Asst. Prof. @ClassicsUC | Greek drama and music | stage plays, make films, program in python, mother of two. (She/her)
Joined April 2020
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A thousand students, faculty, and community members protesting SB 1 at the Statehouse. #StopSB1
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I think Elon is unhappy that Wikipedia is not for sale. I hope his campaign to defund us results in lots of donations from people who care about the truth. If Elon wanted to help, he'd be encouraging kind and thoughtful intellectual people he agrees with to engage.
donate.wikimedia.org/
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Big news: in March, I will start the project Corpus Liberatum Linguae Graecae which aims to complement the available work in Perseus and the Patristik Text Arkiv in order to help researcher have free access to Ancient Greek Texts. 2 job openings
#DH #DigiClass #NLP 1/3
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HOW TO DRAW A PYRAMID
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Now one zag.
Gaze now on Giza!
#palindrome
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How did people describe the brain before computer metaphors? Charles S. Sherrington in 1942 called it "that enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern."
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The Old City of Sanaa in Yemen is one of the oldest cities in the world, continuously inhabited for more than 2500 years. Meaning 'fortified palace', the city is a work of art in itself, & remains one of the greatest treasures of Arabia
A thread on the Old City of Sanaa…
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I may be biased but this is perhaps the best AAH CfP every... classics.uc.edu/departments/…
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New Euripides fragments from professors at @CUClassics, this is a big deal! colorado.edu/asmagazine/2024…
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The WCC Pre-PhD Paper Presentation goes to Allie Pohler of the University of Cincinnati (@alliemeelyn) for her presentation, "Disperii, perii misera! Listening to Antiphila in Terence’s Heautontimorumenos," at CAMWS!
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after a hiatus to get another masters, @theoctopiehole is back to discuss the delightful and dazzling trilogies and tetralogies of Euripides--rarely considered cohesive pieces by scholars--in order to meditate on survival strategies in a perilous future:
medium.com/corona-borealis/c…
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Happy Birthday, dDAGM! 🙂 📜🎶
To mark the occasion, a new version of the app is now available on @eMousike – dDAGM 2.0!
emousike.com/ddagm
As you will see, the app is much more interactive...
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FUN FACT FOR YOUR SATURDAY (best etymology story I have heard in a long time):
In the early 20th century when the prefix "nano-" first appeared, it was spelled "nanno-" because it came from the Greek word for dwarf (which is actually spelled νᾶνος with one ν but...
I’m delighted to see this in print — and very grateful to Tim for including me. If you read my piece (on the music of Sophocles’ Trachiniae), please let me know what you think, since it’s part of an ongoing project.
New issue of Arethusa Vol. 57, No. 1 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/52403 @projectMUSE @JHUPress Musical Structure in Greek Tragedy
ALT journal cover
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Students at @Columbia are having lots of last-minute conversations in anticipation of NYPD descending on their school to forcibly clear out a non-violent protest against genocide.
Easily 300 students here, bracing to repeat an ugly history.
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Opening matinee of @ClassicsUvm's "Tantalids" was a smash! So incredibly proud of how much work that everyone has put in to create such a vividly fantastic piece of performance art. I feel so incredibly privileged and blessed to get to work with such talented artists.
ALT Cast of UVM's Tantalids
ALT Silly cast photo of UVM's Tantalids
These images take me back to many a lovely afternoon sitting with friends.
Syria is the soul of the Arab world & is nicknamed paradise on earth. One of the oldest civilizations in the world, it is a region rich in history & culture. A famous feature of Syria is the traditional architecture of its courtyard homes.
A thread on courtyard homes in Syria…
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