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Billy Oppenheimer (@bpoppenheimer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In 1954, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey investigated the question everyone was asking, "Why can't children read?" Hersey found the answer and then wrote about it in a piece published in Life Magazine. Which led to one of the bestselling children's books of all time.

In 1954, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey investigated the question everyone was asking, "Why can't children read?"

Hersey found the answer and then wrote about it in a piece published in Life Magazine.

Which led to one of the bestselling children's books of all time.
Robert Greene (@robertgreene) 's Twitter Profile Photo

You need to train yourself to pay less attention to the words that people say and greater attention to their tone of voice, the look in their eye, their body language—all signals that might reveal a nervousness or excitement that is not expressed verbally.

Donald J. Robertson (@donjrobertson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Epictetus repeatedly tells his Stoic students to emulate Socrates, presumably based mainly (but not only) on Plato's dialogues, but Plato himself did not emulate Socrates (much) and neither did his students at the Academy.

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When Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates, he laughed in their faces, raised the randsom, and sent his men to collect enough silver to pay it. While he waited, he won them over (despite treating them as minions) and gained so much trust that they didn't believe it when he

When Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates, he laughed in their faces, raised the randsom, and sent his men to collect enough silver to pay it. 

While he waited, he won them over (despite treating them as minions) and gained so much trust that they didn't believe it when he
Alex & Books 📚 (@alexandbooks_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Reading is an insanely high-ROI activity. But don't have much time for it? Here are 15 life-changing books you can finish in 5 hours or less:

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"Athenians saw the history of their city, and history in general: not as marked by inevitable progress towards a future without divisions, but as a perpetual drama in which each generation faces its own forms of conflict." Forgetting past traumas was key: antigonejournal.com/2021/03/dont-l…

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OK then: our latest Classics books give-away! Just RT this message, and on Sunday 6 August we will draw *three* names from our followers: the first picks 25 books; the second 15; the third the rest (unless they don't want some, which will be raffled off at random!) Book details:

OK then: our latest Classics books give-away! Just RT this message, and on Sunday 6 August we will draw *three* names from our followers: the first picks 25 books; the second 15; the third the rest (unless they don't want some, which will be raffled off at random!)
Book details:
Antigone Journal (@antigonejournal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"The Socratic problem, simply put, is the conundrum of how to discern between the historical Socrates and his representation in fiction." To find out how much we can know, come explore this account of how scholars have tackled the problem, in eight phases: antigonejournal.com/2023/01/histor…

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🔁🔁🔁 Retweet for a chance to win a free download of my new audiobook, "Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor", published by Yale University Press on Audible. (US/Canada only, T&C below.) #Stoicism #Giveaway

🔁🔁🔁 Retweet for a chance to win a free download of my new audiobook, "Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor", published by <a href="/yalepress/">Yale University Press</a> on <a href="/audible_com/">Audible</a>.  (US/Canada only, T&amp;C below.)  #Stoicism #Giveaway
Antigone Journal (@antigonejournal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Gosh: it's delightful that Greek philosophy books can garner so much interest and excitement. Anyway, it's now 48 hours until the *June* draw will be made, and any retweeter anywhere in the world will be in the mix.

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Ok, Loeb give-away number 3: all 5 volumes of the lovely Greek Anthology, Propertius on the thrills & spills of love, Lucan on civil chaos, Cicero on the meaning of life, & Gellius on trivia worth knowing. Draw will be on Wed 3 July. Just retweet & follow us to be in the running!

Ok, Loeb give-away number 3: all 5 volumes of the lovely Greek Anthology, Propertius on the thrills &amp; spills of love, Lucan on civil chaos, Cicero on the meaning of life, &amp; Gellius on trivia worth knowing. Draw will be on Wed 3 July. Just retweet &amp; follow us to be in the running!