Dimitri Nakassis

@dimitrinakassis.bsky.social

Greek archaeologist, Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder; Michigan (BA 1997) & Texas (PhD 2006) grad

"If Odysseus’ voluntary exile and final sailing into the setting sun is the actual ending of his tale, Nolan’s movie can be read as an apologetics for the violence that the U.S. and its allies have meted out upon the world since 9/11." blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

Joel Christensen · Sunset of the West

With its emphasis on craft and a PR campaign tailored to the genius of its director, Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey” wants to save cinema from the fangs of AI. But for all its visual magnificence, the f...

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this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

The interlibrary loan librarians at my university are amazing; I gave them what I knew about an article, put a ? in the fields I couldn't fill in, and within the day I had a PDF of the article (from Jahrbuch der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften)!