January 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
@mythsbaby.bsky.social makes any conversation better
When Science Meets Storytelling, Storylife w/ Joel Christensen
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When Science Meets Storytelling, Storylife w/ Joel Christensen
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Conversations: When Science Meets Storytelling, Storylife w/ Joel Christensen | Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
Let's talk about the virality of narrative.
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April 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
@mythsbaby.bsky.social makes any conversation better
When Science Meets Storytelling, Storylife w/ Joel Christensen
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When Science Meets Storytelling, Storylife w/ Joel Christensen
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Did I pre-order my own book so I could get the dopamine hit of having it delivered the official day of release? Yes I did.
January 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Did I pre-order my own book so I could get the dopamine hit of having it delivered the official day of release? Yes I did.
💫Early Release💫
We sat down recently to chat with Professor Joel Christensen aka Sententiae Antiquae about his forthcoming book Storylife. Out now on early release for our wonderful Patreon supporters 🥳
#AncientBluesky🏺
We sat down recently to chat with Professor Joel Christensen aka Sententiae Antiquae about his forthcoming book Storylife. Out now on early release for our wonderful Patreon supporters 🥳
#AncientBluesky🏺
Early Release - Storylife with Professor Joel P. Christensen | The Partial Historians
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December 12, 2024 at 6:53 AM
💫Early Release💫
We sat down recently to chat with Professor Joel Christensen aka Sententiae Antiquae about his forthcoming book Storylife. Out now on early release for our wonderful Patreon supporters 🥳
#AncientBluesky🏺
We sat down recently to chat with Professor Joel Christensen aka Sententiae Antiquae about his forthcoming book Storylife. Out now on early release for our wonderful Patreon supporters 🥳
#AncientBluesky🏺
“Big book, big problem.”
μέγα βιβλίον μέγα κακόν
#Callimachus
[#Storylife is only 5 chapters....63k words]
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μέγα βιβλίον μέγα κακόν
#Callimachus
[#Storylife is only 5 chapters....63k words]
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Storylife
From Homer’s epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own—and humans may not always control the narratives we create Combining ancient ep...
yalebooks.yale.edu
January 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“Big book, big problem.”
μέγα βιβλίον μέγα κακόν
#Callimachus
[#Storylife is only 5 chapters....63k words]
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
μέγα βιβλίον μέγα κακόν
#Callimachus
[#Storylife is only 5 chapters....63k words]
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Somehow available for pre-order--but no cover yet!
Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things a.co/d/1188Fi0
Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things a.co/d/1188Fi0
Amazon.com: Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things: 9780300269239: Christensen, Joel P.: Books
Amazon.com: Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things: 9780300269239: Christensen, Joel P.: Books
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August 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Somehow available for pre-order--but no cover yet!
Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things a.co/d/1188Fi0
Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things a.co/d/1188Fi0
Introducing Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things
“One of the questions I posed to myself before and after writing this book is how I would answer my own children’s (potential) future question: What did I do when the world was ending?”
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“One of the questions I posed to myself before and after writing this book is how I would answer my own children’s (potential) future question: What did I do when the world was ending?”
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Storylife
From Homer’s epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own—and humans may not always control the narratives we create Combining ancient ep...
yalebooks.yale.edu
January 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Introducing Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things
“One of the questions I posed to myself before and after writing this book is how I would answer my own children’s (potential) future question: What did I do when the world was ending?”
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
“One of the questions I posed to myself before and after writing this book is how I would answer my own children’s (potential) future question: What did I do when the world was ending?”
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
"Communities live or die based on their ability to create compositive narratives that bring them together; this togetherness, however, is often built on degrading, undermining, or dehumanizing others."
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Talking about Homer
A podcast on on Storylife
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April 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"Communities live or die based on their ability to create compositive narratives that bring them together; this togetherness, however, is often built on degrading, undermining, or dehumanizing others."
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Cool thing: friends keep sending me pictures of my book showing up in their mail.
It is sweet.
It is sweet.
January 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Cool thing: friends keep sending me pictures of my book showing up in their mail.
It is sweet.
It is sweet.
"As Christensen points out, we cannot easily distinguish the perverse worldview of school shooters in the USA from an overinvestment in a cartoonish image of Homeric heroics."
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Storylife: on epic, narrative, and living things – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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March 31, 2026 at 8:52 AM
"As Christensen points out, we cannot easily distinguish the perverse worldview of school shooters in the USA from an overinvestment in a cartoonish image of Homeric heroics."
