The Homer Hotline
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It's about books, not baseball--Simonides, not The Simpsons. This is the Homer Hotline, a podcast featuring discussions with scholars of ancient epic and related matters. YouTube.com/@HomerHotline.
Please enjoy my take on Nolan's _The Odyssey_: "Reflecting on Nolan's Odyssey with Spoilers" kevinsolez.ca/updates-and-...
Updates and Blog Posts
REFLECTING ON NOLAN’S ODYSSEY WITH SPOILERS I saw Christopher Nolan’s _The Odyssey_ with my wife on August 2nd, and I thought it was great. When I taught Classics and Pop Culture, I wou…
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This is great. My friend Dr. Louise A. Hitchcock on Homeric echoes in _The Mandalorian and Grogu_ (with spoilers). neoskosmos.com/en/2026/05/2...
The Mandalorian and Grogu: Nostos, myth, and the heroic journey
“The songs of eons past tell of battles between Mandalore the Great, and an order of sorcerers called Jedi that fought with such powers.” —The Armourer (The Mandalorian: Chapter 8: …
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I have just interviewed Prof. Dr. Anton Bierl, editor of the Basler Kommentar on the Iliad and professor emeritus of Greek in the Department Altertumswissenschaften at the University of Basel. You can look forward to that in Season 2, September 2026! daw.philhist.unibas.ch/de/personen/...
Bierl Anton F.H. | Departement Altertumswissenschaften | Universität Basel
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Reupping for the Anglophone crowd #BlueskyClassics 🏺 www.popsci.com/science/egyp...
Egyptian mummy discovered stuffed with excerpt from ‘The Iliad’
Instead of magical texts, part of Homer's epic helped preserve the 1,600-year-old remains.
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The Homer Hotline@thehomerhotline.bsky.social · 4mo ago#BlueskyClassics 🏺 Published today: papyrus excerpt of Iliad's Catalogue of Ships discovered in the abdomen of a mummy. www.beauxarts.com/grand-format...
Happy birthday Billy Shax!! — here’s the extra long, live special episode of You’re Dead To Me we did about Shakespeare, with our fantastic guests @herring1967.bsky.social & Prof Farah Karim-Cooper www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
You're Dead to Me - Shakespeare - BBC Sounds
Greg Jenner and guests present a special edition from the Shakespeare North Playhouse.
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I'm plotting an open studio day/week for some time in mid-May. If you're in or near Cape Town then, and are interested in seeing where the sausage is made, let me know if you'd like to visit. In the meantime, here is a terrible video about gods, countdowns, judgment day, and satellites.
#BlueskyClassics 🏺 Published today: papyrus excerpt of Iliad's Catalogue of Ships discovered in the abdomen of a mummy. www.beauxarts.com/grand-format...
Langues en or, extrait de l'Iliade retrouvé dans l'abdomen d'une momie : de rares découvertes effectuées en Égypte
Une équipe d'archéologues, fouillant la nécropole d’Oxyrhynque, a retrouvé dans une momie un fragment de papyrus contenant un extrait du texte du poète grec Homère.
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Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫
I was thinking about music, but sport is an equally helpful analogy. Need to train, avoid injury, build stamina, warm up and warm down. We don’t do any of this (to my knowledge) which may be one of the reasons mental health is under so much pressure. Academia as performance discipline.
Everything is very stupid, Thucydides edition, peer-reviewed version. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Thucydiocies: How Not to Read Thucydides in Contemporary Political Discourse | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Thucydiocies: How Not to Read Thucydides in Contemporary Political Discourse - Volume 2
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DAWN OF THE DEAD (Anagram-Haiku) Woodland: The day breaks. Another dead body walks and wreaks bloody death.
Now I've heard there was a dreadful post That when it's read man it sucks the most But you don't really care for posting, do ya? It goes like this, log off you tit The dreadful dork, the major grift The baffled posters saying "Please touch grass, mate" Please touch grass mate Please touch grass mate
huh weird, did republicans make some kind of colossal historic fuckup in the past few weeks? polymarket.com/event/which-...
Hello. Been away. Here’s a near perfectly preserved shield (or hoplon) found at Olympia in Greece. If you zoom in, you’ll see little holes in the rim used to tie on a leather cover. It was probably dedicated as a gift to Zeus. 🏛️ Hellenic Museum, Melbourne 🕰️ c 500 BC
Have you ever wanted a tie-dyed number with stony-faced Homer and a nuclear phone? Check out our merch! www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8815...
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These days, every day feels like Friday the 13th.
Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺
The Delphic Oracle spoke: “If you launch this war, you will destroy a great empire and enemy of world peace, and your name will be remembered for millennia.”
They couldn’t have found a better example of the profound lack of understanding these machines and their promoters have of language, literature, and human communication styles if they had been trying to discredit AI!
Here is a report of some exploratory work transforming a traditional Greek textbook (Crosby and Schaeffer) into something truly digital. sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...
Towards corpus-based learning: exercises with Ancient Greek » Perseus Digital Library Updates
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Homer Hotline
Proudly made in Canada with guests from around the world, The Homer Hotline presents interviews and discussions about ancient epic and related matters. The intention is to give the audience a sense of...
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I've admired @kevinsolez.bsky.social since he contributed expertise on Homer to Pharos when we were writing about the casting of David Gyasi to play Achilles. He's now hosting expert guests, including @sentantiq.bsky.social, at his "Homer Hotline" on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C30u...
Of Narratives and Nature with Prof. Joel Christensen (ep. 103)
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Thank you, Curtis!
Curtis Dozier@curtisdozier.bsky.social · 6mo agoI've admired @kevinsolez.bsky.social since he contributed expertise on Homer to Pharos when we were writing about the casting of David Gyasi to play Achilles. He's now hosting expert guests, including @sentantiq.bsky.social, at his "Homer Hotline" on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C30u...
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gecko lizard, Ar. Nu. 173, Arist. Fr. 370.
sword-fish, = ξιφίας, Plb. 34.2.12, Str. 1.2.15.
weasel, Luc. VH 1.35; γ. γέρων (transl. by colore mustelino, Ter. Eun. 4.4.21 [689]) Men. 188.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:grtpqn5td2lpqipxqd5jwvcs/bafkreietpn6fupwvoidtwtlalr3mvdmywc6zy2qazozc7icei4xukfosr4)