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  1. That's only Aeschylus' version of the mith. Aeschylus' goal was not to declare the inferiority of the mother over the father (mind that half of the jury did not agree, even with Apollo as the defense attorney), but to promote Athen's legal sistem where, as the Romans would have said "in dubio pro reo", when the votes of the judges are evenly divided, mercy must prevail. When the votes of the judges are equally divided, Athena ALWAYS votes for the defendant. BTW According to Euripides' version, Orestes and Electra were condemned to death by a court in Mycenae and saved by the intervent of Menelaus, that persuaded (or forced at swordpoint) the Myceneans to give them a year of exile instead. It was not game over however, since Orestes was still persecuted by the furies and ,in order to escape them, he was ordered by Apollo to go to Tauris, carry off the statue of Artemis which had fallen from heaven, and to bring it to Athens. In Tauris Orestes found his lost sister, Iphigenia, taken away from sacrifice by Artemis and rised as one of his priestess, was saved by her, and returned with her and the statue to Mycenae, so reuniting what was left of the family and finally being freed from the persecution. There are other versions as well.
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  2. One has to understand that Marco Polo was not a westerner that entred into a chinese restaurant for the first time, discovered there weren't forks and "how strange!". At that point he had visited many different people that eat in many different ways (mostly with bare hands). Chopsticks were a petty thing to him.
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  3.  @tylerellis9097  That it wouldn't had been an islamic expansion in Europe without the fourth crusade is only an unsopported statement. Maybe without Venice keeping them at bay, the expansion would have been faster. Surely, for the honorable and loyal Byzantines, to massacre some tenth of thousands unarmed merchants in 1182 had not been such a great idea.
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  4.  @tylerellis9097  I'm sure that thinking "but we slaughtered just a few Venetians!" had been a great consolation for the citizens of Constantinopole during the sack, but the Venetians felt to be touched enough, and that's all that counts. Sorry, but law and moral have nothing to do with this matter. There was nothing lawful or moral in the massacre, there was nothing lawful or moral in the various coup d'etat that made the Byzantine policies toward latin merchants wavy and unreliable.The massacre of the latins simply demonstrated to the Venetians that the Byzantine Empire was an unstable and unpredictable commercial partner, and that, if they wanted to carry on their business without being at the mercy of some mad emperor, they had to do it through THEIR ports and THEIR fortresses, not asking for permission. In the end, it had been the right move, so yes, the massacre, for the byzantines, backfired a little. So ehe Empire of Nicaea, well after the Crusade, was able to defeat some Turks badly, but it's direct descendant was beaten by the Ottomans. That doesn't seem to indicate a responsability of the Crusade in the fall of the Empire. That without the 4th Crusade the Byzantine Empire would have been able to repel the Turks is only an ucronia one can choose to believe, but it's narrative, not reality.There is no proof or hint that, without the Crusade, the Empire would have not decayed, or exhausted itself in border disputes, or internal struggles. Again, "legal"? In 1204? All the legality that was needed in international affairs, was that the stronger one took what he wanted. The Byzantines had never fought an expansionist war? The Byzantine Empire had been unable to hold its possessions in front of the Crusaders, and so had rightly been divided between them.
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  5.  @tylerellis9097  "legal right to reconquest?" LMFAO! Then the Venetians had the legal right to conquer any fortress they considered useful to carry on their business without been at the mercy of the Byzantine shenanigans. Sorry, but the evidence is that the Byzantine Empire had been destroyed. "It wouldn't had been destroyed without a fact happened 250 years before" is your statement, that you have to prove.
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  6.  @tylerellis9097  Sorry , but the statement that, without the 4th crusade, Byzantium would have not been conquered by the Ottomans, a thing happened two and half centuries later is your, not mine, and you have not proved that. Is only a think you like to believe. Sorry, but that's an idiocy. Have you dreamed about it last night? Who decides what "powers" have the right to put their mouth in the question? You? Who recognised the right of the Byzantines to conquer Gotic kingdom, or the Vandal one? And besides, The "powers" were perfectly fine in dividing among themself the Byzantine Empire, so it was fair game, right?
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  7.  @tylerellis9097  Your was only a possibility. "It existed for much time", "The Empire of Nicaea overstretched itself to reconquer Byzantium", "The Byzantine Empire would have had one hundred years to fortify" are opinions, not proofs. Venice is responsible for the Sack of 1204. That this "opened the ways to the Turks" is your opinion. Maybe it slowed them down.
