Athenaeum Book Club ✓
@athenaeumbc · joined 06 Feb 2023
An online book club studying and preserving the great texts of Western Civilization. Join our reading group 👇
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“But I should like to preface the inquiry with a brief examination of the following question: Is it reasonable, is it sensible, to boast of the extent and grandeur of empire, when you cannot show that men lived in happiness, as they passed their lives amid the horrors of war,
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Augustine had little patience for the glory of empire at the cost of human misery.
In The City of God he writes:
“But I should like to preface the inquiry with a brief examination of the following question: Is it reasonable, is it sensible, to boast of the extent and grandeur h
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"The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but — what is far worse — the slave of as many masters as he has vices."
— The City of God, Book IV, Chapter 3
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Augustine believed that freedom is about more than power. A king can be less free than a peasant.
In The City of God he put it this way:
“For the evils inflicted on the righteous by their wicked masters are not punishments for crime but tests of virtue. The good man, though a h
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What an amazing thing to wake up to this morning! Thank you everyone 🙏
This community is such a joy and honor to be a part of.
Our read-along of Augustine's City of God is about to begin. This weekend, we'll publish the schedule and initial discussion thread. Happy reading! htt
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To confirm, we're reading this version: Bettenson translation (Penguin Classics).
Here's the link: https://t.co/WBNObQHf2y https://t.co/mhUkjP0xaH
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Join our reading group here:
Read the Great Books in dialogue with others.
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If schools and universities won't teach the great books of the West, we must form our own reading groups.
We just finished our 14th book at Athenaeum!!
TIME TO VOTE. What should we read next?
1. Politics — Aristotle
2. On Duties — Cicero
3. City of God — Augustine
4. Beowulf h
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We're streaming our book club discussion on The Brothers Karamazov right now!
Join us:
https://t.co/awYHIUj2aH
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Today is a great day...
We are discussing The Brothers Karamazov in our book club. The greatest psychological novel ever written.
Join our discussion group. You will not regret it.
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“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
— Henry Ward Beecher https://t.co/VPguuiu4Fw
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@athenaeumbc This book is also excellent https://t.co/Dw0Zdp7Mhd
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Join our reading group. You won't regret it.
Very soon we are starting our next book.
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Lots of you have asked for our reading list, so here are a bunch of the key texts we'll be selecting from. Note: this also includes the 14 we've already read. The books in this image (chronological):
Homer — The Iliad
Homer — The Odyssey
Aeschylus — The Oresteia
Aeschylus —
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These books will give you a better education than virtually any school curriculum in the West today.
You can now go from kindergarten to PhD without reading one word of Homer, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Augustine, Dante, or Milton...
We set up this book club to fight
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Join our reading group. You will not regret it.
Take out a paid membership if you'd like to support what we're doing:
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Friends — we're about to start our most exciting read-along yet.
The Brothers Karamazov.
If you've been on the fence about joining the book club, now's the time. You do not want to miss this.
We are reading it over the next 6-7 weeks. First discussion is on August 4, covering
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Mont Saint-Michel is proof that beauty is objective.
It is impossible not to be awestruck by it. https://t.co/cOlw1HpegS
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@athenaeumbc I love it but gotta include some hard labor and building projects. Just reading isn’t gonna make mount st Michelle.
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We're about to start our next book together.
Join us.
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Why did human beings ever build things like this?
Because their minds were ordered toward objective Beauty and Truth.
We must order our minds as they did — that's why we started this book club.
Our group is studying the great texts and ideas upon which Western Civilization was
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Against accounts of the same size
19 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views22 890this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %6.28%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.69%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
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| Median views per post | 22 890 | 5 983 | 3.83× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 6.28% | 1.49% | 4.21× |
| Engagement rate | 0.69% | 0.93% | 0.74× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.37%28 Aug
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes51.9%11 497 in total
Reposts4.9%1 079 in total
Replies1.4%304 in total
Quotes0.4%81 in total
Bookmarks41.4%9 170 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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