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refugee from twitter, should it fall. Translations from Greece and Rome. Other questionable things. Mainline joel @ brandeis .edu

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“I’d rather be Homer’s Thersites’ than your Achilles.” παρ’ ῾Ομήρῳ ἐβουλόμην ἂν εἶναι Θερσίτης ἢ παρὰ σοὶ ᾿Αχιλλεύς sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/07/16/a...

Alexander the Great on Homer, Amazons, and Diogenessententiaeantiquae.com These sayings come from the Gnomologium Vaticanum 78 “When Alexander arrived in Troy and gazed upon the tomb of Achilles he stopped and said “Achilles, how lucky you were to have Homer as your grea…

“The life of the poor is like trying to sail on land, while the wealthy voyage on seas. It is easier for the rich to cast their cables, to head to port, and to bring their ship to land; but not so much for the poor.” #Aristonymous (Stobaeus, 4.33.29)

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it's not that he's changed his mind about trump, really. it's more that he's changed his mind about hitler.

I get that he’s taken it all back, including when he said he feared Trump would be America’s Hitler, but I guess my position is… I have never gone to work for someone I’ve ever in any point in my life compared directly to Adolf Hitler… and it’s a fair question… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump Taps J.D. Vance as Running Matewww.rollingstone.com Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he has selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his 2024 running mate.

I am joining the 92nd Street Y in NYC (virtually) to run three sessions about the Odyssey and Psychology in October! roundtable.org/live-courses...

Roundtable by The 92nd Street Y, New York — Live, Online Coursesroundtable.org Roundtable is live, in-the-moment online courses with respected and passionate experts who give you a place at the table to ask questions, join a discussion, and satisfy your curious mind.

"There is some different word better fit to these years, or at least to this body, since old age seems to be a tired time, not a broken one. Count me among the weary and those just touching the end." sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/07/15/a...

After the Body, The Mind Fades Awaysententiaeantiquae.com Seneca, Moral Epistle 26.1-3 “I was recently explaining to you that I am in sight of my old age—but now I fear that I have put old age behind me! There is some different word better fit to these ye…

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🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦 CAMPEONES DE EUROPA DE NUEVO 🏆 🏆 🏆🏆 (se fue a su verdadero hogar) ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️

I just can't

"He wounded himself and his mules and then drove his wagon into the marketplace as if he had fled enemies who wished to kill him as he was traveling to the country." sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/07/14/e...

Escaping Death, A Tyrantsententiaeantiquae.com Herodotus, 1.59 “After that, [Hippokrates] had a son named Peisistratos. Then the Athenians on the coasts were in strife with those who lived inland and Megakles, the son of Alcmeôn, was the …

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"Stop Making Sense is itself a text–it is a visual and audio recording of a series of concerts. It is a production made of Talking Heads songs but recorded from multiple performances and stitched together through editing." open.substack.com/pub/joelchri...

Psycho Killersopen.substack.com What Stop Making Sense Can teach Us About the Iliad

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Wholesome thread😎

people who have taken my workshops have said things like: "inspirational!" "the best and most practical faculty development workshop ever!" and "shall we go get a drink before dinner!"

"the interweaving [of Homeric episodes in books] reminds me of the way performers combine and change songs...to create a performance that in someway coheres in the real time of the audience’s experience." open.substack.com/pub/joelchri...

Psycho Killersopen.substack.com What Stop Making Sense Can teach Us About the Iliad

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I am the center of this Venn diagram.

Psycho Killersopen.substack.com What Stop Making Sense Can teach Us About the Iliad

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Please stop micro-targeting me with content like this, Joel

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I completely loved this.

Psycho Killers: What "Stop Making Sense" can tell us about the Iliad open.substack.com/pub/joelchri...

Psycho Killersopen.substack.com What Stop Making Sense Can teach Us About the Iliad

Psycho Killers: What "Stop Making Sense" can tell us about the Iliad open.substack.com/pub/joelchri...

Psycho Killersopen.substack.com What Stop Making Sense Can teach Us About the Iliad

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Happy Friday classics folks!

“Kleostratos the drunk, when someone asked him in admonishment “Aren’t you ashamed to be drunk?”, responded “Aren’t you ashamed of admonishing a drunk?” sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/07/11/i...