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  8.  @tylerellis9097  You simply are unable to understand the meaning of the word "proof", don't you? Facts. The Byzantine Empire was destroyed in 1204 by the 4th Crusade. Then a lot of things happened, until Byzantium was conquered again by the Ottomans two and half centuries later. Your statement "without the 4th crusade, the Ottomans would have not conquered Byzantium two and half centuries later". Proofs of your statement: none. "They had been sacked in 1204" is not proof of a direct consequentiality with what happened in 1453. "But they had been sacked so bad!" is not better proof. Maybe without the 4th Crusade, the Ottomans would have conquered Byzantium in 1353 instead of 1453. You simply don't know.
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  9.  @tylerellis9097  Sorry, but appealing to a supposed "common sense" in science is not relevant. As already said, the statement that, without the 4th crusade, Byzantium would have not been conquered by the Ottomans, a thing happened two and half centuries later is your, not mine. Your the statement, your the burden of the proof, and you have not proved that. Is only a think you like to believe. If you think what you said is "proof" then you simply don't know what a "proof" is. The Byzantine Empire already lost Anatolia, and big and small parts of it, first than the 4th Crusade. There is no proof that the Byzantine trade had been damaged by the Venetians after the 4th Crusade more that it would have been without it. The Venetian fleet had been stronger than the Byzantine one since well before the 4th crusade.
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  10. ​ @tylerellis9097  So what are you stating? That the Venetians were unable to wage war in the eastern Mediterranean without the 4th Crusade? They already did before (IE in the battle of Jaffa) or that they surely would have not acquired a base at all without the Crusade? Why not? They were a rising power. Your arguments are, sorry, just shit, because you are unable to think that, without the 4th crusade, things would have gone differently from what you like to believe in your ideal world. You just like to keep Sucking Byzantine's dick. Again, You fail to undertand that a series of thing happening doesn't mean that, without one of those, the rest of history would have happened the way you believe. Because history is determined by many things.
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  11. Actually that's exclusively Ovid's version of the mith. He invented the whole rape and curse thing because he was writing a book called "metamorphosys", that was about shape-shifting miths (so he needed a shape-shifting, and, since the book was about changes, he didn't care about changing the miths themselves) and because he loved to depict autorities in a bad light, so, in his versions of the miths, gods always play with mortals without caring abouth them. In the original Greek mith, Medusa was simpy born a monster, one of the three gorgons (along with Stheno and Euryale), that were daughters of Echidna and Typhon. Ironically, all three had the same aspect and powers, but Medusa was the only one that was mortal.
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  12. Because that was the only way to legally accept her testimony.
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  13. Like for Tessalonic, sold to the Venetians when it was already under siege by the Ottomans in 1423, it was an attempt to avoid, or at least delay, it's loss at the hands of the Turks, since Venetians were good at siege warfare, and could supply their fortresses by sea.
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  14. In the Bible angels are so humanoid that they are often mistaken for humans.
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  15. "The Venetians are currently pushing for independence"? LOL! Please...
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  16. Not in the Commedia. He had his abdomen cut open but, like any other damned in that circle, he could walk. In the time he would have completed the turn of the circle, his wounds would have healed, then a devil would had cut him open again. He profetises to Dante that Fra Dolcino will join him in that circle.
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  17. Santa Maria del Fiore dome is much larger and higher.
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  18. The Council of Ten progressively expanded its own powers until, in 1468, the Great Council curbed it. As stated, Venice had the means to avoid a man, or a reduced assemble, to gain too much power. Consider also that the Council, thus having in theory supreme police and judicial power (they could condemn anyone to death after a secret trial) very rarely used it. They knew they were judging member of their own caste. And there was no reason for those ten guys to trust more the other members of the Council than their own families and allies. Also, the Council didn't have an army, so it had power only as long as at least one of the other two major powers (the doge and the Great Council) granted it
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  19. A Mary Sue is a central character that isn't challenged by the plot. That's his defining trait. It doesn't count how powerful he is, or if he is the centre of the universe. A charcter can legitimately be the centre of the universe (IE think of Harui Suzumiya) without being a Mary Sue. That's why Goku (and I'm not really a Dragon Ball fan) isn't a Mary Sue. In his case, the plot is specifically made to challenge him. It doesn't count how powerful he is. There are always characters that are as, or more, powerful. It doesn't count if he gets power-ups. Power ups are legit in his universe (that's specifically stated) and many characters get them. It doesnt' count if he generally wins. Not only that's true for many heroes (plot armour doesn't make Mary Sues), but, contrary to many of them, we know that he can loose (it happened several times) or even die (it happened several times). And that's why Rey IS a Mary Sue. She's not Challenged by the plot. It doesn't count if she's a girl. She gets out of troubles simply by showing to possess abilities that she shouldn't logically have without any explanation (is like Goku suddenly becoming smarter than Bulma in building mechanisms). Or getting gratuitous power-ups that simply decided to happen at the right time without the need for any training. She doesn't need to train, she doesnt need to do anything. The universe seems to conspire to make her look awesome without any real effort.
