Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

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Extremely niche offering, but I’m about to try getting all five volumes of the (public domain) Wachsmuth & Hense Stobaeus printed for myself on Lulu as cheap paperbacks if anyone else on #ClassicsTwitter is interested https://twitter.com/ryanfb/status/1446648104338526209

10/14/2021, 11:36:23 AM

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Alright, maybe more than 5 volumes because Lulu has an 800-page limit so I’m going to have to engage in some light book-breaking

10/14/2021, 12:18:13 PM

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10/14/2021, 1:02:44 PM

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Will report back on the process and how it turned out, because it is not straightforward at all to go from a PDF you download from @internetarchive to something Lulu will accept for printing

10/14/2021, 8:27:36 PM

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Loebs? Where we’re going, we don’t need Loebs

10/21/2021, 2:03:53 PM

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Process write-up: https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2021/10/21/printing_public_domain_books_on_lulu.html

10/21/2021, 9:26:53 PM

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Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

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Anyway, I'm engaging in the total fool's errand of actually reading Stobaeus. Just took me way too long to realize that there was a folk etymology argument being made here in Περὶ Ἀριθμητικῆς citing Ps.Plutarch, groan when you get it:

10/21/2021, 10:36:26 PM

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Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

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Waded through a whole bunch of Pythagoreans I’ve never even heard of before this morning, and if you want to read a bunch of early Greek philosophy that’s almost been entirely neglected by “Early Greek Philosophy”—Stobaeus is the place https://twitter.com/ryanfb/status/1446655856184020993

10/23/2021, 12:27:38 PM

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Another reaction is that contrary to what seems to be the popular opinion that Stobaeus is just selecting at random or recompiling earlier compositors under his selected topics—he is instead specifically selecting, editing, ordering, and commenting on his excerpts as an argument

10/26/2021, 7:28:10 PM

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The fragments often, when read straight through instead of in atomized isolation, are arranged to present a coherent new line of thought, like the work of a centoist

10/26/2021, 7:29:44 PM

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Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

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Data visualization of chapter length in book 1 of Stobaeus:

10/27/2021, 6:26:52 PM

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