Prometheus stole fire for mankind.🔥 It allowed man to master nature - to ascend from the cold darkness into glory and civilization. Yet, as we now look to colonize the stars, we forget this Promethean flame also holds the secret to our destruction... (a thread🧵)

Frankenstein is a warning. The greater power of our technology, the greater potential for our destruction. A man who misuses a bronze sword it quite different than one who misuses an atomic bomb. Mary Shelley called her work "The Modern Prometheus" for a reason.

"Sophocles asks: how do we order our duties to gods, city, and family? Antigone is a lesson in navigating the cosmic order.” Dcn. Harrison Garlick

We are flat souls wielding atomic power.🔥

GM. Let's wake up early and read great books.☕️📚

5000+ people read the great books with us last month. You can read the great books with Ascend. Start with Homer.📚

Unfortunate.

Why should we read the Iliad by Homer?⁉️ The Iliad is arguably the first “great book” in the Western canon—save Holy Scripture. As one would start with Genesis to understand the Hebrews, one starts with Homer to understand the Greeks. Homer represents an insight into the ancient

The Odyssey opens with an invocation to the Muses. What should we know about this invocation?⬇️ The Muses are the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory. Homer invokes the Muses for inspiration—to help him recall and tell the story Odysseus’ journey home.

Have you read Hesiod's Theogony? It is a short but compelling tale on the genesis of the gods and the cosmos - a great contrast to Homer. You can read it with Ascend!

GM Friends! Let's wake up early and read great books. ☕️📚

Antigone is the "dark sign from the gods" that fails to see herself in that role. She becomes a sign of contradiction against injustice but falls into despair. Read Antigone - one of the best female protagonists in Western literature.

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