Dr. Jeremy Swist

Meet the Philippides Study Collection with Classics Professors : Department of Classics : UMass Amherst
www.umass.edu/classics/eve...

Persian elite warrior. One of the "Immortals" (c. 480 BCE) Persian servant carrying tribute (c. 480 BCE) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Arsames （ "Xerxes" (2010) « 不可旦司 PERSIAN METAL MUSIC

Ramses the Great Cyrus the Great Alexander the Great Pompey the Great Herod the Great Constantine the Great Justinian the Great Charlemagne (i.e. Charles the Great) Frederick the Great Catherine the Great "The Great" Megas (Greek) Magnus (Latin) What makes somebody "the Great"? What does "Great" mean?

Iron Maiden →K "Alexander the Great" (Live in 2024)

Today’s Metal & Premodernity class transitioned from the Spartan to Alexander by considering the “Persian version” in both Achaemenid art & modern Iranian metal. We then discussed the definitions & criteria for being “the Great,” before analyzing Iron Maiden’s “Alexander the Great” in full.

Kawir - Αδράστεια

Metal #ClassicsTober25 Day 7: φαρμακίς (pharmakis) - witch, sorceress

Kawir 🇬🇷 Medea

Αδράστεια (2019)

Pagan black metal

"Φαρμάκιδα Μήδεια
Αδελφοκτόνος Μήδεια φαρμακεύτρα.

Μήδεια βδελυρή Μήδεια φαρμακεύτρα
Μήδεια η πλανεύτρα Μήδεια μελανόψυχη"

#ClassicsTober

I woke up to a review of a book published by a convicted felon in my field, and it's interesting to read that in the book, he attempts to depersonalize Cicero, to separate the man from the work. That's probably a neutral choice.

journal cover

New issue of Illinois Classical Studies Vol. 50, No. 1, Spring 2025 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55694 @projectmuse.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social Fake News is or as Invective in Ancient Texts

“I’m not being an asshole I’m neurodivergent.”

YouTube video by ERB Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible. Epic Rap Battles of History

My Metal & Premodernity class is covering Alexander today, and so we're going to watch this video to foreground a discussion of what makes an historical figure "the Great," what that actually means, and who decides it.

Lyrics: www.metal-archives.com/albums/Kawir...

Medea, by Iron Bonehead Productions from the album Kawir - Adrasteia

Music: ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/track/medea

Kawir - Αδράστεια

Metal #ClassicsTober25 Day 7: φαρμακίς (pharmakis) - witch, sorceress

Kawir 🇬🇷 Medea

Αδράστεια (2019)

Pagan black metal

"Φαρμάκιδα Μήδεια
Αδελφοκτόνος Μήδεια φαρμακεύτρα.

Μήδεια βδελυρή Μήδεια φαρμακεύτρα
Μήδεια η πλανεύτρα Μήδεια μελανόψυχη"

#ClassicsTober

‘Authorship and Intolerance in Late Antiquity,’ Porphyra 30 (2024 [2025]) 11-31. ‘Authorship and Intolerance in Late Antiquity,’ Porphyra 30 (2024 [2025]) 11-31.

A new article by Anthony Kaldellis: www.academia.edu/144320605/_A...

This was a fun conversation!

Lately, the perma in permafrost.

"Is Cicero a Natural Philosopher?"

That can mean two different things.

This was a fun conversation!

Hell is Other People - Moirae

Metal #ClassicsTober Day 6: Moirai

Hell Is Other People 🇨🇦 Moirae

Moirae (2024)

Post-black metal

Full track-list:
1. Moirae
2. Fates
3. Degrade
4. Loss
5. Atropos

This is Vidal's best novel and that is really saying something. It puts him up there with Mary Renault and Robert Graves.

I went onto a podcast to talk about Julian!

#ClassicsTober25

journal cover

New issue of Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 33, No. 3 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55688 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Keine Könige

Pas de rois en Amérique.

Nada de Reyes

No kings Pas de rois

My building on campus houses all the language programs. These were on the stairs up to where my office is this morning.

Class Report: Proclus the Hierophant Relatório de Aula: Proclo, o Hierofante

New class report out for paid subscribers: Proclus the Hierophant

We followed Proclus into the purificatory virtues — his life as “common priest of the whole world.”

Why the sea is both a place of purification and generation, and how sacred symbols purify the will as dialectic purifies thought.

Check out our latest podcast episode as we sit down with MSU #Classics assistant professor and author Jeremy Swist to discuss Emperor Julian.

www.diggingupthepast.net/p/the-last-p...

@metalclassicist.bsky.social #history #historyfacts #historymatters #historical #byzantine #romanempire #roman

Moirae, by HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE 5 track album

Music (no lyrics available): hellisotherpeoplebm.bandcamp.com/album/moirae

Hell is Other People - Moirae

Metal #ClassicsTober Day 6: Moirai

Hell Is Other People 🇨🇦 Moirae

Moirae (2024)

Post-black metal

Full track-list:
1. Moirae
2. Fates
3. Degrade
4. Loss
5. Atropos

I went onto a podcast to talk about Julian!

77 down, 118 to go.

Here’s the recipe I used: corrigansisters.com/authentic-in...

Chicken biryani.

Country #77 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is INDIA 🇮🇳

Chicken Biryani is chicken marinated in yogurt, garlic, ginger & several spices like saffron, garam masala & cinnamon, mixed with fried onions & rice parboiled with cloves, star anise & cardamom pods. Garnished with yogurt & coriander.

The Last Pagan Emperor? Rethinking Julian’s Legacy Listen now | Episode 30

Who was Julian, Rome’s last pagan emperor, and what was his legacy? I talk with MSU #Classics assistant professor and author Jeremy Swist about how history and early Christian writers shaped his story.

www.diggingupthepast.net/p/the-last-p...

#history #historyfacts #byzantine #romanempire #roman