Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy • Hacker News Board

Re: Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

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Post by throwfaraway135 » Sun, May 24, 2026, 1:26 PM UTC

bazoom42 wrote: post #269

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I don't get your argument. You can look at historical monuments or modern Greeks and Brad Pitt doesn't look to different from them. Let me try to elaborate on my argument. Imagine you are in a park and there are three children playing, child A, B and C. Imagine child A has 10 toys, B has 7 and C 1. Now if you forcefully took toys from A and B and gave them to C, then that's patronizing behavior as it means "you can't…

What historical monuments are you referring to?

I'm surprised anyone would ask. For example this https://www.worldhistory.org/image/6002/marble-bust-of-a-you...

Re: Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

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Post by airstrike » Sun, May 24, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

moi2388 wrote: post #157

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Obligatory "Cleopatra lived closer to the creation of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid"

In time, not space.

Slow clap...

Re: Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

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Post by protocolture » Sun, May 24, 2026, 10:44 PM UTC

aragilar wrote: post #201

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Well, interstellar has also some nerd stuff in it. If I remember correctly Kip Thorne did physics consulting on the movie and they even use a simulation running on a cluster to visualize the black hole physically correct. They could have used some arbitrary CGI…but no, they wanted it accurate according to science. https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03808

And yet the rest of the movie runs on movie logic, enough so that every physicist I know rolls their eyes at it. It gives me the vibe of the "IFLS" crowd, not anyone who actually understands science.

Yeah its a bugbear of mine "oh its so accurate" theres like 2 accurate scenes, and most of it (from economics/agriculture to space physics) is completely bonkers.

Sadly its a lot of "Filmbros first serious scifi movie" and thats something you cant disentangle, its love its not rational.

Re: Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

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Post by bazoom42 » Wed, May 27, 2026, 12:54 PM UTC

throwfaraway135 wrote: post #271

bazoom42 wrote: post #269

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What historical monuments are you referring to?

I'm surprised anyone would ask. For example this https://www.worldhistory.org/image/6002/marble-bust-of-a-you...

Are you aware this is from the Roman era, more than a 1000 years after Achilles supposedly lived?

Also, this does not particularly look like Brad Pitt. If you are referring to the greyish color of the marble, be aware statues were painted in antiquity.