Don’t tell me autism didn’t exist in Ancient Greece and Rome, someone had to remember every line of the Iliad and it sure wasn’t Pliny the Neurotypical
I could remember all the basic trigonometry functions, but instead, I remember every lyric to sugar ray’s “fly”
October 29, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Don’t tell me autism didn’t exist in Ancient Greece and Rome, someone had to remember every line of the Iliad and it sure wasn’t Pliny the Neurotypical
The Halloween costume of a friend's kid over the weekend. The war cry is what really makes it work. @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social @dmfwv.bsky.social
November 2, 2026 at 4:22 PM
The Halloween costume of a friend's kid over the weekend. The war cry is what really makes it work. @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social @dmfwv.bsky.social
Achilles (ܐܟܠܘܣ) with a lyre on the right and Patroclus (ܦܛܪܩܠܣ) on the left, scene from book 9 of the Iliad
Mosaic with Syriac Aramaic inscriptions from Edessa, kingdom of Osroene, 3rd century CE
Mosaic with Syriac Aramaic inscriptions from Edessa, kingdom of Osroene, 3rd century CE
November 2, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Achilles (ܐܟܠܘܣ) with a lyre on the right and Patroclus (ܦܛܪܩܠܣ) on the left, scene from book 9 of the Iliad
Mosaic with Syriac Aramaic inscriptions from Edessa, kingdom of Osroene, 3rd century CE
Mosaic with Syriac Aramaic inscriptions from Edessa, kingdom of Osroene, 3rd century CE
and got into the legends of iliad zine. hoo
November 1, 2026 at 6:15 PM
and got into the legends of iliad zine. hoo
Last year they excavated an ancient sunken wreck. The boat had a piece of the Iliad on it. It was just the extensive Catalogue of Ships.
Don’t tell me autism didn’t exist in Ancient Greece and Rome, someone had to remember every line of the Iliad and it sure wasn’t Pliny the Neurotypical
I could remember all the basic trigonometry functions, but instead, I remember every lyric to sugar ray’s “fly”
October 30, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Last year they excavated an ancient sunken wreck. The boat had a piece of the Iliad on it. It was just the extensive Catalogue of Ships.
“Cannibal king, you eat your people up!
You are a leader of nonentities!”
—Iliad, 1:310-311
You are a leader of nonentities!”
—Iliad, 1:310-311
October 30, 2026 at 12:04 AM
“Cannibal king, you eat your people up!
You are a leader of nonentities!”
—Iliad, 1:310-311
You are a leader of nonentities!”
—Iliad, 1:310-311
The only thing that LLMs and Iliad style poetics have in common is they both hate the Theban Cycle
I am sorry. This is techno-obscurantist nonsense thst would be risible if it were not absolutely dangerous.
It is a fundamental misrepresentation of both oral poetics and the creative arts
It is a fundamental misrepresentation of both oral poetics and the creative arts
1. A quick thread to summarize my and Cosma's new piece on LLMs as Homeric songs at the Economist. The piece has its origins in bactra.org/weblog/feral... and this fantastic article by Murray Shanahan et al, which we couldn't link as we would have liked www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 30, 2026 at 2:21 PM
The only thing that LLMs and Iliad style poetics have in common is they both hate the Theban Cycle
Stolen: "You folks do realize that the Iliad and the Odyssey were audiobooks originally, right?"
heh
heh
November 1, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Stolen: "You folks do realize that the Iliad and the Odyssey were audiobooks originally, right?"
heh
heh
October reading... a retelling of The Iliad from the female perspective, an exploration of neo-Luddism, some off-kilter short stories from Cornwall and the second in Alan Moore's brilliant 'Long London' series.
#booksky 📚💙
#booksky 📚💙
November 2, 2026 at 7:17 PM
October reading... a retelling of The Iliad from the female perspective, an exploration of neo-Luddism, some off-kilter short stories from Cornwall and the second in Alan Moore's brilliant 'Long London' series.
#booksky 📚💙
#booksky 📚💙
CapsuleCustoms joins the battle!
Over the next few months I'll be working on my entry for Vol.2 of the Iliad Zine!
My entry is under embargo until early 2027. But I'm excited to get started on it!
