Athenian Stranger ✓

@Athens_Stranger · joined 28 Dec 2020

I teach the Great Books of our tradition ||Excellence in education: Intro through PhD level || SubStack @AthensCorner

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Athenian Stranger ✓@Athens_Stranger18 Sep

I taught Hobbes and Thucydides yesterday, with significant reference to Aristotle and Rousseau I’m teaching Nietzsche today I’m teaching Homer and Plato all weekend Life is very good 3.3K views · 206 likes · 4 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Athenian Stranger ✓@Athens_Stranger17 Sep

I go through Socrates’s description of the cave in the opening of book 7 to Plato’s Republic Almost two hours on two pages, and emphasizing some Greek words used by Socrates so definitive of the cave You will learn more here than from entire series by others https://t.co/XorD8c

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Athenian Stranger ✓@Athens_Stranger17 Sep

@Athens_Stranger Plato's Republic 26 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Athenian Stranger ✓@Athens_Stranger16 Sep

John Adams wrote the following about Bolingbroke’s “Letters on the Study and Use of History” to Thomas Jefferson in 1813: “There is nothing so profound, correct, and perfect on the subject of government written in English or any other language” Let that sink in … 3.2K views · 85 likes · 5 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Athenian Stranger ✓@Athens_Stranger16 Sep

@Athens_Stranger Washington used to walk around with a copy of Lives under his arm 99 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Athenian Stranger ✓@Athens_Stranger16 Sep

@Athens_Stranger And now nobody even knows Plutarch. 126 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Athenian Stranger ✓@Athens_Stranger16 Sep

“If we were required to decide what ancient writings have most directly influenced the modern world, the award must probably go to Plutarch’s Lives and the philosophical works of Cicero” ~ J.L. Strachan-Davidson (1894) 3.6K views · 77 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Athenian Stranger ✓@Athens_Stranger23 Dec 2025

@Athens_Stranger To use a minute symbol instead of an apostrophe spoils the performance of any campaign for reading books. You cannot be a serious scribe if you fail to write this sign so common in English. It’s utter neglect. 1.2K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Athenian Stranger ✓@Athens_Stranger22 Dec 2025

And here are the texts I worked from for those interested in following along with me from the primary sources: https://t.co/Wlm5TLoaiS

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Athenian Stranger ✓@Athens_Stranger22 Dec 2025

… and here’s the link: https://t.co/XfyURbTk1g 11.6K views · 63 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Athenian Stranger ✓@Athens_Stranger22 Dec 2025

You’re going to really enjoy this one — link in comment https://t.co/kOCKxoCFS2

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7 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 10K–100K abonnés. diffusé bien au-delà de son propre public, et ce public réagit.

Vues médianes2 919ce compte924médiane pour 10K–100K

Portée, %7.15%ce compte3.62%médiane pour 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.33%ce compte1.52%médiane pour 10K–100K

Indicateur	Ce compte	Médiane pour 10K–100K	Rapport
Vues médianes par post	2 919	924	3.16×
Portée (vues ÷ abonnés)	7.15%	3.62%	1.97×
Taux d'engagement	2.33%	1.52%	1.53×

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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

202.9K22 Dec

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1.2K23 Dec

3.6K16 Sep

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Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.30%22 Dec

0.60%

0.99%

0.76%23 Dec

2.33%16 Sep

1.59%

1.01%

2.94%

3.85%17 Sep

2.23%

6.65%18 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes60.5%1 080 in total

Reposts5.1%91 in total

Replies1.7%31 in total

Quotes0.6%11 in total

Bookmarks32.0%572 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

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