Catherine Nixey - The Darkening Age (Interview)

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ต.ค. 2024

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  • @leowang5243
    @leowang5243 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just bought this book! amazing!

  • @furtivedolus2504
    @furtivedolus2504 หลายเดือนก่อน

    To be clear, Sappho was at most bisexual, not a lesbian in the modern sense at any rate. It's a minor point, but worth mentioning.

  • @SagesseNoir
    @SagesseNoir 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Some aspects of her criticism of ancient Christianity reminds me of Nietzsche's criticism

  • @markmitchell8539
    @markmitchell8539 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Stoicism was very close to Christian ethics. A lot of Stoic ethics was borrowed by Christianity.

  • @arnabkumarbanerjee8150
    @arnabkumarbanerjee8150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    we should rethink Christianity again. we should dug the old church ground to find remains of our classical past and we should uncover that past from christian church to reclaim classical victory over christian present.

    • @Metanoia7-J
      @Metanoia7-J 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂

  • @mervincrasto6867
    @mervincrasto6867 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Her book is critically denounced not only by Christian scholars, but also by atheist scholars like Tim o'Niel.

    • @leowang5243
      @leowang5243 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      because they are educated in a Christian way. They are not enlightened like Catherine who has awakened from the instilled social norms forming by Christian ideologies.

    • @mervincrasto6867
      @mervincrasto6867 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@leowang5243 th-cam.com/video/1V-lD0KaoBA/w-d-xo.html
      This is an academic review by another historian. There are many such historians, having similar views of this book.

    • @skepticus5705
      @skepticus5705 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And lauded by countless others. Can't please everybody, nor should you expect to.

    • @mervincrasto6867
      @mervincrasto6867 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@skepticus5705 not exactly lauded by countless. There is an in depth analysis and debunking the narratives in this book. th-cam.com/video/1V-lD0KaoBA/w-d-xo.html

  • @arnabkumarbanerjee8150
    @arnabkumarbanerjee8150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    we do it in india already. we dug up babri masjid to find ram mandir remnant below it. that was our classical hindu past. europeans should do it in europe instead of digging in egypt or india.

    • @Metanoia7-J
      @Metanoia7-J 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂

  • @300ik
    @300ik 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Peter Thonemann,
    professor of ancient history at the University of Oxford, argues that Nixey's work is problematic, and that "the argument depends on quite a bit of nifty footwork", because Nixey makes a large number of broad generalizations based on limited evidence. He also states that the deliberate destruction of ancient temples by Christians "seems to have been exceptionally rare in real life" and that the Christian book-burning was always directed towards heretical or "magical" writing, and not towards classical literature

    • @RohitSharma-mi8gt
      @RohitSharma-mi8gt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And the Christians get to decide what’s “magical or heretical” lol ! Christianity did not have traditio hence it was not religio. This is why Romans did not allow Christians to take part in the “polis” ! To be a traditio you have to show that you have practices based in antiquity. The philosophers around Rome, trier, Alexandria and other parts of black Egypt (Hypatia) were especially critical of Christianity’s aversion to intellectualism. Even many scholars of early Christianity come from Egypt and Aetheopis who mocked Christianity.

    • @300ik
      @300ik 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@RohitSharma-mi8gt ...mocked Christianity because they were Neoplatonists such as Hypatia... according to them human spirit can be united with the internal One (God) via magic, spiritualism and alchemy.... Christianity far more serious, that's why people... mocked.."philosophers"...in the end

    • @SagesseNoir
      @SagesseNoir 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@300ik Neoplatonists were not the only pagans who mocked Christianity

    • @300ik
      @300ik 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SagesseNoir yes worshippers of animals, emperors, planets,.rivers, trees etc.... All sickness of the old world

    • @leowang5243
      @leowang5243 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@300ik why sickness? all things are one. All things have values and should get respects. People in the old times know this and they respect and value all things.

  • @jb3332
    @jb3332 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Heard of Nero?

    • @alanmacleod6843
      @alanmacleod6843 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      she's got a chapter on him in the book

    • @jb3332
      @jb3332 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      and it’s revisionist

    • @zabooza74
      @zabooza74 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @AnarchoRepublican We didn't start the Fire (of Rome)...

    • @zabooza74
      @zabooza74 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @AnarchoRepublican Well christians set fire to Rome and he made them into marvellous Candlesticks seems like an appropriate retaliation for arson to me...

    • @zabooza74
      @zabooza74 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @AnarchoRepublican Yeah but Tacitus like Cicero was kind of a libtard and a fan of the Republic sort of the hysterical Nevertrumper or Michael Moore of his age, he would have blamed pretty much anything on Nero as long as it would have fited his narrative, so quite unreliable. That is also the only reason the Christians didn't destroy his writings, despite it's pagan character. As for burning being against the Christian Religion I don't think so, didn't they burn a whole lot of Witches and Heretics later? Sounds a lot like what Nero did to his enemies, if you ask me...