Over the next few months I'll be working on my entry for Vol.2 of the Iliad Zine!
My entry is under embargo until early 2027. But I'm excited to get started on it!
🏛️ EMAILS HAVE BEEN SENT! 🏛️
The selection has been done, and emails with the results have been sent! If you can't find it, please check your spam box, since there's a chance it could've been flagged as spam.
Thanks for applying ✨
The selection has been done, and emails with the results have been sent! If you can't find it, please check your spam box, since there's a chance it could've been flagged as spam.
Thanks for applying ✨
November 2, 2026 at 11:37 AM
CapsuleCustoms joins the battle!
Over the next few months I'll be working on my entry for Vol.2 of the Iliad Zine!
My entry is under embargo until early 2027. But I'm excited to get started on it!
Over the next few months I'll be working on my entry for Vol.2 of the Iliad Zine!
My entry is under embargo until early 2027. But I'm excited to get started on it!
From “Xanthus: A Hippiad” by A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social (the Iliad as told by a horse!):
1/4
But that was just the beginning of the trouble, with Agamemnon and the master, Lord Ache-to-Kill, the lord of pain.
1/4
But that was just the beginning of the trouble, with Agamemnon and the master, Lord Ache-to-Kill, the lord of pain.
November 2, 2026 at 3:29 PM
From “Xanthus: A Hippiad” by A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social (the Iliad as told by a horse!):
1/4
But that was just the beginning of the trouble, with Agamemnon and the master, Lord Ache-to-Kill, the lord of pain.
1/4
But that was just the beginning of the trouble, with Agamemnon and the master, Lord Ache-to-Kill, the lord of pain.
I finished reading The Iliad! It was great! Two things that surprised me:
- It was more humorous and brutal than I was expecting.
-I knew the gods were jerks, but I didn't expect this level. Especially from Athena. Pop culture sure sanitized her!
- It was more humorous and brutal than I was expecting.
-I knew the gods were jerks, but I didn't expect this level. Especially from Athena. Pop culture sure sanitized her!
I started reading this and I'm having a great time!
-The translation notes and the intro are great to provide context that I didn't have about this story.
-I guess I now know what was the inspiration behind the text for the intro cutscene of Tactics Ogre (one of my favorite games)
-The translation notes and the intro are great to provide context that I didn't have about this story.
-I guess I now know what was the inspiration behind the text for the intro cutscene of Tactics Ogre (one of my favorite games)
October 29, 2026 at 12:14 PM
I finished reading The Iliad! It was great! Two things that surprised me:
- It was more humorous and brutal than I was expecting.
-I knew the gods were jerks, but I didn't expect this level. Especially from Athena. Pop culture sure sanitized her!
- It was more humorous and brutal than I was expecting.
-I knew the gods were jerks, but I didn't expect this level. Especially from Athena. Pop culture sure sanitized her!
Your day will be like...
a brooding lion, looking out from under its brows at men who come near its young in its forest lair.
Iliad 17.132-7
a brooding lion, looking out from under its brows at men who come near its young in its forest lair.
Iliad 17.132-7
November 2, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Your day will be like...
a brooding lion, looking out from under its brows at men who come near its young in its forest lair.
Iliad 17.132-7
a brooding lion, looking out from under its brows at men who come near its young in its forest lair.
Iliad 17.132-7
I'm sympathetic to the idea here - we should try to figure out how to answer / cultivate this sort of demand - but I'm pretty skeptical of this approach. How much of Moby Dick or The Iliad can you really talk through in 1-2 lectures, especially if doing close reading for the first time?
“At Harvard, students are clamoring for a class that assigns a hefty book a week, requires regular essays, bans digital devices. Humanities 10 drew 180 applicants for just 90 spots this fall. Students expressed urge to be forced to think for themselves in the age of AI."
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ha...
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ha...
October 28, 2026 at 9:59 PM
I'm sympathetic to the idea here - we should try to figure out how to answer / cultivate this sort of demand - but I'm pretty skeptical of this approach. How much of Moby Dick or The Iliad can you really talk through in 1-2 lectures, especially if doing close reading for the first time?
