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?...

I've never had #merch before, but here goes! You can get your #Homer Hotline t-shirts and other gear at the link below. The first $1500 of the proceeds goes to paying our editorial and graphics team, and further funds will be for #podcast #production! Enjoy! www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8815...

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

International Journal of the Classical Tradition Vol. 33, No. 1 (2026) link.springer.com/journal/1213... @facundobey.bsky.social

Thank you for joining us, @sentantiq.bsky.social!

In Episode 3 of The #Homer Hotline, we are joined by Prof. Joel Christensen in New York City, who is Provost & Senior Vice President (Academic) at the Graduate Center, CUNY. We talk about #nature & oral #poetry, with an excursus into #medicine & its influence on #Classics. youtu.be/C30uIXBuVZo?...

BREAKING Charles Kushner, the US Ambassador to France, has been banned from meeting with members of the French government after he failed to show up to a diplomatic summons with the French Foreign Minister.

LOL

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"Einstein!" is not the compliment you think it is.

In Episode 4 of The Homer Hotline, we chat with Prof. Monica Cyrino from the University of New Mexico about the reception of #Homer in #film, Nolan's new #Odyssey, and I reveal that I'd try to get Peaches @peachestv.bsky.social if I were casting #Aphrodite. youtu.be/bu74gjvWRwM?...

In Episode 5 of The #Homer Hotline, we are joined by Dr. Hristomir S. Hristov, Curator of Classical #Archaeology and the Ancient Near East at the Archaeological #Museum Frankfurt in Germany. We discuss magical creatures in the Greek/Near Eastern interface. Please enjoy! youtu.be/6FBXBpFCGwo?...

In Episode 6 of The Homer Hotline, I am joined by Professor Helen Lovatt @helenlovatt.bsky.social of the University of Nottingham for a discussion of epic athletics, folkloristics, liminality, and disability studies in Classics. Please enjoy! youtu.be/9QffBF4KxwU?...

Trump claiming that he is exonerated by the Epstein files must be part of a plan of redaction and cover-up: first the DOJ slow-walks, redacts and suppresses, then Trump starts making his cliams, just as he did w his collusion with Russia, and the two impeachments. Do not let him get away with it.

The Homer Hotline Episode 2: My interview with Thomas G. Palaima, Professor Emeritus at University of Texas at Austin and MacArthur Fellow, in which we discuss the relevance of Linear B to the Homeric poems with an excursus on Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. youtu.be/_aR2FoPGKLs?...

Greetings, #podcast fans! At 9 AM Mountain Time on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, The #Homer Hotline debuts! Please enjoy these interviews with scholars of ancient #epic, its reception by later artists, and the #history and #art of ancient Greece. #Canada #MadeInCanada www.youtube.com/@HomerHotline

Good morning, @carlosfnorena.bsky.social ! Please share. The Homer Hotline is now available! ***** On Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, The #Homer Hotline debuts! Please enjoy these interviews with scholars of ancient epic and the history and art of ancient Greece! www.youtube.com/@HomerHotline

Historical literacy and its importance in fantasy writing (and reading)

Greetings, #podcast fans! At 9 AM Mountain Time on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, The #Homer Hotline debuts! Please enjoy these interviews with scholars of ancient #epic, its reception by later artists, and the #history and #art of ancient Greece. #Canada #MadeInCanada www.youtube.com/@HomerHotline

Ever just need a really long list of Latin words, like for a puzzle or spellcheck etc.—here’s verba.txt, something like the Unix word list for Latin, ~134K words from online collections with filters for min count inter alia… github.com/diyclassics/...

My reflection on the life of the Rev. Jesse Jackson (1941-2026). #JesseJackson #BlackHistoryMonth kevinsolez.ca/updates-and-...

Nazis are back

"Colorado coloring book" is good, but someone on Reddit called it "Valhalla season." I just cannot.

"Homeric poetry builds itself out of repetitive structures that are formed in part through performance and audience reception/response. Such intricate meanings are ...a collaboration in a dynamic context where composer and audience unfold the story together." sententiaeantiquae.com/2026/02/16/a...

Beautiful view of the Mediterranean

This rules. I love how delighted they all look!