As an erstwhile classicist this thread delights me
My favorite trick or treat story of all time:
I was in middle school trick or treating with a friend in a not-too-busy neighborhood.
A guy answered his door, and said “I’m so sorry, I just moved to America. I didn’t know about this, and didn’t buy candy, but I have something I can give you!”
I was in middle school trick or treating with a friend in a not-too-busy neighborhood.
A guy answered his door, and said “I’m so sorry, I just moved to America. I didn’t know about this, and didn’t buy candy, but I have something I can give you!”
November 3, 2026 at 1:10 AM
As an erstwhile classicist this thread delights me
Is every #EpiDoc project, publication and tool in the world included in this list? wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Category:Epi...
Category:EpiDoc - The Digital Classicist Wiki
wiki.digitalclassicist.org
November 2, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Is every #EpiDoc project, publication and tool in the world included in this list? wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Category:Epi...
classicist considering quietly condoning her husband cheating:
🎼 i might let you make me juno 🎵
🎼 i might let you make me juno 🎵
November 2, 2026 at 11:16 AM
classicist considering quietly condoning her husband cheating:
🎼 i might let you make me juno 🎵
🎼 i might let you make me juno 🎵
Glass, Irony & God is perfect for that double perspective. The classicist and poet sides illuminate each other.
November 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Glass, Irony & God is perfect for that double perspective. The classicist and poet sides illuminate each other.
The Tennessee Titans have a player named Dike (pronounced in correct ancient Greek) and my Classicist brain hurts.
November 3, 2026 at 3:16 AM
The Tennessee Titans have a player named Dike (pronounced in correct ancient Greek) and my Classicist brain hurts.
Stare right into the eyes of people who lived 2,000 years ago. Discover how Hellenistic realism, Roman engineering, and ancient wealth converged in the stunning Fayum mummy portraits.
#Classicist #RomanHistory #AncientArt #FayumPortraits #History
#Classicist #RomanHistory #AncientArt #FayumPortraits #History
Gazing Through Time
Realism, Wealth, and Immortality in the Fayum Portraits
classicstutor.substack.com
November 2, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Stare right into the eyes of people who lived 2,000 years ago. Discover how Hellenistic realism, Roman engineering, and ancient wealth converged in the stunning Fayum mummy portraits.
#Classicist #RomanHistory #AncientArt #FayumPortraits #History
#Classicist #RomanHistory #AncientArt #FayumPortraits #History
Mary Beard offers ‘glimpse of humanity’ in Ancient Rome
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/whats-on/mar...
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/whats-on/mar...
Mary Beard offers ‘glimpse of humanity’ in Ancient Rome
The well-known classicist is bringing her latest touring show, ‘More Secret Histories of Ancient Rome’, to the Cambridge Corn Exchange.
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk
October 30, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Mary Beard offers ‘glimpse of humanity’ in Ancient Rome
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/whats-on/mar...
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/whats-on/mar...
i feel super dumb and out of date reading ancient greek papyri
i like that stuff but no company asks for a classicist
i like that stuff but no company asks for a classicist
October 31, 2026 at 3:57 PM
i feel super dumb and out of date reading ancient greek papyri
i like that stuff but no company asks for a classicist
i like that stuff but no company asks for a classicist
I often wonder what Thanksgiving is like with his sister Donna, classicist, academic, and author of Not All Dead White Men.
Of course they thought about completely ruining an academic’s life
Meta Considered a 'Whisper Campaign' to Discredit Its Biggest Critic, Court Documents Show
Easier than fixing the problem, apparently.
gizmodo.com
October 28, 2026 at 8:22 PM
I often wonder what Thanksgiving is like with his sister Donna, classicist, academic, and author of Not All Dead White Men.
You can’t take your eyes off him any second he’s on screen, even smaller early parts, like in Excalibur and I, Claudius.
October 29, 2026 at 8:15 PM
You can’t take your eyes off him any second he’s on screen, even smaller early parts, like in Excalibur and I, Claudius.
Something I cling strongly to is that, much like every Classicist thinks that the discipline started dying just before they joined it, every member of Starfleet does the "remember when we used to be explorers?" at literally every era of Starfleet.
October 29, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Something I cling strongly to is that, much like every Classicist thinks that the discipline started dying just before they joined it, every member of Starfleet does the "remember when we used to be explorers?" at literally every era of Starfleet.
(Disclaimer: I am not a classicist nor particularly educated on Ancient or Mythical Greece beyond what I've read in the past few months. This is just my opinion; if I got anything egregiously wrong please let me know and I will amend that opinion in short order.)
November 2, 2026 at 9:16 PM
(Disclaimer: I am not a classicist nor particularly educated on Ancient or Mythical Greece beyond what I've read in the past few months. This is just my opinion; if I got anything egregiously wrong please let me know and I will amend that opinion in short order.)
Listen in to a discussion on Instant Classics of classicist, poet and Nobel Laureate, Anne Carson podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
Exploring Anne Carson
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 22 October · 1hr 2min
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October 27, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Listen in to a discussion on Instant Classics of classicist, poet and Nobel Laureate, Anne Carson podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
Just encountered "gnoseology" which, in context, seems to just mean epistemology (from an early 20th century French classicist, basically, from the root gnosis instead of epistemē)
Rhetorical question: Who talks this way?
