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It's about books, not baseball--Simonides, not The Simpsons. This is the Homer Hotline, a podcast featuring discussions with scholars of ancient epic and related issues, scheduled to release its first season in 2026.
These days, every day feels like Friday the 13th.
Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy.
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Read @nevillemorley.eurosky.social !
The Delphic Oracle spoke: “If you launch this war, you will destroy a great empire and enemy of world peace, and your name will be remembered for millennia.”
They couldn’t have found a better example of the profound lack of understanding these machines and their promoters have of language, literature, and human communication styles if they had been trying to discredit AI!
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LOL...they did their best.
Here is a report of some exploratory work transforming a traditional Greek textbook (Crosby and Schaeffer) into something truly digital. sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...
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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!
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.
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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.
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.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qSsR...
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.
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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