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Threadbane

@blacklight
Great toot! The Voyager was truly an amazing feat!
And not to be picky, but the Pantheon is Ancient Greek. 8^)

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Threadbane

@justpeachy @blacklight
My god, I'm MORTIFIED! 8^) You are absolutely correct. I was blinded by the Greek! (I've read the Odyssey and the Iliad in the original, so...running on inertia.)

justpeachy

@Threadbane @blacklight nothing to be too embarrassed about! I had to search it up myself. I’d never heard of a building called the Pantheon, only the word referring to religions with many gods.

Threadbane

@justpeachy @blacklight
The Parthenon is a temple to Athena Parthenos, the guardian goddess of Athens. Parthenos means virgin in Homeric Greek. I looked it up, but I actually knew that when I was about 17, when I was taking Homeric Greek.

Dan Ciruli :verified:

@Threadbane @justpeachy @blacklight I'm sorry, this is the Internet. We don't admit we were wrong and apologize here.

(In all seriousness: the world would be a FAR better place if more people could do what you did here! Instant follow)

Angry Centrist

@Threadbane @blacklight The Parthenon (Athens) vs the Pantheon (Rome.) While the facade of the Pantheon does exhibit the usual Roman thievery of Greek visual elements, its engineering and construction is distinctly Roman with a domed concrete(!) roof the ancient Greeks lacked the technology to produce.

Orión Montoya

@Threadbane are you confusing the Pantheon with the Parthenon?

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