[HN Gopher] How to Roman Republic 101
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How to Roman Republic 101
Author : ecliptik
Score : 75 points
Date : 2023-07-28 04:37 UTC (18 hours ago)
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| erehweb wrote:
| If you are interested in the Roman Republic and board games, you
| should check out Republic of Rome, which has the interesting
| feature that without some cooperation among the players, the
| Republic will fall to barbarians or the mob and everyone will
| lose.
| mertbio wrote:
| I love almost everything on this blog but it is super hard for me
| to read long texts on a screen. Would be amazing if the author
| publishes each series as a book.
| SonicScrub wrote:
| Not a book, but the acoup blogs are available in audio form:
|
| https://m.youtube.com/@AGreatDivorce
|
| I am not sure if that helps your situation, but I personally
| prefer to "read" this blog in this format. Life is busy and
| this lets me learn while doing mindless tasks like
| cooking/cleaning.
| packetslave wrote:
| "Would be amazing if the person giving me all this amazing FREE
| content would do a bunch of additional work because I don't
| like how they did it" is peak 2023 Internet.
| paxys wrote:
| Where exactly did they imply that the book has to be free?
| _jal wrote:
| "I would rather scold people than read for comprehension" is,
| well, sadly typical HN any year.
| Turing_Machine wrote:
| > Would be amazing if the person giving me all this amazing
| FREE content
|
| He has a Patreon with 1,300 paid subscribers, bringing in
| nearly $6,000/month.
|
| > would do a bunch of additional work
|
| Like hef19898, I suspect the OP would be very happy to pay
| for a book.
| thebooktocome wrote:
| Not behind the paywall = free content. That's the
| fundamental rule of running a Patreon.
| CydeWeys wrote:
| As a subscriber to Bret's Patreon for over a year now,
| I'm doing it as a donation to support his work, not as a
| quid pro quo to get access to more stuff.
| hef19898 wrote:
| From GP:
|
| >> Would be amazing if the author publishes each series as a
| book.
|
| Seems like someone having problems reading long texts on a
| screen, which I get, and would be willing to pay for a
| physical book of the same content.
| sporadicallyjoe wrote:
| You could use a free text to voice application e.g.
| https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/?s=V3715efd32dc2c47409...
| boveus wrote:
| I have always struggled with just how difficult it is to retain
| long form text over HTML. Even if you block the ads, the
| hyperlinks and strange font choices can make it difficult.
|
| The solution I figured out was to use a Kobo e-reader with
| Pocket. The integration with Firefox is actually quite
| seamless. You can basically just take a webpage, save it to
| pocket, and then sync it to your e-reader and read the article
| there. I have found this to be the best way to consume acoup's
| content.
| OfSanguineFire wrote:
| If you consider an e-book reader an experience closer to a book
| than a phone/computer screen, there are already browser
| extensions that can export any webpage's Reader view as an EPUB
| or MOBI file.
| andai wrote:
| Did Kindle's Experimental Browser ever stop being
| experimental? Sounds like a Reader Mode could do the exact
| same thing (plus save the book!)
| paxys wrote:
| They removed the Experimental tag. It is a full browser
| now, and has a built-in reader mode.
| mjcohen wrote:
| Tried it, and you are right about experimental being
| gone. I tried signing into google and got a message about
| browser doesn't support Javascript. Gave up.
| macintosh-hd wrote:
| I got there just by searching directly and it works. I
| wish the reader mode had an option to make it work like a
| book though, web scrolling is a nightmare on this thing.
| paxys wrote:
| You can turn JS on or off from settings, but IMO having
| limited support is a feature. The average site would
| wreck havoc on a Kindle's processor and battery life if
| it could run all scripts normally.
| alexwasserman wrote:
| He's working on a Roman history book. He's shared excerpts with
| Pareon subscribers. I'll definitely buy it.
|
| As for the rest, maybe a neat pamphlet.
|
| He's great at long form, in depth content. Some of the series
| like making iron or bread are fantastic.
| rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote:
| It's the choice of colors that make it hard for me. Reader Mode
| in Firefox makes it much better and easier on the eyes.
| dfox wrote:
| Quite recently on ACOUP appeared an button to switch the
| color scheme (the circle with flame emoji in the lower left
| corner). Somewhat ironically for me (who mostly reads it on
| iPhone) the button itself is somewhat distracting while I'm
| perfectly fine with the original dark color scheme.
| themadturk wrote:
| These work really well when sent to Kindle with...umm, Send To
| Kindle. I usually read them on the web, but they're great as
| ebooks.
| toyg wrote:
| It is fairly spectacular how the system of "clientes" (from which
| _clientele_ etc etc), which the Romans effectively invented, is
| still the (unspoken) norm in so many modern countries, more than
| 2300 years later.
| asimpletune wrote:
| For those who are interested, my friends and I have a book club
| that intersects with a lot of these kinds of topics. It's called
| Public Works because it's dedicated to reading books in the
| public domain. We're in the middle of reading Thucydides right
| now, and it's part of a larger arc on classical antiquity. All
| are welcome. Meeting information is on the website
| (https://r33d.org) which is updated at the end of every week.
| Hope to see more HN'ers there!
| jwhitlark wrote:
| If you are interested in physical copies, I highly recommend
| "The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the
| Peloponnesian War" , and others in the Landmark series. I got a
| lot more out of it with all the maps and explanations. Very
| well done.
| dmoy wrote:
| It isn't public domain though, I don't think.
| henjodottech wrote:
| It seems the Thucydides book is a new translation - not in
| public domain?
| Archelaos wrote:
| The translator Steven Lattimore is still alive. GP probably
| won't live to see the translation become public domain. As an
| alternative: read the J. M. Dent translation and then, if you
| want to study it from first principles, learn Ancient Greek
| for the real thing.[1]
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| [1] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:gree
| kLi...
| tome wrote:
| If you're interested in lectures I can recommend The
| Peloponnesian War by Kenneth Harl published by The Great
| Courses (also available on Audible). It's one of the best
| lecture series I've listened to in any subject.
|
| https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/peloponnesian-war
| toyg wrote:
| _> Bologna, Italy time_
|
| _Mo ' soccmel_, what a precise timezone. Do you use the clock
| over Palazzo d'Accursio? ;)
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