, national celebrations, and countless traditions, Prometheus is perhaps bigger than jesus(!)
he was at best a noncanonical saint in modern terms, hardly a hekate or a hermes or even a herakles or asklepios in stature. he was a titan, so an immortal, but in his religious significance he was not worshipped but was a renegade priest, a sinner against the gods, and a sacrifice—according to your sources livers were not sacrificed in his name, but sacrificed as symbolic representations of his liver, to appease the anger of the gods at his inventions (he was fire's inventor). and he was forgotten altogether by the entire western world until the renaissance, when goethe and then shelley had crushes on him. in the considerable corpus of syncretic hellenistic magic at the end of the pagan era he makes no appearances whatsoever. are you really a neopagan, lol, bc this kind of shallow and wishful approach is the reason that despite my theological agreement with the majority of them i would much rather go to a church or synagogue than actually spend my time with neopagan pseudointellectuals. you can do that here, btw, today prometheus is worshipped at the "shrine of prometheus" in new york, which is a group of nerds who meet at a greasy diner once per month. all hail the fire thief *flicks a bic*
i cant believe im even arguing about this lmao i'm just tired of your posture as a racist classicist with Opinions About Americans, you're bad at classics and you should probably never leave england again and have you considered giving up law, going on the dole, and spending your life in quiet contemplation of your own personal shortcomings
so you admit you're wrong in the most ungracious way imaginable. 
okay I guess, at least you admit that it isn't like worshipping Edison, and you learnt that he had altars, landmarks, regular celebrations, and superstitious traditions.
I'm not a neo-pagan, I just wanted to relate a classical figure and jesus, and why would I want to quit my job and go on the dole? I'm tops at the classics as evidenced by this thread and that means I'm tops at p much everything. Classics are one of those gentlemanly areas of knowledge that make gentlemen fit for everything worth mentioning, like internet posting. like I said read some pausanias or something you will get better at things
roseweird posted:eh wots this, some yank pissant says i am "boring"? i must register my displeasure posthaste *downvotes with pinky finger*
I'm just testing the theory that you're maggotmaster
Lykourgos posted:roseweird posted:Lykourgos posted:roseweird you are taking being wrong really poorly. its unseemly. With altars, national celebrations, and countless traditions, Prometheus is perhaps bigger than jesus(!)
he was at best a noncanonical saint in modern terms, hardly a hekate or a hermes or even a herakles or asklepios in stature. he was a titan, so an immortal, but in his religious significance he was not worshipped but was a renegade priest, a sinner against the gods, and a sacrifice—according to your sources livers were not sacrificed in his name, but sacrificed as symbolic representations of his liver, to appease the anger of the gods at his inventions (he was fire's inventor). and he was forgotten altogether by the entire western world until the renaissance, when goethe and then shelley had crushes on him. in the considerable corpus of syncretic hellenistic magic at the end of the pagan era he makes no appearances whatsoever. are you really a neopagan, lol, bc this kind of shallow and wishful approach is the reason that despite my theological agreement with the majority of them i would much rather go to a church or synagogue than actually spend my time with neopagan pseudointellectuals. you can do that here, btw, today prometheus is worshipped at the "shrine of prometheus" in new york, which is a group of nerds who meet at a greasy diner once per month. all hail the fire thief *flicks a bic*
i cant believe im even arguing about this lmao i'm just tired of your posture as a racist classicist with Opinions About Americans, you're bad at classics and you should probably never leave england again and have you considered giving up law, going on the dole, and spending your life in quiet contemplation of your own personal shortcomingsso you admit you're wrong in the most ungracious way imaginable.
okay I guess, at least you admit that it isn't like worshipping Edison, and you learnt that he had altars, landmarks, regular celebrations, and superstitious traditions.
I'm not a neo-pagan, I just wanted to relate a classical figure and jesus, and why would I want to quit my job and go on the dole? I'm tops at the classics as evidenced by this thread and that means I'm tops at p much everything. Classics are one of those gentlemanly areas of knowledge that make gentlemen fit for everything worth mentioning, like internet posting. like I said read some pausanias or something you will get better at things
yes, but how is your mathematics? because without mathematics you are unfit to study philosophy. indeed, the better one's mathematics is, the greater his mind's capacity for nobility.
elemennop posted:yes, but how is your mathematics? because without mathematics you are unfit to study philosophy. indeed, the better one's mathematics is, the greater his mind's capacity for nobility.
I stayed in High School long enough to take geometry. Plato would be pleased.
Lykourgos posted:elemennop posted:yes, but how is your mathematics? because without mathematics you are unfit to study philosophy. indeed, the better one's mathematics is, the greater his mind's capacity for nobility.
I stayed in High School long enough to take geometry. Plato would be pleased.
geometry in american high school may as well not be geometry, i'm starting to question your mental abilities as a supposed nobleman. even plato acknowledged the further development of mathematics, so if you're stuck on the planar geometry given by an american education, i cannot help but pity how woefully underdeveloped your mind is
ilmdge posted:im a mathematician
post your erdos number
ilmdge posted:i majored in math but im not a mathematician. i went to law school and passed the bar but im not a lawyer. i got engaged but im not married. ive read shelves of classic literature but im illiterate. and so on
nice to know there's another math guy on here
ilmdge posted:actually elemenop's post mentioning math inspired me to find my old advanced algebra and analysis books so i just spent an hour and a half looking ofr them before i remembered they're in the trunk of my car.
rudin and lang? or maybe hartsford for algebra?