Professor of Classics at Carleton College; I work on performance of drama in Athens and Rome; I love skiing, walking, whisky. So far I’m sticking with X…
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Hey folks -- my article on @kamilashamsie's Home Fire has just been published in Classical Receptions Journal! I'm excited as it's my first foray into reception stuff. You can find it here academic.oup.com/crj/advance… if you subscribe; if you don't and want to read it DM me!
Unsurprisingly I love this idea. Have been pushing it for faculty governance for a while now but no takers even at a tiny scale! wapo.st/3YQbKKc
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Exciting new method of grading Latin mid-terms just dropped: I have arranged them in ascending order of legibility. Why did I not think of this years ago
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I love this so much -- had never heard this story
The ancient Greek proverb "He must be either dead or teaching school" (Ἤτοι τέθνηκεν ἢ διδάσκει γράμματα) in Latin Aut mortuus est aut docet litteras goes back to the Athenian general Nicias' failed campaign in Sicily during the Peloponnesian War as recorded in Erasmus' Adagia:
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It's midnight in Georgia...the moment we've been waiting for!
Jimmy Carter is now officially 100 years old!! 🥳
Happy birthday, Mr. President!!! 🎂 @CarterCenter
This is the best Carleton story I'd never heard about washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…
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Net Favorable Opinion Of:
Ancient Athens: +44%
Roman Empire: +30%
Ancient Sparta: +23%
Roman Republican: +26%
Carthage: +13%
Holy Roman Empire: +7%
Persian Empire: +1%
Visigoths: -7%
Huns: -29%
YouGov / June 6, 2024 / n=2205
TIL Smyth identifies something called the "plural of modesty" for when people refer to themselves in the plural (often in tragedy). WTF?? What is "modest" about this?? People just do that all the time in tragedy!
Also it is funny that two sections earlier you have the "plural of majesty" lol make up your mind
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Fragments of Previously ‘Lost’ Euripides Tragedies Have Been Translated - news.artnet.com/art-world/eu…
This whole thread (on “the whole point of the post menopausal female”) is great but I especially loved this line
In creepworld, men are bold adventurers looking for sex and family, which are natural human connections they seem to view as video game achievements to be bestowed upon them if they enter the proper cheat code.
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Jealous of all the back-to-school shoppers who just got home and have all their stuff carefully laid out on the floor.
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