It’s Thursday. Here’s a Handy Rejoinder if You’re Drinkingsententiaeantiquae.com From the Gnomologium Vaticanum 371 “Kleostratos the drunk, when someone asked him in admonishment “Aren’t you ashamed to be drunk?”, responded “Aren’t you ashamed of admonishing a drunk?” Κλεόστρατ…

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Network analysis in the study of the ancient world is very useful. An article that never got enough engagement was Diane Cline's splendid viz. of Athenian political agents in the mid-5thC BCE (lots of Pericles, but also women as connectors!) cc. @digkabri.bsky.social jhnr.uni.lu/index.php/jh...

“Heraclitus said “people are terrible judges of the truth” <῾Ο> αὐτὸς εἶπεν· „ἄνθρωποι κακοὶ ἀληθινῶν ἀντίδικοι” sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/07/11/b...

Bad Witnesses: Some Apocryphal Sayings of Heraclitussententiaeantiquae.com These sayings come from the Gnomologium Vaticanum 310 “Heraclitus the natural philosopher said that he was wisest of all when he was young because he didn’t think that he knew anything.” ῾Ηράκλειτο…

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For those teaching, researching, or interested in visualizing Greek myth, there is an invaluable new interactive map & database of Greek mythic persons, objects, & places called MANTO. The raw linked open data alone is stunning but the maps are also fantastic [1/4] manto.unh.edu/viewer.p/60/...

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youtube.com/shorts/PM2O9... We all have some strong feelings when it comes to the Sword of #Troy! I'm still kind of holding out for the #Aeneid sequel though... @sentantiq.bsky.social #AncientBluesky #Archaeology #Podcast Listen to the full convo at: www.movieswedig.com/podcast/troy...

The Sword of Troy: What Does It Do?- Troy (2004) Revisited with Joel Christensenyoutube.com We all have some strong feelings when it comes to the Sword of Troy! Just one of many things to get hung up on with this film. I'm still kind of holding out ...

Some might say that the Homeric Iliad is unfilmable and I wouldn't disagree. (But this is over relying on the word film. I think it could be done well in a 12 to 24 part prestige television show style if anyone wants to hear me pitch it…) open.substack.com/pub/joelchri...

A (not so) Epic Movieopen.substack.com A Podcast on Troy (2004)

A (not so) Epic Movie: A Podcast on Troy with @dig_movies open.substack.com/pub/joelchri...

A (not so) Epic Movieopen.substack.com A Podcast on Troy (2004)

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Hello Listeners! Today we return to this podcast's debut topic, Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy! Joined by special guest Joel Christensen @sentantiq.bsky.social, we revisit this oddly situated film that was the 2004 attempt to keep the Gladiator train going. #AncientBluesky youtube.com/shorts/B1LyG...

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ὡς ἀπόλοιτο καὶ ἄλλος, ὅτις τοιαῦτά γε ῥέζοι

“Must we beg Caesar to handle us no worse than His other slaves? Have your generals’ lives been begged? Our safety will never be the price and bribe for foul treason." sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/07/01/g...

Greek and Latin for Perjury and Treasonsententiaeantiquae.com ἐπιορκία, ἡ: perjury ἐπίορκος, ὁ: Perjurer ἐπιορκέω: to commit perjury ψευδορκεῖν: to make a false oath Plato, Republic 334b (referring to Od. 19.395) “He bested all men in theft and perjury.…

"But a roar comes from Justice as she is dragged where bribe-devouring men lead when they apply laws with crooked judgments. She attends the city and the haunts of the hosts ... bringing evil to people who drive her out and do not practice righteous law" sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/07/01/c...

Crooked Judges and Justice’s Roarsententiaeantiquae.com Hesiod, Works and Days 217-229 “Oath runs right alongside crooked judgments. But a roar comes from Justice as she is dragged where bribe-devouring men lead when they apply laws with crooked judgmen…

"Keep these things in mind, bribe-swallowing kings: whoever wrongs another also wrongs himself; an evil plan is most evil for the one who makes it." sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/07/01/c...

“What a pitiful overthrow of the state–so fast and twisted, so rushed! Who will have the ability to entrust these events to words in a way that they seem facts instead of fiction?" sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/06/30/h...

History, Stranger than Fictionsententiaeantiquae.com Pseudo-Cicero, Letter to Octavian 7 “What a pitiful overthrow of the state–so fast and twisted, so rushed! Who will have the ability to entrust these events to words in a way that they seem facts i…