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  20. And that's why she's a mary Sue. A Mary Sue is a central character that isn't challenged by the plot. That's his defining trait. It doesn't count how powerful he is, or if he is the centre of the universe. A charcter can legitimately be the centre of the universe (IE think of Harui Suzumiya) without being a Mary Sue. That's why Goku (and I'm not really a Dragon Ball fan) isn't a Mary Sue. In his case, the plot is specifically made to challenge him. It doesn't count how powerful he is. There are always characters that are as, or more, powerful. It doesn't count if he gets power-ups. Power ups are legit in his universe (that's specifically stated) and many characters get them. It doesnt' count if he generally wins. Not only that's true for many heroes (plot armour doesn't make Mary Sues), but, contrary to many of them, we know that he can loose (it happened several times) or even die (it happened several times). Rey instead IS a Mary Sue. She's not Challenged by the plot. It doesn't count if she's a girl. She gets out of troubles simply by showing to possess abilities that she shouldn't logically have without any explanation (is like Goku suddenly becoming smarter than Bulma in building mechanisms). Or getting gratuitous power-ups that simply decided to happen at the right time without the need for any training. She doesn't need to train, she doesnt need to do anything. The universe seems to conspire to make her look awesome without any real effort.
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  21. In the Divine Comedy, Purgatory is at the antipodes of Jerusalem. The closest land is the island of Rapa Iti.
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  22. Actually there is nothing remotely resembling a book in the original text. She should have read some weird translation. Dante only sees what resembled a human image in the second of the three circles (Jesus, obviously).
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  23. In the Divine Comedy, Purgatory is at the antipodes of Jerusalem. The closest land is the island of Rapa Iti, in French Polinesia.
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  24. The Swedish self-proclaimed werewolf at 15:25 insisted that the werewolves were "God's dogs".
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  25. Good to be a god.
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  26. that had actually been the first dome bigger than the Pantheon's one.
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  27. Dandolo had ben pretty beneficial to Venice. If some non-Venetian was not so enthralled by him, his bad. Also, maybe massacrating Venetian citizens had not been that great of an idea, and not paying your mercenaries had never been a good one.
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  28. A Mary Sue is a central character that isnt's challenged by the plot. It doesn't count how powerful he is, or if he is the centre of the universe. A charcter can legitimately be the centre of the universe (IE think of Harui Suzumiya) without being a Mary Sue. That's why Goku isn't a Mary Sue. In his case, the plot is specifically made to challenge him. It doesn't count how powerful he is. There are always characters that are as, or more, powerful. It doesn't count if he gets power-ups. Power ups are legit in his universe (that's specifically stated) and many characters get them. It doesnt' count if he generally wins. Not only that's true for many heroes (plot armour doesn't make Mary Sues), but, contrary to many of them, we know that he can loose (it happened several times) or even die (it happened several times).
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  29. Always pay your mercenaries. The "selling out it's neighbours to the Mongols" is utter bullshit.
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  30. It's because Inferno is much easier to read, and Dante perfectly knew it. He advises in the first canto of the Purgatory that it would be much more difficult to follow him, and in the second canto of the Paradise he recommends the ones that followed him only for fun to not go further.
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  31. When your fhater tries to beat you (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Latins ), it's time to demonstrate him that you have grown much stronger than he is.
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  32. Leonardo made sure that none of the weapons he desighed had ever been realised. Fortresses, yes, bridges, yes, every sort of machine, yes, but not weapons.
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  33. Don't forget that Sisyphus had been Laertes' guest around the time Ulysses was conceived. There were rumors in the antiquity that he was the actual father.
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  34. That's how the Gunpowder Plot failed. Conspiacies that involve too many people DON'T WORK.
