Dr. Jeremy Swist

Wikipedia entry “Please clap”, a phrase used by Jeb Bush while campaigning in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries.

I’m a day late but whatever. Happy 10 year anniversary to this:

@roelkonijn.bsky.social @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

Modern illustration of a Greek hoplite fully armed with shield, spear, helmet, breastplate, and greaves.

Question for ancient Greek military historians from me and my students. We keep noticing in modern illustrations of hoplites these tassels on the inside of their shields. Was this an actual thing, and if so, what function did they serve?

Julius Caesar’s statue in the temple of Mars Ultor.

A very small Katherine in a red cardigan stands in front of a modern podium and computer. In the background is her slide on curse tablets projected on a double screen. Included is an image of a curse tablet from the Ashmolean Museum.

The juxtaposition of a tiny Katherine against a large lecture theatre is very fun.

I hate to inform everyone, but Helen wasn’t a real person, but fictional. She can look like whatever anyone retelling the story wants her to look like.

In the Libation Bearers, Clytemnestra has a dream that she gives birth to a snake. Has anyone ever argued that the snake is herself?

Philippomancy!

Or of one particular groundhog…

CFP for the Digital Classics Association panel at SCS2027 in Boston next January now up on the SCS site—

"Experimental Contexts for Digital Classics"

Submit your abstracts by February 20

classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...

#digiclass

Abstract of article proofs: "In recent decades, biblical and early Christian studies have become more keenly aware and critical of how ancient Mediterranean literature perpetuates patriarchal stereotypes about women, incites gendered violence, and often participates in a culture of blaming women for the perpetuation of such stereotypes and violence. This article examines how the soul is gendered and made a victim of sexual violence in a Nag Hammadi text known as the Exegesis on the Soul (Exeg. Soul). After introducing Exeg. Soul and Nag Hammadi Codex II, I examine how the text participates in victim blaming and in conversation with recent advances in classical and biblical scholarship, as well as key differences between Exeg. Soul and other texts in Codex II regarding their characterization of sexual violence. I argue that despite its usefulness in encouraging ascetics to resist desires and repent like the soul portrayed in the text, Exeg. Soul offers a less forgiving portrayal of divine intervention (or lack thereof) in moments of sexual violence and risks the revictimization of survivors."

✨proofs day✨ for "Victim Blaming and Slut Shaming in the Exegesis on the Soul," coming out with Harvard Theological Review soon

Classical reception crew: if you have written a classical reception book* (anywhere in the ancient world obviously not just Greece and Rome) that is open access or has a cover price of less than £30, can you let me know so I can check I’ve covered them all in my list? Thanks!

The Burning of Rome? Antike im Metal Donnerstag 26. März | Raum A8

The full program for next month's conference on Antiquity in Metal" in Trier, Germany is now available. Looking forward to a full gathering a fellow metal classicists, & delivering my talk"In Praise (and Blame) of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Metallici".

www.uni-trier.de/universitaet...

Map of Kpop Demon Hunters, KSoda Demon Hunters, and KCoke Demon Hunters.

KTonic Demon Hunters reside in the Underworld.

Groundhog Species of rodent "Woodchuck" redirects here. For other uses, see Groundhog (disambiguation) and Woodchuck (disambiguation). "Whistle Pig" redirects here. For the whiskey distillery, see WhistlePig. The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as the woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. I21 A lowland creature of North America, it is found through much of the Eastern United States, across Canada and into Alaska. 3] It was given its scientific name as Mus monax by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, 41 based on a description of the animal by George Edwards, published in 1743.151

True, but I think for the purposes of the neologism we can go with the genus name I guess?

It’s not a Greek word. Modern Greek borrowed it from elsewhere just as Portuguese did (probably from Vulgar Latin “mures montani”).

The Burning of Rome? Antike im Metal Donnerstag 26. März | Raum A8

The full program for next month's conference on Antiquity in Metal" in Trier, Germany is now available. Looking forward to a full gathering a fellow metal classicists, & delivering my talk"In Praise (and Blame) of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Metallici".

www.uni-trier.de/universitaet...

Update:

Bibliomancy probably, e.g. the sortes Vergilianae.

Groundhog Day in Greek

This was the movie poster from Greece.

Fucking typos omg

I'm now informed there's actually a proper ancient Greek word for groundhog, ἀρκτόμυς (arktomys, lit. bear-mouse).

So the word would would actully be arctomyomancy (ἀρκτομυομαντεία).

I am listening to Bolt Thrower.

That’s the post.

According to Google Translate, the modern Greek word for groundhog is μαρμότα (marmota), therefore a Greek-derived technical term for groundhog-divination would be marmotomancy (μαρμοτομαντεία).

Marmotomancy Phil.

Spend a week in Istanbul, then.

Cats of Thissio instagram post showing a short-haired brown tabby cat with one eye missing.

A selfie of myself with said cat sitting on my lap in front of the temple of Hephaestus.

The "Cats of Thissio" Instagram page just posted a picture of a familiar face...the very feline friend who came and sat on my lap while I rested by the temple of Hephaestus four years ago. I'm told her name is Elle.

journal cover

Mouseion: Journal of the @cacscec.bsky.social Vol. 21, No. 1 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56328 @projectmuse.bsky.social @utpressjournals.bsky.social @apistone.bsky.social @brekekekexkovax.bsky.social Breaking New Ground with Comics and the Ancient Mediterranean World