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Anya Leonard
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Anya Leonard writes Classical Wisdom, a personal blog at classicalwisdom.substack.com about philosophy and history. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Ancient Greek Terms Worth Reviving”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
This Substack by Anya Leonard covers classical topics, such as what chess is and whether old texts should be updated. One commenter links a post on updating old works in the context of a recent controversy.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Minds. Each week we discuss philosophy, history, literature, and mythology to unlock the wisdom from the Classical world. Subscribe to our FREE newsletter and receive our Ebook, "How to be Happy" a Guide to Ethical Philosophy. Click to read Classical Wisdom, a Substack publ
Most-linked posts?
- Ancient Greek Terms Worth Reviving2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-08
What Hacker News says?
Interestingly this has just come up again recently with the 'dahl' controversy.[0] [0] https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/should-we-update-old-...
Comment linking /p/should-we-update-old-texts
on “What is Chess? What to think and how long for”Submitted Ancient Greek Terms Worth Reviving as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have We Become Anti-Human? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ancient Greek Terms That Should Make a Comeback as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The First Computer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Save Democracy – Classical Wisdom as a story · 1 points
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