Gearing up to slow (?) read the Wilson translation of the Odyssey with the lovely @lisasass.bsky.social, using the Lattimore translation and the Oxford Greek texts for reference as appropriate/useful. The Greek texts will arrive later, perhaps after a ten year journey ... Fresh notebook is ready!

Ok, saw this making the rounds, doubt I’ll get much traction, but I’m bored sitting in a parking lot waiting for my son to finish at something. 1 like = 1 completely mundane fact about me

Dr Malice@atarbuck.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 completely dull mundane fact about me

As a B+, I really should start doing this again. I stopped when I dated someone from there after my divorce and it went sour, which is a silly reason I suppose.

Laurasaurus@laurasaurus.bsky.social · 2d ago

I haaaaate donating blood, but I’m gonna go later this week. Please do the same if you’re able.

It's about 9:30 AM on a Monday, I just quoted Adorno in an email to an undergraduate student, my good deed is done for the day, right?

Fending off Sunday anxieties by getting ahead of the buildup of email during my absence, doing bills, nuking my kitchen, and listening to music. Putting my house in order, as it were. youtu.be/q6F7xMRWB10?...

Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Dwight Yoakam

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Gawd beautiful

Bring a Trailer@bringatrailer.bsky.social · 3d ago

1959 BMW R69

Toolbox was a very good girl during my weeklong absence. Has received many treats and pets now.

At your next meal, take a second to think about the people working long hours in HOT 100° temps to put food on your table. They're not just statistics. They're real people who can't avoid the heat in an air conditioned house or office. #WeFeedYou

There’s a lot going on here.

Ennius@enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 3d ago

Three Latin translations of Psalm 1 together with an Anglo-Norman and Old English translation plus an interlinear and marginal gloss. Tripartitum Psalterium Eadwini ('The Eadwine Psalter'); MS R.17.1; c.1150; f.6r @trincolllibcam.bsky.social

My Odyssey film take is that the concept of intermission needs to be reintroduced.

Words to live by: "I want to be an honest man and a good writer." James A. Baldwin, born on this day in 1924

Looks interesting …

Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’ve been immersed in Theodosian Code since May, but awoke to find Prof. @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social ’s new Catullus translation. It’s amazing to see a person you admired as an undergraduate at UVA now killing it as a classicist & translator. Amo et Amo. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667356...

I started my day in Kentucky. I reached home in Delaware by the afternoon. I’m a fast mover, but now I’m tired.

Reposting this because in the replies are several great references to Greek texts, translations, and online tools for reading the Odyssey for those so inclined.

Ian Janssen@ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 5d ago

Best Greek text of the Odyssey? @lisasass.bsky.social and I will be reading the new translation together, and while I can’t hack reading Greek anymore, let alone the arcane Greek of Homeric epic, I’d like to refer to the text for words and phrases as my feeble skills permit. Recommendations?

Historical treatment of Alexander drawing on ALL the sources (Arrian, Curtius, Plutarch, etc., even the Alexander Romance), with scholars pitted against each other to tease out the differences between the texts and interpretations. Let them fight …

Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 5d ago

ok let's do a discourse: what historical text absolutely needs the big budget film treatment, AND will create the need for a review by a scholar in a prestige publication? for medieval Europe, either: -- Song of Roland -- Book of Margery Kempe

Best Greek text of the Odyssey? @lisasass.bsky.social and I will be reading the new translation together, and while I can’t hack reading Greek anymore, let alone the arcane Greek of Homeric epic, I’d like to refer to the text for words and phrases as my feeble skills permit. Recommendations?

I drive home to Delaware from St. Louis today and I for one did not anger Poseidon or any other of the fickle Greek deities so it shouldn’t take me ten years to get home … Preparing hekatomb now to ensure survival …

Arma virumque cano is basically most American movies these days anyway.

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

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

TEAM KENTUCKY Are you a CANtuckian or are you a CANTuckian? There is no I in Kentucky

Just me being crackery at a highway Cracker Barrel somewhere on the way to St. Louis to see my beloved @lisasass.bsky.social for a week.

Saturday morning shelfie: Library of America. Repost and show your own shelfie!

I'd prefer it not be George C. Scott as Patton, but it probably would be and he would be utterly merciless.

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

Pretty certain I can do that on my own …

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2w ago

God keep me from ever completing anything.

Saturday morning shelfie: Library of America. Repost and show your own shelfie!

I'd prefer it not be George C. Scott as Patton, but it probably would be and he would be utterly merciless.

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

I’m sitting on my porch in a steady rain and waning light listening to Mozart’s mass in c minor and having a moment of contemplation. American Christianity: what was the point of all that? What did it even accomplish? I realize that this is with the broad brush, but why? youtu.be/7y3sU_Hw2U4?...

Mozart: Mass in C Minor, K. 427 "Grosse Messe": Kyrie

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This would be the most stylish camping vehicle ever. Jeeves, my trekking poles, please …

Bring a Trailer@bringatrailer.bsky.social · 2w ago

1959 Mercedes-Benz 190Db Binz Kombiwagen

Folks say “being a man of contradictions” as if that’s negative. I’ve quite come to enjoy it. 🤪

At Knoebels amusement park in the Poconos (Pennsylvania). Found a nice shaded picnic table to read and drink my thermos of coffee while my son and two of his friends ride the rides and probably get sugar highs. They’ll either pass out during the three hour drive home or be utterly wired.

Thankfully Jay was located early this morning and is safe. Thanks all for sharing this.

Ian Janssen@ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3w ago

My friend’s husband, please keep an eye out in Delaware.