seems a bit off but okay

currently going through my own draft and trying to straighten out where I talk about 'Athene' vs where I talk about 'Athena'. choices were made.

nothing like googling "how much meat in a cow" to make me feel like I'm doing real classical philology

it's actually a manifesto for vegetarianism

changing all the journal titles to their abbreviations in the bibliography section of my conference handout to show that I'm in on the gatekeeping

it's that time of year again: JSTOR wrapped, my top five reads of the year on @jstor.bsky.social

aside from "classics? what, like Shakespeare?" the worst I've gotten on saying I study/teach ancient Greek and Latin literature is definitely "do you think Jesus was real?" historical Jesus is not generally a can of worms I want to open with an Uber driver.

since we're coming up on that time of the year again www.redbubble.com/i/sweatshirt...

Historians Admit To Inventing Ancient Greeks https://theonion.com/historians-admit-to-inventing-ancient-greeks-1819571808/

ah yes the familiar ritual of adding some early 20th century German stuff to my bibliography as the source of some idea or other in classical scholarship and then combing through the internet to figure out what this scholar was doing in the years 1939-1945...

this week I finished knitting a sweater that I started in spring 2023, so honestly three years seems like a pretty reasonable time frame for Penelope to be weaving a shroud

since we're coming up on that time of the year again www.redbubble.com/i/sweatshirt...

I think for my 8 am Tereus paper I need the screeching whistle sound from the Sweeney Todd cast album

gnocchi seauton

talking about "the turn of the century" and I mean the late 400s and early 300s BCE

LIVE - Classicist reacts to BMCR Books Received list for October

in what follows i will reinvent the wheel

a periodic illustration of what I mean by "rhapsode in the most literal sense" (ῥάπτω+ἀοιδή)

once again watching videos of bird noises for research purposes, desperately trying to hear the acoustic similarity to the aulos

Fall is approaching which means it's almost time to read "The Pumpkinspiceification of the Divine Claudius."

I figure this image should come in handy

You want me to roll out the red carpet? The thing that killed Agamemnon?

underrated implication of the recognition tokens in the Libation Bearers is that Orestes and Electra don’t just have the same hair, they both have their MOTHER’S hair

standing and staring at the artifacts in the museum for so long that the motion-sensor lights go off and it's just you in the dark with the iron-age coinage

neither iota subscript nor iota adscript but a secret third thing

I would ask who the market is for the €1800 cithara in the museum shop but I know. it’s me. I am the target market for that.

ah the good old days when scholarly monographs could be 50 pages long

desperately searching for a contemporary adaptation of the Oresteia that's brave enough to include Apollo's theory of reproduction

I try not too read to much into accidents of textual survival, but it's so great that the first extant Greek tragedy involves a man coming out of the grave and the last involves a man walking directly into it

'new evidence' and it's just Plato

this chapter on the Oresteia and the interplay of double-casting and the cyclicality of revenge can have a little Dionysus-dressed-as-Heracles-in-the-Frogs. as a treat.

Indiana Jones and Putting Up a Small Plaque Acknowledging "Controversial by Modern Standards" Acquisition

I genuinely love how Sophocles keeps sneaking into works that are purportedly based only on Aeschylus

a little concerning how there's a copy of Parable of the Sower sitting in my block's little free library alongside the end-of-year drop of textbooks and MCAT prep books, as if it's equally instructive

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I inquired unto Urim and the Thummim and found that my own son Jonathan was he who breached the oath to refrain from food until nightfall

working on something about two Oresteia adaptations that use different spellings of names has me SO close to writing a sentence like "both Electra and Elektra try to grab hold of their respective fathers as those actors transition into other roles"

if I'm asking myself "how has nobody written about this" the possibilities are either 1) it's so painfully obvious nobody needed to or 2) I've fully rewired my brain by thinking too much about actors and role distribution and no longer know what's obvious. or 3) some German guy in 1922 actually did.

yeah it's going to take me a while to get used to having a grad-school to-do list that's just "write chapter 1"

Homeric hero impugning the manhood of a guy who stands back and just fires arrows: 'This is toxotēs masculinity'

I'm SO tempted to sidestep the whole issue of ‘Oedipus Rex’ vs. 'Oedipus Tyrannus’ vs. 'Oedipus the King’ by just referring to Sophocles’ two plays 'Oedipus’ and 'Oedipus at Colonus’

me: I've made a device that stops you scrolling. you save hours out of your day venture capitalist: what's it called me: the codex

"is this literal or metaphorical?" yes. next question.

pulled up my working document and remembered that this is currently the official draft version of chapter 1 section 1 in its entirety

New Pope Declares All Style Manuals Other Than Chicago As Schismatic

would LOVE to see a performance of the Oresteia that makes the exodos of the Eumenides a sing-along with the chorus of propompoi teaching the song to the audience...

I always forget how much of Housman's Fragment of a Greek Tragedy is just lifted verbatim from the Agamemnon

three down, thirteen to go. I might even finish it this year.