/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2444065
>more anachronistic than Xena

>>2443931
I think the main difference was that the hand-wielded ballista of classical era shot normal arrows or something similar.

Medieval crossbows shot FMJ-bolts.

Yet no matter how effective it might had been against a knight's armor (tight on his body) I don't think the projectile would be able to keep it's momentum after impact with a shield ever if it pierced through it.

>>2443881
Not with visitors.

Wipe your feet and leave your million-men armies to the door before you enter.

Sages from foreign lands were of high regard at that time, especially middle Easterners and Egyptians (because astronomy and shit).

Even savages, like Galatians, were occationally admired for their courage or martial achievements.

>>2443730
>My tutor was a very overweight Oxford don in his late fifties
>>2443755
Imokeywiththis.jpg

>>2443738
got the point don't worry

>>2443667
>My tutor always use to tell us about how rarely Greeks used indicative verbs and how we should use participles when there's more than one word in a sentence
Seems the dude knew his shit. One of my literature teachers used to mention that a lot. And she was an ultranerd on the subject... and hawt.... and she turned me down because I was 16 and she was married... ;_;

>>2443637
Archimedes used lens.

Seriously making glass out of calcium-rich sand in Greece is not that hard for a /sci/borg. Greece has more sandy beaches than any European country (I think its only second to Norway in terms of coastline but even in that case, Norway is mainly cliffs and fjords) and most of its rocks is sedimantary limestone.

>>2443649
Just use your futuristic knowledge and do something impressive to gain their attention.

This guy >>2443434 was sold as a slave by pirates at some point.

Some filthy-rich Corinthian show-off immediatelly bought him to make him a teacher for his kids, without knowing who he is, just because he was a witty smartass.

>>2443615
I see. I am kinda confused with the use of participles in other than present use since modern Greek don't use it. If its used as a verb makes the sentaince to be a bit undescriptive. (ωφελήσει in what subject?)...

>>2443590
>then you could write it as well
Since high-school I am kinda rusty with using multiple tones and less than the original characters of the alphabet. It would be a bit wtfamireading in the beginning but I am confident I would be able to understand context to the detail.

I would surely not be able to speak it without sounding derpy for the first few months/years and my writing would be crude at best unless I had some serious guidance.

>>2443572
>και μεγας ποες ὠφελησει
>και μεγα πέος ὠφελειν
fixed

quite impressed!

I don't even have a font for ancient.

CAPTCHA: ionewsu eastern (rofl)

>>2443550
It wasn't that widespread since most ceramics were based on clay at that time. But if he could convince someone important that he could make such a trinket I bet he would be provided with whatever materials he needed. Local despots used to fund philosophers and inventors quite a lot back then.

>>2443448
>I can read and write Ancient Greek now, so I'd be on easy street.

How can you tell in ancient Greek "don't mind me being a barbarian, in the far future Greece is a shithole and a big penis is widely considered an advantage"?

>>2443440
>I'd probably be a plague-rat to them

Unless you have AIDS most diseazes were pretty much the same back then.

Pretty much the same livestock species with today and you are probably vaccinated against most shit.

>Assuming you can understand Ancient Greek, and can speak, but not read or write it (if you can't read it now).
Hey that's cheating!

Why can't I have an advantage over the rest of the /sci/entists?

olive people are superior

>>2183242
I mean the:
>they would speak in Greek amongst themselves
part

CAPTCHA: mythdrop leaders,

>the senators would have symposia ( a greek tradition) they would speak in Greek amongst themselves
haven't heard of that one before, sauce please?

>>2183090
you misunderstand vital aspect of ancient Greek culture

>>2183129
you are certainly closer to the truth

which is that ancient Greeks probably fucked everything that moved,

just in the case of the highly disciplined Spartans though local costumes forced that they had to resist their urges and redirect all their libido to young-teen boys they intended to give military training.

>>2183115
sure

you sound upset though

>>2183099
They pretty much got assimilated by the Romans, but since they were conquered they practically collapsed.

>if the ancient greeks did not collapse due to hellenic cosmopolitainism and foreign barbarian pressures?

if we(they/our-claimed-ancestors) were too bigoted about "barbarians" back then, you Northern/Western europeans would not stand a chance to become what you are today. You had a pretty bad reputation for barbarism back then.

So thank Odin or Thor or whoever, that hellenist Greeks were tolerant and got eventually fucked by sandniggers and italian guidos.

>>2056738
>mary/saints aren't divine.
So don't they take their charisma modifier to their AC?

>>2056714
>you have to be trying to go to hell to get there
or be a good person and don't believe in an omnipotent anthropomorphic God with no solid evidence about the extraordinary claim of his existance