ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay – 9 October #Ovid “quid iuvat in nudis hamata retundere tela ossibus? ossa mihi nuda relinquit amor. tot sine amore viri, tot sunt sine amore puellae!— hinc tibi cum magna laude triumphus eat. Roma, nisi inmensum vires promosset in orbem,...

talibus Aeneas ardentem et torua tuentem lenibat dictis animum lacrimasque ciebat. (Aen. 6.467-8) We're up to Aeneid 6 in our group, and this is yet another line that makes one reflect on the impossibility of "accurate" translation...

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system. Thread below ⬇️

This thread highlights a point I have been making for many years: the logic of authoritarianism and the logic of domestic abuse are exactly the same. It is only a difference of scale.

Required my juniors to use em-dashes and semicolons—which I taught them how to use last week—in an in-class essay today. They were showing each other their em-dashes and semicolons; monsters officially created.

The remains of Cairn Holy II - one of two Neolithic chambered cairns which overlook Wigtown Bay in Dumfries & Galloway. The Clyde-type chambered cairn was traditionally thought to be the tomb of Caldus, the mythical Scottish King. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #CairnHoly

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION. "Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE. Fuck you - fuck you again.

Still not doing the Thing, but I can't stand it - no Erictho has come across my timeline today, unarguably the baddest-ass sorceress in ancient Lit. No art translations today, so English from www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/... Lucan is the GOAT for over the top hexameter 😍

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Call For Papers: Teaching With Ovid. Any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom, for a 2-day symposium on 12-13 June 2026. Classicist teaching Ovid? Medievalist teaching the Ovide moralise? Librarian/archivist with historic copies of Ovid to share? Take a look: shorturl.at/RiviU Deadline 16 Jan.

‘The Magic Circle’ 1886 by John William Waterhouse is our pick for φαρμακίς ‘witch, sorceress’ #ClassicsTober25 This painting captures the power and potential of harnessing a knowledge of nature to achieve certain ends. Could this be Medea, Circe or yet another powerful ancient figure? #Witch

Reading a cfp these days is like ‘ohhhh that’s interesting… oh no, it’s in America’ *delete*

hey, if I know you personally and you feel like seeing me chat with some very cool academics about my PhD thesis in Antwerp, followed by me buying you beer, save December 5th. obviously this is more difficult for my Australian gang, soz 😞

Instead of playing video games, like an idiot I spent my weekend trying out some new-ish Latin parsers. latinCy is pretty impressive, and does a great job for short sentences. It's also easy to integrate into a Python ecosystem and style so it looks great...

Virtual Jesus tensors to predict your prayers a vector who cares

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Keats: simp for the urn, would never actually make a pass Blake: one night stands the urn, writes a poem about how it was a sin Byron: absolutely fucks the urn, marries it, fights a war to install it as the princeps of an independent Greece dilettantearmy.com/articles/joh...

I can never read "still unravish'd bride of quietness" in the same way, now and I am not sure if this is hilarious or appalling

For Day 1 & 2 of #Classicstober #Classicstober25 Hypnos & Thanatos I’m sharing one of my favorite vessels, the Euphronios krater (c. 515 BCE) depicting the death of Sarpedon in the Ilaid. “…then send Death and gentle Sleep to take him to his spacious Lycian homeland…” (16.578-579 Wilson trans.)

oh sorry! I wasn't clear - when I said I am "totally overwhelmed with tasks and stressed out" I meant that in the Academic sense. Yes, obviously I will accept this interesting peer review request. 💀

I am *not* doing the Thing, but here's the house of Somnus (=Hypnos) from Ovid Met. 11.608 "Doors, lest strident hinges squeal, in all the house are none; no guard at the threshold, only, in the middle of the hall, an ebony couch raised high - feathery, black, and swathed in dusky sheets...