In Greek mythology, Nyx is the primordial goddess of Night, born from Chaos. Hesiod describes her as the mother of Sleep, Death, Doom and other formidable powers. Even Zeus is reluctant to anger her in the Iliad. Darkness has an exceptionally powerful mother. #MythologyMonday
November 2, 2026 at 10:33 AM
In Greek mythology, Nyx is the primordial goddess of Night, born from Chaos. Hesiod describes her as the mother of Sleep, Death, Doom and other formidable powers. Even Zeus is reluctant to anger her in the Iliad. Darkness has an exceptionally powerful mother. #MythologyMonday
The oldest gospel scraps date to the second century, written by people who never met Jesus, decades after he died. And a story being old doesn't make it true. The Iliad is older, and nobody's out here insisting Zeus is real. Michael, a manuscript proves somebody wrote it down.
November 2, 2026 at 2:39 PM
The oldest gospel scraps date to the second century, written by people who never met Jesus, decades after he died. And a story being old doesn't make it true. The Iliad is older, and nobody's out here insisting Zeus is real. Michael, a manuscript proves somebody wrote it down.
I heard recently about an Egyptian mummy buried with a papyrus fragment from the Catalog of Ships, and my first thought was that sounds like a special interest.
arkeonews.net/archaeologis...
arkeonews.net/archaeologis...
Archaeologists Find Iliad “Catalog of Ships” Papyrus Inside Egyptian Mummy | Arkeonews
Archaeologists in Egypt’s Oxyrhynchus have discovered a Roman-era tomb containing mummies with golden tongues and a rare papyrus
arkeonews.net
October 30, 2026 at 7:38 PM
I heard recently about an Egyptian mummy buried with a papyrus fragment from the Catalog of Ships, and my first thought was that sounds like a special interest.
arkeonews.net/archaeologis...
arkeonews.net/archaeologis...
Exactly, he's going as The Iliad. & the idea of going as a book opens up so many great costume possibilities!
November 2, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Exactly, he's going as The Iliad. & the idea of going as a book opens up so many great costume possibilities!
Iliad (Free) sort une offre fibre spéciale maison connectée en Italie
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November 2, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Iliad (Free) sort une offre fibre spéciale maison connectée en Italie
👉 https://l.frandroid.com/HFg
👉 https://l.frandroid.com/HFg
Your day will be like...
an oak or poplar, felled by the carpenter's axe to become a ship's timber.
Iliad 16.482-91
an oak or poplar, felled by the carpenter's axe to become a ship's timber.
Iliad 16.482-91
October 30, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Your day will be like...
an oak or poplar, felled by the carpenter's axe to become a ship's timber.
Iliad 16.482-91
an oak or poplar, felled by the carpenter's axe to become a ship's timber.
Iliad 16.482-91
Crafted From Bone, This 2,800-Year-Old Flute Unearthed in Troy May Have Been Played Around the Time That Homer Composed 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/c...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/c...
Crafted From Bone, This 2,800-Year-Old Flute Unearthed in Troy May Have Been Played Around the Time That Homer Composed 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'
After more than 150 years of excavations, the object is the first musical instrument ever discovered in the ruins of the ancient city, which is located in modern-day Turkey
www.smithsonianmag.com
October 31, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Crafted From Bone, This 2,800-Year-Old Flute Unearthed in Troy May Have Been Played Around the Time That Homer Composed 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/c...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/c...
[in the midst of the battle, comes this]
Dustlight. Far off
A woman with an infant on her back
Is picking fruit.
-Christopher Logue,
War Music: An Account
of Homer’s Iliad
Dustlight. Far off
A woman with an infant on her back
Is picking fruit.
-Christopher Logue,
War Music: An Account
of Homer’s Iliad
October 31, 2026 at 4:04 PM
[in the midst of the battle, comes this]
Dustlight. Far off
A woman with an infant on her back
Is picking fruit.
-Christopher Logue,
War Music: An Account
of Homer’s Iliad
Dustlight. Far off
A woman with an infant on her back
Is picking fruit.
-Christopher Logue,
War Music: An Account
of Homer’s Iliad
Pokemon Iliad & Odyssey
Pokémon Pride & Prejudice
Pokémon War & Peace
November 1, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Pokemon Iliad & Odyssey