Battle of Backbone Mountain

ἀνθολογητής

"one who gathers flowers; a flower-gatherer"

agentive noun from ἀνθολογέω, "I gather flowers"

(from ἄνθος, flower, and λόγος, from λέγω, here "I collect")

[21:43] <redacted> @anthologetes is violently inclusionist, to put it bluntly. they advocated similar policies on [redacted] wiki, too.

I am here to gather flowers. That is, I mostly do gnome work. I'm most interested classical and Christian subjects, though I will fix anything I come across.

In an ideal world I would tackle the much-needed cleanup of the Book of Revelation page, but this is not an ideal world. I think a better place to start may be Events of Revelation, anyway. The page is wholly unnecessary and I would push for its deletion; failing that, though, I think it either ought to be moved to "Outline of Revelation" to distance the texts from the non-neutral perspective that Revelation posits "events" or, failing that, more analytical sections ought to be added to qualify the nature of "events" in the text (such as recapitulatory readings that suggest that the events of the text are essentially recapitulated between the cycles of seven). Will I ever find the time to do this, though? Who's to say. I'll have to review masses of material again for my master's thesis soon, so I might improve the articles as I go.

Sappho 2

Come here from Crete to this holy temple,
where there is a beautiful grove
of apple trees, and altars smoking
with frankincense—

In this place, cold water resounds through the apple branches,
and roses overshadow the whole place,
and deep sleep streams down
from the quivering leaves—

In this place is a meadow where horses graze,
that blooms with spring flowers, sweet-smelling,
and blown by gentle breezes [...]—

Here you, Cypress, pray take up the wreathes
and delicately pour the nectar
into golden wine-cups, mixing it
in our celebration.