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  35. That's only Aeschylus' version of the mith. According to Euripides, Orestes and Electra were condemned to death by a court in Mycenae and saved by the intervent of Menelaus, that persuaded (or forced at swordpoint) the Myceneans to give them a year of exile instead. It was not game over however, since Orestes was still persecuted by the furies and ,in order to escape them, he was ordered by Apollo to go to Tauris, carry off the statue of Artemis which had fallen from heaven, and to bring it to Athens. In Tauris Orestes found his lost sister, Iphigenia, taken away from sacrifice by Artemis and rised as one of his priestess, was saved by her, and returned with her and the statue to Mycenae, so reuniting what was left of the family and finally being freed from the persecution. There are other versions as well. Aeschylus' turned it into an advertising for Athen's legal system. Even if the goal was not much to declare the inferiority of the mother over the father (mind that half of the jury did not agree, even with Apollo as the defense attorney), but that, as the Romans would have said "in dubio pro reo", when the votes of the judges are evenly divided, mercy must prevail.
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  36. What's really astounding is that the violin is practically unchanged since late 16th century. It was made for now mostly forgotten music, accompained by now forgotten instruments. Yet it's fully actual.
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  37. To try to dissuade a random girl, that came out of nothing and that none heard of before, to go face a killing machine sent by Artemis herself seems more trying to prevent a suicide that being a dick. The other participants were ALL famed warriors and hunters.
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  38. For Christians, and Dante as well, hell, heaven and purgatory are not eternal. Souls will reside there until the day of judgment, when the dead ones will resurrect in their own bodies and anyone will be judged. Then the righteous will reside with God, and the unwhorty will be consumed in fire. Purgatory was conceived for two reasons: First of all several passages of the Bible states that's right to pray for the dead ones, for them to be absolved of their sins, but what's the use to pray for someone that is already in heaven, or already in hell? There must be a "third place" where the prayers of the living ones can have effect on the destiny of the sous of the dead ones. The second is Zechariah 13:9 "This third I will put into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them" So there is a place in the afterlife where souls are not damned not saved, but tested before being saved.
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  39.  @johnnygreenface  Is like saying that every piece of literature ever vritten with an angel or a demon in it is a fan fiction of the bible.
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  40.  @johnnygreenface  And obviously is like saying that the bible itself IS fanfiction, because it had not been the first piece of literature with angels or demons in it.
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  41.  @johnnygreenface  No. It doesn't feature "all the important characters in the bible". The only "important characters" of the bible that Dante sees are God and the Devil. Not really an exclusive of the bible. Sorry, but you should at least know what you are talking about. Is set in OUR world. Like much of the literature. Is like looking at a story with a starship and commenting "Oh! A fan fiction of Star Trek." Or, again, is like saying that every piece of literature ever vritten with an angel or a demon in it is a fan fiction of the bible.
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  42.  @johnnygreenface  Something doesn't become real only because you like it. Stop bothering me if you have not better arguments.
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  43.  @jandiqar  I dind't search for the one I was answering to, like I didn't search for you. He started discussing with me, like you did. But at least he seemed to have something remotely related to the argument to say. Unlike you.
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  44.  @sneednfeed5559  Oh, a grammar nazi. The last resource of the losers.
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  45. In the Comedy, Beatrice represents teology (infact, like Virgil couldn't led Dante up to the peak of earthly paradise, Beatrice couldn't led him to the final vision of God, since teology can't bring you to a real knowledge of God). The "second girlfriend", that distracted him, was poetry.
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  46.  @mattymag2394  And he won the world martial arts tournament only at the third attempt. He lost to Muten Rōshi the first time and to Tien Shinhan the second.
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  47.  @56jklove  Is because there are so many of them that Red had to choose the wrong example?
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  48.  @hypotheticalaxolotl  He's in two cities. The main part of the bones are in Bari. The rest is in Venice.
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  49. In the Comedy, Beatrice represents teology (infact, like Virgil couldn't led Dante up to the peak of earthly paradise, Beatrice couldn't led him to the final vision of God, since teology can't bring you to a real knowledge of God, only ecstasy can do that, that's why she's replaced by St. Bernard). The "second girlfriend", that distracted him, was poetry.
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  50. You missed two things. The Mose (Venice is a lot less wet these days) and the Egyptian museum of Turin (considered the most important outside Egypt, for quantity and quality of the items).
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