Antiquity Curated, Modernity juxtaposed. Translations from Ancient Greece and Rome. "Glorious Nerds."
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Oct 8, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
"The papers are either sound or they aren’t."
I think this is a fundamental and disingenuous characterization of how scholarship functions and what its aims are
chronicle.com/article/Schola… via @chronicle
just because something gets published does not mean it is 'right' or 'good'. It means it has passed some minimum litmus test of 'quality' to become part of a conversation.
Over the past few days as we have made many tweets with clear political messages and added some posts of the same character, we have had a more than a few followers complain about political content (1/10)
Many of the complaints were similar to last year's demands that we stay unpolitical or face unfollowing.
Over the past day—and indeed for months and weeks—I have been watching and involved with arguments dismissing “postmodern approaches” to classics #ClassicsAndTheoryRant (1/15)
This argument is political. “post-modern” is a catch-all phrase for many different approaches which are dismissed by conservative traditionalists #Classicsandtheoryrant (2/15)
Sep 10, 2017 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Dream account on twitter: animal noises in various languages.
Dogs say αὖ αὖ in Ancient Greek.
Frogs, Βρεκεκὲξ κοὰξ κοάξ