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@thetls.bsky.social features a book review of Provost Joel P. Christensen’s “Storylife” www.the-tls.com/classics/gre... @sentantiq.bsky.social
Ancient narratives bent on survival
True to its title, Storylife offers a series of analogies between Homeric epic and life science. We are told that “like DNA itself … Homeric Greek
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January 6, 2026 at 4:42 PM
@thetls.bsky.social features a book review of Provost Joel P. Christensen’s “Storylife” www.the-tls.com/classics/gre... @sentantiq.bsky.social
💫New Episode - Storylife with Professor Joel Christensen💫
We chat with the one, the only @sentantiq.bsky.social about some of key ideas in his latest book Storylife. What happens when we think about stories as having their own drive to survive? Let’s find out!
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We chat with the one, the only @sentantiq.bsky.social about some of key ideas in his latest book Storylife. What happens when we think about stories as having their own drive to survive? Let’s find out!
partialhistorians.com/2025/01/09/s...
Special Episode - Storylife with Professor Joel P. Christensen - The Partial Historians
What if stories have a life of their own? What happens when we think of narratives as external agents? And why is Homer good to think with?
partialhistorians.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
💫New Episode - Storylife with Professor Joel Christensen💫
We chat with the one, the only @sentantiq.bsky.social about some of key ideas in his latest book Storylife. What happens when we think about stories as having their own drive to survive? Let’s find out!
partialhistorians.com/2025/01/09/s...
We chat with the one, the only @sentantiq.bsky.social about some of key ideas in his latest book Storylife. What happens when we think about stories as having their own drive to survive? Let’s find out!
partialhistorians.com/2025/01/09/s...
the end of this thread, about storytelling, reminds me of @sentantiq.bsky.social new book "Storylife". yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Storylife
From Homer’s epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own—and humans may not always control the narratives we create Combining ancient ep...
yalebooks.yale.edu
May 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
the end of this thread, about storytelling, reminds me of @sentantiq.bsky.social new book "Storylife". yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Last year, I published "Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things" with @yalepress.bsky.social
, partly to address the question of where complex stories like the Odyssey come from if not from individual geniuses
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, partly to address the question of where complex stories like the Odyssey come from if not from individual geniuses
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
December 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Last year, I published "Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things" with @yalepress.bsky.social
, partly to address the question of where complex stories like the Odyssey come from if not from individual geniuses
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
, partly to address the question of where complex stories like the Odyssey come from if not from individual geniuses
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
"People believe in stories thanks in part to basic psychological needs like belonging and a sense of agency. ..
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Talking about Homer
A podcast on on Storylife
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April 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"People believe in stories thanks in part to basic psychological needs like belonging and a sense of agency. ..
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February 18th is audiobook release day for "Storylife:
On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things" from @yalepress.bsky.social offered by @tantoraudio.bsky.social
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On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things" from @yalepress.bsky.social offered by @tantoraudio.bsky.social
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Storylife - Audiobook
by Joel P. Christensen, read by Graham Rowat. From Homer's epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own—and humans may not always control the narratives we create.
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February 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
February 18th is audiobook release day for "Storylife:
On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things" from @yalepress.bsky.social offered by @tantoraudio.bsky.social
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On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things" from @yalepress.bsky.social offered by @tantoraudio.bsky.social
tantor.com/storylife-jo...
So disney is now promoting "storyliving".
I think I need to reach out to them about infringing on Storylife.
I think I need to reach out to them about infringing on Storylife.
April 15, 2026 at 5:16 PM
So disney is now promoting "storyliving".
I think I need to reach out to them about infringing on Storylife.
I think I need to reach out to them about infringing on Storylife.
#podcast The Partial Historians - New Episode - Storylife with Professor Joel Christensen (Sententiae Antiquae) partialhistorians.com/2025/01/09/s... @partialhistorians.bsky.social @sentantiq.bsky.social
Special Episode - Storylife with Professor Joel P. Christensen - The Partial Historians
What if stories have a life of their own? What happens when we think of narratives as external agents? And why is Homer good to think with?
partialhistorians.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
#podcast The Partial Historians - New Episode - Storylife with Professor Joel Christensen (Sententiae Antiquae) partialhistorians.com/2025/01/09/s... @partialhistorians.bsky.social @sentantiq.bsky.social
(7) Talking about Homer - by Joel Christensen
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Talking about Homer
A podcast on on Storylife
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April 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
(7) Talking about Homer - by Joel Christensen
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großartige Szene davor übrigens:
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youtube.com/shorts/x9v56...
First conversation in the car (part 2) #truedetective #shorts
YouTube video by StoryLife 🎥
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June 17, 2026 at 6:27 PM
großartige Szene davor übrigens:
youtube.com/shorts/x9v56...
youtube.com/shorts/x9v56...
Stories and the Snowy Mountain : A Podcast from @partialhistorians.bsky.social and an excerpt from #Storylife
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Stories and the Snowy Mountain
A Podcast, and Some Similes, an excerpt from "Storylife"
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January 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Stories and the Snowy Mountain : A Podcast from @partialhistorians.bsky.social and an excerpt from #Storylife
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