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

I've decided to try #ClassicsTober to try to get back into the swing of things. We'll see how long I can keep it up 😅 Day 1: Hypnos Reference from @1kwordsartandphoto.bsky.social #ClassicsTober25

Was asked about collinearity again, so here's Vahove's 2019 post on why it isn't a problem that needs a solution. Design the model(s) to answer a formal question and free your mind janhove.github.io/posts/2019-0...

Sing, O Muse! Chthonic Visions is officially here! Featuring 38 amazing artists depicting figures from the spookier side of Greek mythology. You can obtain a digital copy for free or, for a limited time, a print copy through the link in our bio!

Today in my @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social LIS class, 2,000 years of Latin Paleography in three hours! LFG!

Clearly I have disappointed the Messapian vase, as I disappoint everyone 😪

This is REAL CLASSICS done by REAL CLASSICISTS. Look what they have been demanding your respect for all this time. "Hello I would like 'et plus Cd K Mi Ob Pd Pe Q Vcul] at plus Cdul: hac plus Pdul: ha' poetry, please?" They have played us for absolute fools.

Timeline cleanse! An #Egyptian figurine of a Hippo (with bulgy eyes 👀), made 5,000 years ago from calcite. Hippopotami were associated with life, regeneration, and rebirth. On display at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Have a wonderful Sunday 🦛🦛🦛 📷 me 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

Gonna write a Charles Bukowski poem. I call it "los angeles winter." whiskey, good women bad but maybe it's the other way around

I guess (reflecting on the Aeneid) it is always shocking to me how much ancient Latin poetry about love just shoots a taser into my heart across 2000 years, but stuff about honour and duty and whatever is complicated and weird so that's what all the papers are about

On Monday, I will share a small discovery concerning the Jenaer Martyrologium with you. Do hope that the announcement will make some of you already curious! martyrologium.editionenportal.de/martyrologium

(I snark, but genuinely interested in this)

I disagree with a lot of specifics, here, but it's a good read. It's certainly true that a surface reading of Aeneas as a fanfic hero is baby-level analysis.

have you seen the new python package? it's on pypi. you can literally install it with pip. set up a venv. grab it with poetry. you just use rye. run it with pipx. you can install it with uv. install uv right now. go to uv. dive into uv. you can uv it. it's on uv. uv has it for you. uv has it for you

written hand goals 😻

Back in Kraków, back to the local market! This week's stew is duck (carcass for stock and two legs), two kinds of wild mushrooms, hazelnuts, smoked pork cheek, and new potatoes. Not going to do a full thread, but I am very excited to finally get my duck-and-wild-mushrooms on 🤤

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

happy autumnal equinox! may gorgo, mormo, the thousand faced moon find your sacrifices pleasing!

That magical moment when the pumice is gently cleared away revealing, for the first time in nearly 2000 years, a white mosaic. #MosaicMonday #Pompeii

Tibullus was the weirdest little freak (complimentary) of the Augustan elegists, and I weep for him too 😪

I have liked the MQDQ project for many years, it's an amazing collection of Latin verse with good tools. I like it even more as of today.

I wanted to find a way to say this as if I were mature and my feelings were not hurt, but.. I think that defeats the purpose? I just had a negative CHR review that is high-handed, sarcastic, unhelpful, factually wrong in places, and, in general, useless to me. [...]

Tell me you are an ancient mosaicist who has never depicted breasts without telling me.

Nice one @theguardian.com front page & Carol Ann Duffy ❤️. 

All knowledge: even necromancy comes under the outstretched arms of Philosophy BL Add 30024; Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Tresor; 1260-1299 CE; France, S.; f.1v

Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris (Tac. Agr. 42) "it is human nature to hate whom you have hurt" I think about this quote pretty much every time I read the news these days; mostly because I don't understand it at all, and yet it is clearly true

Crystallised something for me about the cowardice of bigots. The reason they blame the powerless is because it satisfies their anger without requiring them to risk the harm that comes with challenging power. Those on the march last Sat felt strong & elated; went home with no fear or worry