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“Whoever does business with a tyrant is.That man’s slave, even if he starts out free.”. ὅστις γὰρ ὡς τύραννον ἐμπορεύεται.κείνου ‘στι δοῦλος, κἂν ἐλεύθερος μόλῃ #Sophocles.
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My dude. The Iliad is not celebrating the wrath of Achilles.
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Me, every time someone says 'Homer' 'wrote' the Iliad and the Odyssey
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Maybe don't listen to them then.
Human Skulls Suggest Necromancy In Roman-Era Cave Near Jerusalem | IFLScience .
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The modern labors of Herakles.
OFFICER TACKLES PIG: After two days of avoiding police, a rouge pig was taken into custody by a Grantsville police officer on Thursday. Read more:
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Wake up, baby, a new term for capitalist exploitation just dropped.
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#odyssey discourse whirling around, but reading epic is not easy because it is a little weird. 1. I think almost no one in antiquity ‘read’ Homeric epic from beginning to end.
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ODYSSEUS was a TERRIBLE PERSON. He was a TYRANT. He betrayed every ideal he ever claimed to stand for. He was a shameless pathological liar who killed millions of people for his own insatiable vanity. He is literally one of the worst people in history.
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In an accident of scheduling and hilarious twist of fate, Hermes is getting neutered on the same day I am getting a vasectomy. Updates (on Hermes) and thematic testaments to follow.
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Ok, one more thread on Achilles and Odysseus and how we should read Homer then I promise I will chill. The reason I am profoundly unchill about this is the confusion of rich epic narrative for simple paradigmatic propaganda.
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Thesis: The average 18 year old in say Argos in BCE 800 (the the so-called “Greek Dark Ages”) had performed more sacrifices, had more siblings die, memorized more epic poetry, and knew more swordplay, spear-throwing, and wine-drinking than the average University student today.
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“Having drunk much, eaten much, and talked a lot of shit about people, here lie I, Timocreon of Rhodes.”.#Simonides
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Achilles kills Patroklos.
The Iliad is so much more fun when you don't have some rando in your replies telling you Hector is bad because he killed Patroclus.
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“Oh humanity! You pointlessly fuck up so often!”. ὦ πόλλ᾽ ἁμαρτάνοντες ἄνθρωποι μάτην #Euripides.
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Iphigenia at Aulis.
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It happened. At a family wedding. A cousin's spouse found out I was a professor of Classics. I got to hear an hour of Rome as empire in decline just like the US.
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Unpopular opinion: the best thing young people can do early in their careers is to follow the auguries of twin doves, discover and enter the sacred grove, and kill the aging priest who guards it, claiming the golden bough.
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Spouse spilled catnip on the floor. 10 minutes ago Hermes was trying to eat the dishwasher. Now he has retired to the empire of his mind, perhaps imagining what it is like to be a bat.
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Oh my god, I have *literally* dreamt of this moment.
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Hard to account for Shakespeare’s unpopularity among high school students in light of gems like this.
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Βρεκεκεκεξ κοαξ κοαξ,.βρεκεκεκεξ κοαξ κοαξ. Βρεκεκεκεξ κοαξ κοαξ,.βρεκεκεκεξ κοαξ κοαξ. Βρεκεκεκεξ κοαξ κοαξ,.βρεκεκεκεξ κοαξ κοαξ.
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Because fascists love naked displays of violence and power, even when they are too obtuse to see their implicit critiques?
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Join us next week for "no, the Trojan war isn't really a historical event" and "yes, there are some historical insights in myth, but the Trojan war is still fantasy".
prepping for each new cycle of response to Nolan's Odyssey film in production
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Most reprehensible thing I have seen on a place of worship in the Boston area
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Florence has a lot of sculptures, but none of them rival this:
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"Goddess, Sing the rage of Pelian Achilles, for $7.99 a month".
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Saying frozen 2 is better than frozen is like saying the Odyssey is better than the iliad. 1. One can't exist without another .2. Each appeals to different life stages.3. You can change your mind. Signed, a Homerist who has seen Frozen 100 times and cried at Frozen 2.
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Son (12) just asked me if Shakespeare's to be or not to be should be translated with Spanish estar or ser and now my brain hurts.
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prepping for each new cycle of response to Nolan's Odyssey film in production
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How are you supposed to teach Latin when the old Learning Management System censors every instance of “cum”?.
