#this is about athanasius' life of antony btw (obvs also me just being haunted by plato and socrates and the fact the logos is still | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

poetryqueer · 1 month ago

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finding out the writer of an ancient biography or whateverwas just a person who knew that person before they died will never not destroy me. like what do you mean you kept telling everyone their story again and again and again for the rest of your life. what do you mean you wrote it down and spread it so they weren't forgotten. what do you mean your name is still tied to theirs two millennia later. what do you mean you suceeded.

#honestly most normal response to the insanity that is friendship #this is about athanasius' life of antony btw (obvs also me just being haunted by plato and socrates and the fact the logos is still #being communicated but WHATEVER)#whites' early christian lives p. xxii line about athanasius talking about antony and leading a woman to taking up asceticism #like he just kept talking about him #i know antony was famed in life but fuck athanasius met him #he saw that man and yeah maybe it was to promote anti arianism but #he wrote down his story and spoke about him and that is something #capstone #not really but also god plato did that

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