Seumas MacDhòmhnaill

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δοῦλος χριστοῦ. Latin, Greek, Gaelic, Patristics, Language acquisition. PhD. academic ronin.
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A week and a half until the new term at SeumasU! Latin and Ancient Greek classes online thepatrologist.com/shop/

SeumasU : Online courses in Latin and Greekthepatrologist.com Visit the post for more.

And if you live in Sydney, Australia and want to learn Ancient Greek, this is great news for you: thepatrologist.com/2024/06/26/i...

In-person Greek class, October 2024!thepatrologist.com It’s been a very long time since I’ve taught Greek in-person. Before the coronavirus. But it’s going to happen. When? Monday nights, 7:30pm-9:30pm, for 10 weeks starting October 1…

Upcoming classes in Greek and Latin! thepatrologist.com/2024/06/25/u...

Upcoming classes in July, 2024thepatrologist.com It’s time for a new round of classes here at SeumasU! This term I have the usual gambit of introductory Greek, not so much Latin (sorry! it’s a demand issue not a supply one), and then …

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Registration open - The 2024 Teaching Classical Languages Symposium - hybrid/Sydney (VGCC) - August 17, 9am-4pm AEST - register (free)/program: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-2024-t...

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When you look up a word in the dic•tio•nary, the dots in the middle of the word aren't there to mark out the syllables of the word; they mark where you can put a hyphen if the word doesn't fit on one line. Sometimes that corresponds with syllables, sometimes not. (See "dictionary" above!)

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.

today it dawned on me how interesting that in English we use both 'clients' and 'patrons' to mean 'customers of a business'

I don't do academic work and I've mostly stopped trying because I am finally coming to terms with the reality that I'm not paid to be an academic.

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Numen tecum sit! Here’s the video I narrated and animated of @legonium.bsky.social ‘s excellent slides of Star Wars - A New Hope in Latin! Enjoy! youtu.be/ef0dg-DVOuI?...

Spes Nova - Star Wars in Latin! - Legonium - HD 720pyoutu.be Star Wars - Episode IV - A New Hope - in Latin!Original Translation, Text, and Images by Legonium. Reading and Editing by me! Disney don't sue! Go to www.leg...

fun times this morning kicking off a class reading Maximus the Confessor in Greek.

not too late to come read some Augustine with me thepatrologist.com/product/lati...

Latin 237: Augustine and Alypiusthepatrologist.com Description: In this class we’ll be reading and discussing a selection of medieval Latin. The exact text of texts is yet to be determined This is an intermediate reading and discussion class.…

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This morning I discovered a Middle Breton translation by @klud.bsky.social of JRR Tolkien's poem on the Rings of Power (over in the Dark Realm: twitter.com/Huaka/status...). Inspired by this, I couldn't resist the temptation of laying my hands on a version of the same in Old Irish... /1

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me, just constantly trying to convince people to read Greek Patristics with me thepatrologist.com/2024/03/22/a...

A Greek Patristics masterclass?thepatrologist.com I just want to float the idea here of something I have tried more than once to get up and running, but never really gotten the uptake. But essentially I would really love to get a reading-group / m…

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Agathe Thornton, one of New Zealand's most prominent 20th century classicists, taught at the University of Otago from 1948 to 1974. When she was hired, at age 37, she had one article in print. In a different field. And three pages long. Her second publication came 14 years later. Different times.

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Pi(e) day pi(e) facts: The guy introduced the Greek letter for pi was the father of the guy who discovered proto-Indo-European (PIE)

Linguists are festive AF!

who knew that the future of μάχομαι was so variable!

trying to work out when I'll have the energy and enthusiasm to run an RPG in ancient Greek again.

SeumasU keeps on rolling. New classes in Greek and Latin, starting May: thepatrologist.com/2024/03/08/u...

Upcoming classes in Maythepatrologist.com One of the more tricky things about deciding which classes to offer, is that I have both limited time (absolute) and limited time-slots (relative) in which to run classes. Running from May into ear…

thankful for modern medicine

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I wrote a book! It’s a tiered reading of ethnographic sections from De Bello Gallico. Here’s a sample! Coming this spring from @contubernales.bsky.social!

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As part of work on a Greek vocabulary list and a revamping of vocab.perseus.org planned later this year, I'm putting together a corpus representative of texts typically read (in Greek) by language learners. If anyone has thoughts, pointers to existing work or would like to be involved, let me know.

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Thrilled to announce that @jeltzz.bsky.social was back on the Greeking Out Podcast. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fle...

glad to discover I haven't lost all ability to converse in Greek and Latin over the summer

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I wrote an over-long blog post about my experience learning Ancient Greek over the last 1.5 yrs. Enjoy! amysspires.wordpress.com/2024/01/25/l...

Learning Ancient Greek – A Reviewamysspires.wordpress.com This December I completed a "first-year" Greek course (actually about 1.5 yrs) with Seumas Macdonald (thepatrologist.com). The following is partially a review of his course, and partially a review of ...

Seven (eight?) years after completing a PhD, now taking my first class on research methods

SeumasU entering its 5th year of operation. This is longer than any job I've held thepatrologist.com/shop/

i miss the good side of classics twitter

tfw you read all the suggestions about side hustles and realise that all the ones applicable to you, you are currently main-hustling

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Okay here it is. My nascent Digital Book Arts channel on YouTube. youtu.be/r9urw_RE4FY

Introducing the Digital Book Arts Channelyoutu.be Welcome video for this new channel.

3 weeks until we kick off the new term at SeumasU! Latin and Greek classes for all levels! thepatrologist.com/shop/

SeumasU : Online courses in Latin and Greekthepatrologist.com Visit the post for more.

in 2024 I plan to read less books.