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“States fail when they cannot distinguish fools from serious men”. τότ’ ἔφη τὰς πόλεις ἀπόλλυσθαι, ὅταν μὴ δύνωνται τοὺς φαύλους ἀπὸ τῶν σπουδαίων διακρίνειν. #Antisthenes.#US #UK.
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2020 is starting to make me think that maybe strange women lying in ponds distributing swords may be worth a try for a more stable form of government.
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So, um. US:. 1. Lockdown 8 weeks. No classes. 2. Send everyone universal income checks.3. Clear vaccines for kids.4. Create free mobile vaccine units.5. Re-open when majority of kids are vaccinated . Print the money to do it. We are going to pay more in life and loss if we don't.
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"If the discipline of classics is to survive. it cannot be through alliance. with men like Rufo and Musk, whose actual knowledge of our field is superficial and who only pretend to care about it insofar. to advance their own agenda in the culture war".
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"Odysseus is not a historical person". Friends, I respectfully submit that a thing's positive historicity, factuality, or 'realness' is less important than the impact of the idea of a thing.
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I just found my son (9) crying in a pillow fort. When I asked him what was wrong he said, "what if we all get sick or something--who will take care of Layla? she can't even eat on her own yet". I hugged him and he kept crying and. if anyone needs me I'll be in a pillow fort.
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Homer, I see your wine-dark sea and I raise you a.
The streets of Levira, Portugal were flooded with red wine after a distillery’s 2.2 million liter tanks burst.
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Diomedes and Glaukos in Iliad 6.
Steve Tomasin of the U.S. and Rodrigo Isgro of Argentina swap shorts after their Rugby Sevens match at the #Paris2024 Olympics. @reuterssport #olympics #paris #reuters #reuterssport #rugby
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Looking for images to go with a post about farting, I found this bull farting sculpture by Chen Wenling, clearly the pinnacle of human achievement.
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Boon: a blessing, advantage.Boondoggle: a fiasco which at first seems like a boon. Can we just start using -doggle as a suffix to describe good seeming things that turn out bad?. Giftdoggle.Puppydoggle.Last night's sexdoggle. Etc etc.
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“Socrates, when asked what is sweetest in life, said “education, virtue, and the investigation of the unknown”. Σωκράτης ὁ φιλόσοφος ἐρωτηθεὶς τί ἥδιστον ἐν τῷ βίῳ εἶπε· „παιδεία καὶ ἀρετὴ καὶ ἱστορία τῶν ἀγνοουμένων”. #GnomVat.
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Question for English teachers and composition teachers at all levels:. If you are teaching students not to ever write in the first person, why? . This lesson generates some pretty wretched prose and thoroughly traumatized writers.
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Has anyone tried to scam the crypto community with the Voynich manuscript yet?.
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Just a Girl: Being Briseis . I received this essay to post anonymously yesterday and I can't stop thinking about it. about how many times I've read and taught the epic insensitively, about how the bodies we inhabit or the lives we live change the poem.
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The Homeric texts we possess should be dated centuries later than most popular theories.
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Odyssey discourse taking many turns just when many people are returning home after a long interval is totally on brand.
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"Hips don't lie" is actually a riffing on presocratic relativism, an attack against mind-body dualism. In this essay I will. ".
I just graduated from my 4 week Ancient Philosophy course with the University of Pennsylvania (@Penn). I know. my hobbies are very impractical, but it took a lot of hours after the kids were asleep. Thank you Plato and predecessors for all the "fun" over the past month!
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Them: what do you teach?. Me: Ancient Greek. Them [every time]: it's all greek to me!. Me: [dead souled stare of Achilles over patroclus' tomb] yeah. [We never talk again].
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#WorldsNotAuthors. My children are secretly making holiday gifts for each other. I walked into the office and found my daughter writing a Hogwarts acceptance letter for her brother, because he wants magic to be real. 1/
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After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.
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This crisis becomes simultaneously stupider and more horrifying every day, but nothing could be more stupid and more horrifying than Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, who is now claiming that "there are more important things than living." #GOPDeathCult.
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"If we want young people to act like odysseus". 1. Lose 12 ships of men. 2. Cey on the beach for 7 years. 3. Kill 108 people qt home. 4. Let son hang enslaved women. 5. Get ready for war with own people. 6. Go traveling until meeting people who mistake an oar for a windowing fan.
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#PSA. M-M: Hyphen (-), to make compounds. M–M: En-dash (–), to separate spans of numbers (i.e. 1–9). M—M: Em-dash (—), to separate ideas instead of using parenthesis. Seducer of authors; scourge of copyeditors. Eminem: Rapper, recent collaborator with Ed Sheeran.
