The Homer Hotline

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Homer Hotline Proudly made in Canada with guests from around the world, The Homer Hotline presents interviews and discussions about ancient epic and related matters. The intention is to give the audience a sense of...

Spiffed up the website with new banners and thumbnails. Check it out! Thanks to editor J.A. Wadsworth and artist Charlayn von Solms @charlaynvonsolms.com for helping out!

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I'm so confused. I tagged you because Charlayn and I were discussing a paper by Alex Forte. I met him and his partner Helen (I think?) back in 2012 in Leiden. Sorry for the confusion!

YouTube video by Homer Hotline Of Narratives and Nature with Prof. Joel Christensen (ep. 103)

I've admired @kevinsolez.bsky.social since he contributed expertise on Homer to Pharos when we were writing about the casting of David Gyasi to play Achilles. He's now hosting expert guests, including @sentantiq.bsky.social, at his "Homer Hotline" on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C30u...

Thank you, Curtis!

WORD FACT

Greek “dramein” (“to run”) and the related noun “dromos” (“running, racecourse”) ultimately give us:

Hippodrome → A racecourse for chariots (“Hippo-” = horse)

Dromedary → via Greek “dromas kamelos” (“running camel”) and Late Latin “dromedarius”

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I may be mistaken, but I thought minimus was by the Helen Forte that I met in Leiden. If that's not you, I apologize!

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.

YouTube video by NineInchNailsVEVO Nine Inch Nails - Survivalism

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.

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Douze destins de femmes de pouvoir en Égypte antique De Méryt-Neith à Cléopâtre, l’essai révèle comment des femmes gouvernent, héritent, négocient et bâtissent.

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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.

Homer Hotline Proudly made in Canada with guests from around the world, The Homer Hotline presents interviews and discussions about ancient epic and related matters. The intention is to give the audience a sense of...

In the face of "Epic Fury," I offer you Epic Joy.

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YouTube video by Homer Hotline HH 0107--Of Feasts and Other Heroic Feats with Dr. Kevin Solez and Guest Host Prof. Donna Wilson!

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!

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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
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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

YouTube video by Homer Hotline Of Corpses and Psychological Warfare with Prof. Andrew McClellan (EP. 101)

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

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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!

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YouTube video by Homer Hotline HH 0107--Of Feasts and Other Heroic Feats with Dr. Kevin Solez and Guest Host Prof. Donna Wilson!

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.

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In other news, we now have merch!

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"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."

I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk