Shh, don’t tell our colleagues at the Faculty of Classics Library, but this is the only Odysseus we’re really interested in 🤫🐾 #OdysseusTheCat #CambridgeUniversityLibrary

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

“This summer… An epic tale of betrayal and the quest for forgiveness. In a world struggling to produce enough food, one man will brave the cold to survive. PLUMS only in cinemas.”

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

Odyssesus's dad wants to chat Routes (This one is a print and I have four copies left of in the edition before it's sold out, ie never to be printed again! Shop link in my bio 👆) #odyssey

wanted to contribute to Odyssey discourse but unfortunately nothing I could say is better commentary than bsky's post settings

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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I’m a former classicist who just saw The Odyssey, AMA. Just kidding… if I have to hear about the hospitality of Zeus one more time imma dispatch dozens of suitors.

I missed out 6) which is that Nolan's use of Bronze Age material culture (some instantly recognisable, some a bit more allusive/not-quite-right, mixed in with a whole bunch of Not Bronze Age stuff in a fantasy world) is more or less spot on for the Homeric epics' relationship with the Bronze Age

Anna P. Judson@annapjudson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thoughts of a Bronze Age Aegeanist watching the #Odyssey 1) nice pottery 2) Palace of Ithaca on the outside is totally the Evans concrete version of Knossos, right? 3) Polyphemus lives in the Cave of Nestor! 4) Nolan appears to think you can walk to Pylos from Ithaca? ... #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Thoughts of a Bronze Age Aegeanist watching the #Odyssey 1) nice pottery 2) Palace of Ithaca on the outside is totally the Evans concrete version of Knossos, right? 3) Polyphemus lives in the Cave of Nestor! 4) Nolan appears to think you can walk to Pylos from Ithaca? ... #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

I very much enjoyed the Antonine Wall display on my recent visit to @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social. Especially love this building inscription, where the Victory figures seem to be cheerleading to celebrate how much of the wall the legion has built #EpigraphyTuesday #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

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#OnThisDay in 1952 Michael Ventris announced on the radio that he had deciphered the Linear B script, and the language it was used to write was Greek: www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/maga... #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 1/2

Linear B decoder Michael Ventris on BBC in 1952

For more than 50 years, the decipherment of a mysterious ancient script called Linear B was seen as one of the greatest linguistic riddles - it was eventually cracked in 1952 by a British architect.

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In March 2026 the University of Exeter was boasting of its top 100 QS World Rankings status for arts and humanities. Now it is devastating the same areas with drastic cuts. Something is seriously wrong. Solidarity to all the excellent colleagues affected by this. news.exeter.ac.uk/university/e...

Exeter records sweeping successes in QS World Rankings by Subject

The University of Exeter has recorded sweeping success in the latest prestigious international ranking, reflecting its strong teaching and research excellence. Exeter has recorded significant, double-...

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📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

Colleagues at Exeter have asked me to circulate their petition as widely as possible: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

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This Will Hurt You More Than It Hurts Me

[The Neville Morley of Earth 2 developed a brief stint as Faculty Education Director into a full-blown managerial career, rapidly progressing via Head of School and Dean to Pro-Vice Chancellor for …

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A brief appreciation thread for some of my colleagues in Classics at Exeter, who the University of Exeter have put at risk of redundancy @exeter.ac.uk. A few are on here, most are not, but I'm going to say nice things about them anyway.

This is awful news from Exeter 😢

Ben Phillips@benphillips1989.bsky.social · last mo.

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

Along with almost all of my colleagues in history, this afternoon I got an email telling me that I am at risk of redundancy. It looks like the University of Exeter sent this email to the vast majority of people in Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty. Bit hard to breath right now.

Ben Phillips@benphillips1989.bsky.social · last mo.

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

This week's #TinyJoys: #NotMyCat has been helping* me work from home *napping very comfortably while I work

"I am the sacred property of Hera-in-the-Plain: Kyniskos the butcher dedicated me, a tithe from his works." Sybaris, c. 520 BCE. I wasn't looking for this object, but now I love it so.

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The UK Government is expected to publish its updated Code of Practice tomorrow – just in time for their holidays.

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Me: I wish I could have the afternoon off from marking Turnitin: [collapses] Me: not like that! I have so much to do!

As a humanities scholar this is bizarre. I don't think you should be listed as the author of a paper if you haven't read it or don't understand the things it references. That feels... basic?

Dr. Holly Walters@manigarm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Well, this definitely feel like way too apt a metaphor for... *gestures incoherently at Everything Right Now*

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"You had one job."