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Son (12) got in minor trouble in school for clicking his pen too much. He and a friend learned Morse code and have been communicating across the classroom. Can't really get upset.
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Just when I thought I was going to take a break there's more. just a reminder: Odysseus suffered because he blinded the cyclops and boasted; his men died because of this; the suitors showed up at his home because of it
Ok, one more thread on Achilles and Odysseus and how we should read Homer then I promise I will chill. The reason I am profoundly unchill about this is the confusion of rich epic narrative for simple paradigmatic propaganda.
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I am %100 sure that local, free libraries made my life as it is today possible. Give me a RT or response if that is your story too. #.
This is insane super-capitalism gone wild. Local libraries are a great tradition without which many would have no access to literature, news, information and more. Amazon Should Replace Local Libraries to Save Taxpayers Money via @forbes
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So, like this is definitely 10 mg, right?.
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How did it *just* occur to me that the word ‘ramification’ is from ramus (branch) and facere (to make)?. I know that I am not the only for whom obvious classical etymologies for English words suddenly become clear. What ancient etymologies escaped your notice for a long time?.
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Not prefering the Iliad or the odyssey but a secret third thing.
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A little more: Odysseus is not a "hero" or anti-hero. Those terms are anachronistic. He is a "man" (andra) at the beginning of the epic, apoem thematically part of exploring the END of the race of heroes . Audiences are supposed to think about how he fucked up his life.
So I know a little about Homer. But that doesn't mean I know everything. But ancient Greek epic was dialogic, engaging with audiences to create dynamic meaning, to challenge thought, to provide vehicles for difficult questions. The Odyssey was/is not about emulation.
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Happy Birthday to anyone celebrating today, but especially to Hermes. He's 2 years old!
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Just unintentionally wrote "The Iliad promises to be all the rage this year" and if that pun's not peak Homer dad I don't know what is.
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An Ocean's 11 style heist of the century film where a rogue's gallery of archaeologists and activists infiltrate the British Museum and repatriate the Parthenon sculptures. #creativeAct.
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People who claim that Odysseus is one thing (a moral hero, ha!) or Achilles is one thing (a man of honor!) are laboring under the idea that epic offers simple paradigmatic lessons.
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I committed the unpardonable offense of offering blueberry yogurt when strawberry was desired.
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Following up on @SarahEBond's tweet: a list of reasons why Campbell's monomyth is problematic. 7 themes.
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If you have any doubt about AJ's fundamental politics, look no closer than their choice to make hiring a diversity and inclusion officer an April fool's joke. Classy classicists here.
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For an open forum of Classics to single out a scholar by name when the operators of the account cower behind anonymity proves both how unserious their mission is and how deeply they are afraid to own it
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They listened to episodes and then later read passages. It would have been rare to experience either epic from beginning to end.
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The reason Miltiades' strategy was so effective at Marathon is that it kept the Persians separated from the airports.
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My goal in interacting with this account is to show our colleagues who think any attention to the classics is good attention and who legitimize such accounts by engaging with them know their motivations and beliefs. Classics has a legacy of being a handmaiden to hate.
Unlike you, I openly tell people exactly what I stand for:. Western civilisation and tradition. It's all written in the bio, you clown. I know that openly stating one's values is beyond your comprehension. Also, I'm Roman Catholic, so expect the occasional DEVS VVLT.
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Friends. I did not argue. I just listened. And drank.
It happened. At a family wedding. A cousin's spouse found out I was a professor of Classics. I got to hear an hour of Rome as empire in decline just like the US.
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not to say rage isn't significant! ancient scholars had questions:.
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3.This makes what we do with Homer absolutely anachronistic and weird. It also makes it really hard for modern students (and non-students) to get through the epics.
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“Pythagoras confined himself in an underground hole and told his mother to tell people that he had died.”. ἤδη γὰρ εἶδον πολλάκις Πυθαγόρας καθείρξας ἑαυτὸν ἐν ὑπογείῳ λογοποιεῖν ἐκέλευσε τὴν μητέρα ὡς ἄρα τεθνηκὼς εἴη #ScholiontoSophocles.#FridayFeelings.
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Homeric poetry is like a philosophical dialogue, a tragedy, or a piece of visual art: it invites audiences to explore its narrative through their experiences, and to compare their experiences to epic.
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