Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫

I was thinking about music, but sport is an equally helpful analogy. Need to train, avoid injury, build stamina, warm up and warm down. We don’t do any of this (to my knowledge) which may be one of the reasons mental health is under so much pressure. Academia as performance discipline.

Ça promet!

Everything is very stupid, Thucydides edition, peer-reviewed version. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

DAWN OF THE DEAD (Anagram-Haiku) Woodland: The day breaks. Another dead body walks and wreaks bloody death.

Now I've heard there was a dreadful post That when it's read man it sucks the most But you don't really care for posting, do ya? It goes like this, log off you tit The dreadful dork, the major grift The baffled posters saying "Please touch grass, mate" Please touch grass mate Please touch grass mate

Sing the rage, Nuclear Phone,

huh weird, did republicans make some kind of colossal historic fuckup in the past few weeks? polymarket.com/event/which-...

Hello. Been away. Here’s a near perfectly preserved shield (or hoplon) found at Olympia in Greece. If you zoom in, you’ll see little holes in the rim used to tie on a leather cover. It was probably dedicated as a gift to Zeus. 🏛️ Hellenic Museum, Melbourne 🕰️ c 500 BC

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These days, every day feels like Friday the 13th.

Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺

Read @nevillemorley.eurosky.social !

The Delphic Oracle spoke: “If you launch this war, you will destroy a great empire and enemy of world peace, and your name will be remembered for millennia.”

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They couldn’t have found a better example of the profound lack of understanding these machines and their promoters have of language, literature, and human communication styles if they had been trying to discredit AI!

LOL...they did their best.

Here is a report of some exploratory work transforming a traditional Greek textbook (Crosby and Schaeffer) into something truly digital. sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...

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I've admired @kevinsolez.bsky.social since he contributed expertise on Homer to Pharos when we were writing about the casting of David Gyasi to play Achilles. He's now hosting expert guests, including @sentantiq.bsky.social, at his "Homer Hotline" on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C30u...

Thank you, Curtis!

WORD FACT Greek “dramein” (“to run”) and the related noun “dromos” (“running, racecourse”) ultimately give us: Hippodrome → A racecourse for chariots (“Hippo-” = horse) Dromedary → via Greek “dromas kamelos” (“running camel”) and Late Latin “dromedarius” [1/2]

Mysteriously all the Epstein news seems to have quieted down. Ditto ICE domestic terror. And replaced with gross loss of lives and global destabilization. 😖🤬

Hell. Hell is where you go.

Perhaps it’s the time of the morning, but Radio 4 Today seems quite obscenely cheerful and upbeat about the war - they’re having a whale of a time, especially the presenter who’s gone to Tel Aviv for a bit of a thrill. Utterly unserious.

Thank you, @charlaynvonsolms.com !!! The Catalogue of Shapes! I love it!

I mean...LOL. Keep withholding the funding; it appears to be working.

Is it a bit on the nose, @sentantiq.bsky.social, as if they called it "The Persian Wars"?

Operation Epic Fury. A reminder, a certain epic hero's rage sent countless of his own people to their deaths.

In 2007, Trent Reznor was four years too early with the events he wrote about in Year Zero, which he set in an imagined 2022. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qSsR...

I mean, the Americans couldn't be more on the nose with their Classical references even if they had called the operation "The Persian Wars."

Breaking News: American "Department of War" invokes Iliad 1.1 with its moniker "Epic Fury." In fact, it reprises the very first word of the epic for the name of its Iran operation.

In the face of "Epic Fury," I offer you Epic Joy. youtube.com/@homerhotlin...

This is a first for me. I was recently interviewed by one of my heroes in #Homeric studies, Prof. Donna F. Wilson. We talked about the #anthropology of the ancient #Mediterranean world and my academic trajectory from @ualberta.bsky.social to @jhu.edu to UBC. Please enjoy! youtu.be/WCzgIdjBvRw?...

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity / Isabelle Torrance (ed) www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... #openaccess @clic-erc.bsky.social @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @daireach.bsky.social @pomuirch.bsky.social @ciaranruaoneill.bsky.social @kironward.bsky.social

94 entries into my spreadsheet of Homer quotations in Pollux and I FINALLY found something from one of the Homeric Hymns! I have been waiting for this moment (can I give up for the day now?)

re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

LOL

Today marks one week since Season 1 of The Homer Hotline was released. I draw your attention to Episode 1, the interview with my dear friend Prof. Andrew McClellan of San Diego State University. Please enjoy this interview, and thank you, Andy! From Musqueam with love ~K youtu.be/Cvp6bdgY1no?...

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Learn more about The #Homer Hotline host Kevin Solez in this interview with Prof. Donna F. Wilson, author of _Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the #Iliad_ and one of our heroes in Homeric studies. youtu.be/WCzgIdjBvRw?... In other news, we now have merch! www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8815...

"Holy shit, did WE ever make the right decision" - The US Women's Hockey Team

Greeks seeing Philip II's horse win in the Olympics in 356: "Man, I miss when the Olympics were apolitical."

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

I see one of his monographs under construction is on Homeric metaphor and cognitive poetics, which combines two topics I've been reading up on for a while. I hope it comes out soon. Would love to read it.

The idiom "oak and stone" means 'going back to the beginning' in context (that is my own, very well informed opinion), and the West Semitic connections are really interesting!

It is starting to feel like a toss-up whether I’ll get to retirement age while there is still a viable university system with humanities departments from which to retire…

#Poem in honour of #ProudlyHuman Day _All That Is Human_ I’ve taken to rudeness— You can have art or you can have morally pure artists, but never both— because all that is human is in the bejewelèd boxes in the little grey curio cabinets in the ichor at birth. 1/n #poetry