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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We take it as the ultimate compliment, though

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BIG NEWS! I am launching a new podcast together with colleagues from the Cluster of Excellence on Cross-Cultural Philology here at the LMU in Munich. It's called Pages of History and will appear once a month, following today's initial launch with three episodes. pagesofhistorypodcast.net

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Honoured to see my book on Aristotle's ontology of artefacts appearing and being discussed in Phronesis' Book Notes from 2022 to 2026. Beyond honoured to see it after David Charles' simply unmatchable work.

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

When a former student of yours throws @lastpositivist.bsky.social back at you when you least expect it, i.e. on an IG story about your child

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

My paper "Aristotle on the Role of Attention in the Conflict between Friendship and Politics" has just come out in this volume edited by Kristin Sampson and Oda Tvedt. I have to thank them for encouraging me to think and write about things that matter in life, like friendship and politics.

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Chapter 2: Aristotle on the Role of Attention in the Conflict Between Friendship and Politics

Our obligations to our city and our obligations to our friends might conflict with each other. Friendship can become a threat to politics because the duties to our friends regularly speak louder than ...

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I am forever impressed with women who, during pregnancy, learn a new skill; that’s not uncommon. I only learned how to sleep even harder.

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Your dearest is giving a talk at this exciting conference on the reception of hylomorphism. Lyon sounds amazing but Even is still 5 months, so I'll be speaking remotely.

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

A fourth (!) review of my book has just come out in the International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 🙂

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Online archive of testimonies and fragments related to ancient women philosophers!

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Women philosophers in antiquity

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I also would like to be added! Thank you!

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I enjoyed being pregnant so much that I could read these fragments attributed to Democritus with delight. But I do not recommend reading them while expecting.

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I became a mother in December and I do not believe for a second that the most sleep deprived the happiest, this is just laughable. And I resent the women in my life who lied to me (basically all).

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

5. The next best thing: multifunctional objects in art and dualizers in the animal kingdom 6. Things gone wrong: failed-art and natural monstrosities 7. On the difference between failures and spontaneously generated beings

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

These are the sections of my contribution, in case anyone is curious: 1. The concept of παρὰ φύσιν and the art analogy 2. Aristotle’s analogical notion of παρὰ τέχνην 3. Deviations and failures 4. The role of mistakes (ἁμαρτίαι) in deviations, failures and successful outcomes [continues...]

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

On March 11th my paper "Things Gone Wrong: Aristotle on Deviations and Failures in Art and Nature" will appear in this great volume on the concept of "against nature" (παρὰ φύσιν) in Aristotle.

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Hiking in October around Bergen is just phenomenal.

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Starting a new thread to collect critical perspectives on AI, as they are articulated dozens of times every day and appear repeatedly on my timeline. I can't read everything right away, but if, like me, you want to stay up to date, then this might help a bit:

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Miira Tuominen and I edited this new book from Brill with no fewer than 25 chapters on various aspects of ancient and medieval philosophy in Greek, Arabic, and Latin texts. Actually there's a little Persian in there too. brill.com/display/titl...

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Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy

"Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy" published on 29 Sep 2025 by Brill.

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

In animal studies there is a distinction between things that are for the benefit of the user (homes) and things for the benefit of the maker through the harm of the user (traps). I suppose improvement of a trap qua trap is an increase of its potential for harm.

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The Norwegian national sport betting company channels its profits to Norwegian sport and culture. Here in Norway this is seen as an improvement for non-addicted users but I’m not sure that it doesn’t also make it more addictive. At least it makes it more attractive.

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Fresh off the press! A paper in a wonderful volume edited by Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social and Miira Tuominen ("Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy"). This has been the most fun I had in writing a paper, as it combines my favourite topics: Aristotle, animals, and artefacts.

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Marilù Papandreou, Builders and Weavers of the Animal Kingdom: Non-Human Poiêsis in Aristotle and the Ancient Commentators - PhilPapers

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Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

So where can you go teach where students are told not to use genAI? It's for a friend

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

"Anyone who works in manuscript studies or philology knows that these are thoroughly digital disciplines. ... Accusations of technophobia ... would therefore be completely inappropriate. It is precisely our technical literacy ... that must make us critical." @dehypotheses.bsky.social

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Leaving Academia.edu: ‘AI’ and Information Loss

1. Yesterday I deleted my Academia.edu account. This has a direct impact on my work here. I would like to reflect on this in this post. But first things first: What happened? Already back in May, I no...

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

True, and for long enough time, at least in my experience. I had a short period around 8 years ago where I could hit the high by running a little longer than 1 hour at moderate effort, but I never experienced it anymore since then.

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

In Norway young men are moving right, not young women

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Aristotle, Historia Animalium IX.48 on the case of dolphins discussed by @susanamonso.com in her “Playing Possum” as an instance of animal care behaviors towards individuals in distress.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I'm always trying to come up with child friendly insults for Loki to use and I think "You massive landlord" is a winner.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Amazing photo of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open by Ray Giubilo

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I am very pleased that my paper “Artworks, Technical Artefacts, and a Few Other Things: A Fresh Aristotelian Approach” is now published in Synthese! This is my first publication outside ancient philosophy or history of philosophy, so I am particularly satisfied. And it’s Open Access.

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Artworks, technical artefacts, and a few other things: a fresh Aristotelian approach - Synthese

I advance an Aristotelian approach by which we shall find a unified account of technical artefacts and artworks. The unification is conceptually available to Aristotle not because he does not have a s...

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I feel you. Part of my family is Greek but I’m an ancient philosophy scholar and the latter soul always wins

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Paolini Musetti! Also curious to see Światek Ruud

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Ancient philosophy people are so great at labels.

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Anders Dahl Sørensen @andersdahlsorensen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Seeking advice from colleagues and friends #classicssky, #ancientsky: the press that has recently published by book is now asking me to sign a AI addendum that would allow them to include the volume in future AI licensing deals. 1/2

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I didn’t sign it, but I also don’t care about boosting the impact of the book.

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I am sensitive to this point, but it does not answer the why-question in this case. What makes me leave is that not only there was no consent but also no notice. And really, this paper is of interest for maximum 5 people in the world... better do this for something students might need.

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Marilù Papandreou @marilupapandreou.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

The question is “why?” but the answer is “time to leave”.

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