Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.

I highly recommend Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's play *An Iliad* for 'translating' this aspect! there are several catalogues at various points in the play and they're incredibly effective in performance. though not so much cheer-inducing.

Independent Republic of JS Thrill@jsthrill.modphi.com · 3d ago

yeah this chapter is coming along very nicely

I'm badly wounded, many of my friends are dead, and I haven't been home in ten years. But at least now Helen will have to return to Sparta.

have Bellerophon say “father I cannot click the baneful signs”

the day is rapidly approaching when I will have to face my fears and write this section about Alcestis. thankfully I can delay that day indefinitely by telling myself that first I have to read everything ever written about Alcestis.

Enough of baked goods. I'm going to bake some evils.

in what follows i will reinvent the wheel

you have got to be kidding me

this dissertation project is such that every few months I end up going "ah well. guess it's time to become an expert on [yet another lost/fragmentary tragedy]!"

you know what, that's as good an argument as any about the distribution of roles among actors. at least it's honest.

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

look I understand that the norm in 1840 or whatever was to publish your classical scholarship in Latin, but that does not excuse using Ciceronian sentence structure

this meeting could've been an oral tradition

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of course.

today in dissertation drafting

coming to terms with the fact that I, a person who uses "vel sim." in grocery lists, am probably not representative of the general population of English-language-users

I feel like I'm doing baby's first citational ethics with what is perhaps the most clear-cut case possible

great how my running dissertation to-do list includes such lovely items as "add more sexual assault to chapter 2," "monster footnote on dating that nobody asked for," and just "trauma"

'Egyptian/Phoenician Glass Dog Head Bead, 6th-4th Century BC' www.lotsearch.net/lot/egyptian...

The history of the West shows that many of its greatest leaders, from the Greeks and the Romans forward, lost humiliating wars to Persia. by Niall Ferguson

I like the part of the Odyssey at the Phaeacian court where Homer has Odysseus turn to the camera and say: "Now, we've all been having a lot of fun here today, but let's remember who the REAL heroes are---the hardworking bards and harpers in your own neighborhood. Remember to leave a tip, kids."

papyrology! in the dissertation footnotes

had students pick a historical Roman to do an optional Latin composition assignment about for extra credit, and I will clearly be getting many more submissions about Caesar than about women. probably should've seen that coming.

I feel like I should give extra credit points to whichever student has the most pageviews on Canvas by the end of the quarter

Present, Future, Aorist, Perfect, Pluperfect, Aorist Passive 🏺

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 3mo ago

what are the Six Genders? wrong answers only

Can’tvas

I may have gotten into the wrong era of theater, all the plays I work on have boring titles like "Ajax" or "Agamemnon"

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