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well I guess my dreams take place in the theater of Dionysus now

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ok I absolutely get how the suitors fell for Penelope's shroud ruse for so long. I've been knitting this scarf (much smaller than a shroud) for over a year now and have just now hit the halfway mark.

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I feel like a parody of a graduate student pulling up to campus with my three beverages

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fun byproduct of all my work is that I'm constantly coming up with production concepts for performances of Greek drama that nobody except me would want to see. today I think Euripides' Helen should be done with Helen wearing a mask that's a mirror (and none of the other characters masked)

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breaking new ground with the number of versions of the same text I have open at once

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new cover image for my dissertation prospectus, inspired by the comments I keep getting on my drafts

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PITCH: An updated version of the curse of Cassandra where she's describing things that are happening now, in front of everyone, but still isn't believed.

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if I had a nickel every time a character in tragedy is confronted with a covered corpse and mistakes it for a different character who was played by the same actor (and thus has the same body) as the character whose body the audience knows the corpse really is…

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at any given moment I'm only one and a half articles away from listening to bird noises and trying to understand how fifth-century Greeks heard them. today, tragic nightingale similes. tomorrow, who knows.

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might have to hang this over my desk next to the "Historians Admit To Inventing Ancient Greeks" printout

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just when I thought I had a handle on what "forestays" are, you're telling me that πρότονοι actually means "halyards" here???

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ah yes ship parts, the bane of the classicist.

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I still think about that 10th book of Herodotus that I had access to in a dream once

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chanting "real person, human being, speak to a representative, customer service" at the phone like it's a spell that works with a certain number of repetitions

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in lieu of a written dissertation, I will be submitting a series of Russian nesting dolls in the form of ancient theatrical masks. this is the body and the self on the tragic stage.

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Almost ready to start writing - just need to quickly read everything that has ever been, or will ever be, documented about this topic

submitted 73 days ago • 21 comments

I'm just saying, it is very funny that Heracles does exactly the same incredibly hubristic thing that got Asclepius killed, but he just says "no phthonos" afterwards and it WORKS

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showing up to the Homeric tradition ten minutes late with the horses of Rhesus I got at Starbucks

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copy and pasting the plagiarism section from the previous lecturer's syllabus

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2024 @jstor.bsky.social wrapped just dropped

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it’s that time again

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going to the British Museum and shaking my head the whole time so the people in the galleries know I disagree with it

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Orestes: if you kill a killer, the number of killers in the world remains the same Electra: kill two

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I think... I think an entire chapter of this monograph was constructed around a pun

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Social Media must be overthrown and replaced by Social Persia, which will in turn be conquered by Social Macedonia.

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thinking about using the term "tragedy+" to make it clear that I acknowledge the genre-weirdness of Alcestis and am explicitly including it anyway

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Koine Greek? Nah man I want that rare shit. The absolutely unintelligible Greek. The mutually-incomprehensible Greek. The one-hand-clapping Greek.

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if I finish writing this talk then I can speculate about which roles Aeschylus himself played in the Oresteia. as a treat.

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I've mistyped "metatheater" enough times just in the last few days that I'm now committed to figuring out how to use the term "meat-theater"

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this is what I've been up to while inactive on here btw. I'm a Eumenides fan now.

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in other news, I've been reading too much about metatheater in Philoctetes and now I'm pretty sure it's Neoptolemoi all the way down

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Achilles: Please, Mother, let the leopards eat the faces of all the Greeks! [Patroclus, Achilles' BFF, gets his face eaten] Achilles, full of grief and fury: Mother! I never thought the leopards would eat HIS face.

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trying to make a renewed effort to be active on here

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my new favorite argument about the 'three-actor rule' for greek tragedy is that (at least in the 4th century) it couldn't have been common to have more than three actors, bc otherwise demosthenes would have absolutely called aeschines a tetragonist or something

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I think it may have been a mistake to try to become a Zotero person. I can now spend two hours chasing citations and adding articles to my reading list instead of reading the book right in front of me and still feel like I've accomplished something.

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ok i think i have a new favorite tragic fragment and it's this, the only thing we have of aeschylus' iphigenia

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watching filmed performances of greek tragedy done with masks like why are the cameras zooming in to do close-ups of their faces

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it will never not be funny to me that odysseus begins the apologoi by introducing himself with "hi my name is odysseus, son of laertes, and i'm a liar"

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You want me to self check out? The thing that killed Narcissus?

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once again stuck in the time loop (endlessly rewriting the paper about achilles getting the narrative stuck in a time loop)

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I am no longer interested in asking whether Antigone or Ismene is the older sister. what I need to know now is whether Creon or Jocasta was the older sibling.

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