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rogue classicism is a personal blog at rogueclassicism.com about history and culture. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on Sappho's 'Midnight Poem', where commenters cite its 2016 post criticising press coverage of an astronomy paper that dates the poem. Comments cite it as a source, not as praise.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /2016/05/16/problems-with-the-scientific-dating-of-sapphos-midnight-poem/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-09
What Hacker News says?
Oh, I missed that- good catch. I was reading the blogpost linked by OP criticising the coverage of the paper ( https://rogueclassicism.com/2016/05/16/problems-with-the-sci... ) and it has an image of the poem as it's cited in the paper. Indeed, it says "δέδυκε" and "παρά δ' ἔρχετ‘ ὤρα". I suspect someone tried to copy the poem from the original paper and left behind a few characters, because LaTex. Or in any case so…
Comment linking /2016/05/16/problems-with-the-scientific-dating-of-sapphos-midnight-poem/
on “What We Know of Sappho”Submitted A good diet in ancient times was more than what you ate as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnalyzing her "Midnight Poem" is a favorite pastime, there has been attempts by astronomers to pinpoint the date of this night, the latest I know is a paper from 2016 ( https://dhayton.haverford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Sap... ). From this paper, here's the poem in Ancient Greek and three translations: ἐδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα καὶ πληΐαδες μέσαι δε νύκτες, πα ὰ δ‘ ἔ χετ‘ ὤ α, ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω The Moon hath left…
Comment linking /2016/05/16/problems-with-the-scientific-dating-of-sapphos-midnight-poem/
on “What We Know of Sappho”