Ancient Greek Ship Autism

yfw plane/train autism existed in ancient greece but it was with ships instead 25. Thrasyllus of the deme of Aexone suffered a strange new form of madness. He left the city and went down to live at the Piraeus. He imagined that all the ships coming into harbour there were his own. He made a list of them, attended when they departed once more, and was delighted when they returned safely to the harbour. For a long time he continued to suffer from this mania. But his brother, returning from Sicily, handed him over to a doctor to be cured, and in this way he recovered from the illness. He often recalled his mad hobby and used to say that he had never been so happy as when he rejoiced at the sight of ships which did not belong to him returning safely.⁴⁵

В древней Греции человек испытывал такую же навязчивую радость от наблюдения за транспортом, как современные любители поездов или самолётов, но вместо них следил за кораблями. Шутка переосмысливает современный интернет-мем про «аутизм» поездов и самолётов через исторический пример мании Фрасилла, который считал все прибывающие корабли своими. EN: In ancient Greece, a man experienced the same obsessive joy from watching transportation as modern train or plane enthusiasts, but he followed ships instead. The joke reframes the modern internet meme about “autism” for trains and planes through the historical example of Thrasyllus’s mania, in which he considered every arriving ship his own.

• @right_wing_dev_squads / 15020 2026-10-07