Flint Dibble
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⛏️ Archaeologist. Ancient Greek animals, food, & environment Fighting Atlantis pseudoscience 🌊🏛 2024 Ockham Award for skeptical activism Tavros is our rescue 🐈 from Knossos It's my real name | he/him www.youtube.com/@flintdibble
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A.V. Marraccini@saintsoftness.bsky.social · 4h agoNew today: me in the Berlin Review, responding to @sentantiq on Nolan's Odyssey, but also on the collapse of literacy in contemporary America, senses of apocalypse in the humanities, and a relevant new Hölderlin translation: blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
The next blockbuster: The Sea People Heroes: Rameses the Great & Ammurapi of Ugarit Villain: Odysseus Plot twist: climate change caused mass migration Final scene: Phoenician makes it out of Ugarit with an iron sword Film-making twist: archaeologists consulted Chris Nolan: call me Visuals:
I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.
Chris Suellentrop@suellentrop.bsky.social · 24h agoTurns out @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social knows a lot about ancient epics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Reading the Odyssey in 1996: - savor every page - idly look up words in ancient Greek that intrigue you - enjoy the metaphors and monsters - read aloud the poetic turns of phrase - don't overthink the characters - revel in history and myth Reading the Odyssey in 2026:
Do you hear that? That's the sound of a million scholars around the world rejoicing as people turn away from their phones towards books written thousands of years ago
Hey all, I appeared on @ancientlyric.bsky.social's YouTube channel to chat archaeology: the Odyssey, animal bones, ancient music, and more! youtu.be/-WtaJjFtSBY?...
Storytelling Ep 31. Flint Dibble. Animal Bones in Bronze Age & Odyssey world. Bettina Joy de Guzman
YouTube video by Bettina Joy de Guzman
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Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
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@flintdibble.bsky.social This seems another occasion in which archaeologists discover, publish, and emphasize new things, things which change how an entire part of the planet has been thought to have been settled, versus the pseudos saying academics suppress new things. phys.org/news/2026-07...
An ancient civilization of millions once flourished in the Amazon
New research conducted using airborne laser scanning reveals that a multicultural civilization that flourished in southwestern Amazonia between 600 BCE and 850 CE was home to millions of people. Spann...
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Cinema is dead, bring back narrative pottery
Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · 5d agoEveryone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13
Coming soon, in Marvel Phase 432 ... Pig Man!
Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · 5d agoThis image of Circe is one of my favorites as it combines all the above: compressing multiple moments of her vignette into one image, while inaccurately representing a sailor as half-human/half-pig for easy identifiability /5
So much talk about the myth, not enough about the art and archaeology of the Odyssey! Let's change that
Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · 5d agoEveryone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13
Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13
I met a student yesterday who literally got into archaeology because of me So frigging cool to hear 🤠
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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This was sooo fun! Thank you so much Flint! I’m watching the recorded version now and seeing people’s comments! 😁Y’all I’m here if you have questions! Say hi!
Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · 7d agoWant to hear the song of the sirens? Bettina Joy de Guzman @ancientlyric.bsky.social is a phenomenal musician who performs authentic ancient Greek poetry on historical replica instruments LIVE NOW! youtube.com/live/BZn_-80...
One detail Nolan got wrong in The Odyssey is a key detail that EVERY SINGLE ADAPTATION of the Odyssey has gotten wrong for centuries In ancient Greece, the sirens were NOT voluptuous mermaids. They were birds with human heads A short thread of sirens in art 1/5
Want to hear the song of the sirens? Bettina Joy de Guzman @ancientlyric.bsky.social is a phenomenal musician who performs authentic ancient Greek poetry on historical replica instruments LIVE NOW! youtube.com/live/BZn_-80...
What did the Sirens sing in the Odyssey? Ancient music with Bettina Joy de Guzman
Bettina Joy de Guzman is a Classicist and musician who composes and...
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Archaeology is one of the things that aid genocide" - @archagainstaparth.bsky.social. From EOPodcast Ep4: Archaeology, Apartheid and War. Available on streaming platforms + on EO's youtube page: www.spreaker.com/podcast/ever...
Earlier today, I walked by a blackberry bush filled with plump berries. It was in someone's yard but within reach Before picking two handfuls of berries, I shouted "Zeus's law" I'm now lost and in a cave and my hands are stained red with berry juice. There's cheese nearby...
Don't miss this later today! (1pm EDT)
Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · last wk.Want to hear the song of the sirens? Bettina Joy de Guzman @ancientlyric.bsky.social is a phenomenal musician who performs authentic ancient Greek poetry on historical replica instruments I'll host her tomorrow at 1pm EDT for a music-filled livestream Link: youtube.com/live/BZn_-80...
I like them stinky. A good oozy epoisses is just perfect on some toast (sometimes with jam or honey) 😋
Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese
Did you know I have a new book coming out about a graduate student who is a slime mold from beyond the galaxy? Who comes to Earth to do fieldwork and meets a badass sex worker in ancient Pompeii? It's called "A Wall Is Also a Road." You should pre-order it now! torpublishinggroup.com/a-wall-is-al...
A Wall Is Also a Road
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Want to hear the song of the sirens? Bettina Joy de Guzman @ancientlyric.bsky.social is a phenomenal musician who performs authentic ancient Greek poetry on historical replica instruments I'll host her tomorrow at 1pm EDT for a music-filled livestream Link: youtube.com/live/BZn_-80...
What did the Sirens sing in the Odyssey? Ancient music with Bettina Joy de Guzman
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
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Starting in about an hour!
Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · last wk.COME ONE, COME ALL: Tomorrow at 12:30 EDT for a BIG OL' REVIEW OF THE ODYSSEY We'll cover the GOOD, the BAD, and the UGLY, of Nolan's Odyssey. Together, we'll be diving into the nitty gritty of the movie, the archaeology, and the ancient text itself. Link is here: youtube.com/live/R1qSog2... 1/3
I'm so late in seeing this movie that the Classicists are already out here reviewing the reviews
Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · last wk.I'm a huge Emily Wilson fan She taught me ancient Greek. I've assigned her translations to my students. I interviewed her about translating the Odyssey a few weeks ago for my YouTube I'm not a fan of this review. And for what, I think, are good reasons (SPOILERS) /1
I'm a huge Emily Wilson fan She taught me ancient Greek. I've assigned her translations to my students. I interviewed her about translating the Odyssey a few weeks ago for my YouTube I'm not a fan of this review. And for what, I think, are good reasons (SPOILERS) /1
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.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...
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Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · last wk.COME ONE, COME ALL: Tomorrow at 12:30 EDT for a BIG OL' REVIEW OF THE ODYSSEY We'll cover the GOOD, the BAD, and the UGLY, of Nolan's Odyssey. Together, we'll be diving into the nitty gritty of the movie, the archaeology, and the ancient text itself. Link is here: youtube.com/live/R1qSog2... 1/3