Rhetorical question: Who talks this way?
October 28, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Just encountered "gnoseology" which, in context, seems to just mean epistemology (from an early 20th century French classicist, basically, from the root gnosis instead of epistemē)
Rhetorical question: Who talks this way?
Rhetorical question: Who talks this way?
“ @twhittermarsh.bsky.social —a classicist at University Of Cambridge …offers a compelling answer in his new book, Rome’s Age of Revolution: Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity. To wit, Christianity took much of its shape from the cult of Augustus, first emperor of Rome.”
A Cult Grew Around the First Emperor of Rome in 27 B.C. A New Book Argues His Followers Might Have Created the Template for Christianity
Augustus was seen as a descendant of the gods who would go on to redefine authority. New research posits that his rule paved the way for Jesus
www.smithsonianmag.com
October 30, 2026 at 11:20 AM
“ @twhittermarsh.bsky.social —a classicist at University Of Cambridge …offers a compelling answer in his new book, Rome’s Age of Revolution: Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity. To wit, Christianity took much of its shape from the cult of Augustus, first emperor of Rome.”
You young rapscallions change the names of everything these days. I’m a classicist, dammit! It’ll always be shithole to me!
October 29, 2026 at 10:25 PM
You young rapscallions change the names of everything these days. I’m a classicist, dammit! It’ll always be shithole to me!
It does make me think back to this episode of the Last Word about classicist Pat Easterling. When asked what was the point of classics, @wmarybeard.bsky.social recounts that Pat answered ‘it teaches you to read difficult things’. Maybe we need to lean into that more?
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Last Word - Dolly Parton: From the Smoky Mountains to Glastonbury Legend - BBC Sounds
Also, journalist Dierdre McSharry, Professor Pat Easterling and rugby's Sir Billy Boston.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 29, 2026 at 8:48 AM
It does make me think back to this episode of the Last Word about classicist Pat Easterling. When asked what was the point of classics, @wmarybeard.bsky.social recounts that Pat answered ‘it teaches you to read difficult things’. Maybe we need to lean into that more?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The last 6 retirements in my partner’s department have not been replaced. Now there is one classicist (in a religion and classics department). They can’t run with just one—especially with requiring at least 5 majors/year. Not enough majors=close department
November 2, 2026 at 8:15 PM
The last 6 retirements in my partner’s department have not been replaced. Now there is one classicist (in a religion and classics department). They can’t run with just one—especially with requiring at least 5 majors/year. Not enough majors=close department
As I said, I haven’t read the Economist piece yet (claiming that modern AI is “best understood as a technological version of the Homeric songs that inspired Alexander’s conquests” will be red rag to various classicist bulls…), but your blog does a much better job of explaining your actual argument.
October 31, 2026 at 6:28 AM
As I said, I haven’t read the Economist piece yet (claiming that modern AI is “best understood as a technological version of the Homeric songs that inspired Alexander’s conquests” will be red rag to various classicist bulls…), but your blog does a much better job of explaining your actual argument.
Went to a local bookstore earlier to get something I ordered from them. While there I spied this on a shelf. I know and have used classicist Anne Carson in my scholarship and teaching, so I figured it was a good day to get some Nobel Laureate Anne Carson.
October 31, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Went to a local bookstore earlier to get something I ordered from them. While there I spied this on a shelf. I know and have used classicist Anne Carson in my scholarship and teaching, so I figured it was a good day to get some Nobel Laureate Anne Carson.
I see you are a classicist!
October 26, 2026 at 8:05 PM
I see you are a classicist!
I’m a Classicist. My “non-fiction” includes historical sources which put the destruction of one of the greatest civilisations down to “sea peoples”.
I also dabble in hidden homosexuality.
This is the only kind of non-fiction that should be considered for good reading 🤣
I also dabble in hidden homosexuality.
This is the only kind of non-fiction that should be considered for good reading 🤣
October 29, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I’m a Classicist. My “non-fiction” includes historical sources which put the destruction of one of the greatest civilisations down to “sea peoples”.
I also dabble in hidden homosexuality.
This is the only kind of non-fiction that should be considered for good reading 🤣
I also dabble in hidden homosexuality.
This is the only kind of non-fiction that should be considered for good reading 🤣
Classicist toddler parent achievement (?): realizing I can now host a triclinium solely out of foam Nugget couches
October 26, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Classicist toddler parent achievement (?): realizing I can now host a triclinium solely out of foam Nugget couches
Oh dear... I'd misread crime and graffiti as a single word - crimegraffiti! and started to wonder what new Classicist shenanigans you were going to spring next on the world.
(Have a great trip and a good evening!)
(Have a great trip and a good evening!)
October 28, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Oh dear... I'd misread crime and graffiti as a single word - crimegraffiti! and started to wonder what new Classicist shenanigans you were going to spring next on the world.
(Have a great trip and a good evening!)
(Have a great trip and a good evening!)