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SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE is a personal blog at sententiaeantiquae.com about history and philosophy. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog as a source on classical antiquity, citing posts on Seneca, Spartan myth, Roman luxury and society, and a Latin proverb about a pig teaching Minerva.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
I would urge you to reconsider this stance since it would likely result in bans of classical work by Seneca( https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2018/01/28/seneca-on-the-trea... ) when taken to its logical conclusion.
Comment linking /2018/01/28/seneca-on-the-treatment-of-slaves/
on “Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay”Submitted Fronto to Aurelius: One Thought Should Follow Through to the Next as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://sententiaeantiquae.com/2016/12/21/it-was-all-so-unim...
Comment linking /2016/12/21/it-was-all-so-unimaginably-different/
on “ A military historian’s analysis of Spartan myth”Maybe, but plenty of intelligent specialists have thought otherwise. * It was a common idea about the Roman empire. Gibbon found it plausible though he invoked other mechanisms. * John Stuart Mill, who was hardly a pompous conservative: https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2018/12/11/luxury-and-societa... * Toynbee too. * More recently Francis Fukuyama wrote Political Order and Political Decay .
Comment linking /2018/12/11/luxury-and-societal-decadence/
on “We Were Builders Once, and Strong”Not quite the same but there's "A pig teaching Minerva" https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2020/08/11/a-pig-teaches-mine... Similarly giving redundant advice but with the added connotation of the advisor being less knowledgable on the matter.
Comment linking /2020/08/11/a-pig-teaches-minerva/
on “Are Any Words the Same in All Languages?”