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theonash.bsky.social
Classicist and Archaeologist. PhD student IPCAA, MA and BA Victoria University of Wellington.
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‘But those were small things: a sixteenth-century member of the college, dropped in the first court now, would be instantaneously at home. And we felt it. However impervious one might be to the feeling of past time, there were moments when one was drugged by it…

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Sigh — another bridge…

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Sometimes, life is good.

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Not much text yet, but substantial progress has been made on ‘unrolling’ Scroll 5: open.substack.com/pub/scrollpr...

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Harshest critic.

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‘For Tolkien fans put off by a stream of ersatz offerings, from Amazon’s Rings of Power to the animated War of the Rohirrim, The Collected Poems offers up the pleasure of Tolkien’s creativity unalloyed.’

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It’s me! Come along on March 12th to hear about the trainee scribe at Mycenae who just can’t get the dative right!

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The state of archaeology: excavations completed in 1950, no major publications until the 1990s, and significant work is still needed in the 2020s.

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I do enjoy Bluesky, but the iPad experience is… a little bit wanting.

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Deeply saddened by the news of Arthur Pomeroy’s death. He was the cornerstone of the Victoria University Classics Department for many years, an excellent teacher, and a warm, avuncular figure. He will be sorely missed.

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AIA/SCS bound — hope to see some of you there!

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Twitter is once again alight with Odyssey Discourse (TM). No matter how we sideline Greek and Latin, Homer never seems to go anywhere: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Twitter is once again alight with Odyssey Discourse (TM). No matter how we sideline Greek and Latin, Homer never seems to go anywhere: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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The cold was a result of the colossal eruption of Mt Tambora in 1815, leading to the ‘Year Without a Summer’ in 1816. This also gave the colour to the sky in Munch’s Scream and inspired Byron’s Darkness.

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My Christmas pome from last year, with thanks to @readliberties.bsky.social

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At risk of being a terrible pedant, the entire point of the Ring is that it cannot be resisted: even Frodo failed and was spared only by an act of grace. Tolkien would later connect it with the Lord’s Prayer: ‘Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.’ Frodo was tempted and delivered.

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The 10 Anti-Commandments, by the eminent ancient historian Ronald Syme. (Proceedings of the British Academy 84 [1994], p. 543.)

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Glad to see the goofy stuff has made it over here too.

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Sunset shelfie.

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A useful review of the New Documents in Mycenaean Greek by @annapjudson.bsky.social: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2024/2024.12...

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I still believe that ancient Greek and Latin actually *are* hard for native speakers of English; that learning Greek and Latin actually *is* necessary for most serious work in ancient Greek and Roman history; and that to insist on this is *not* "gatekeeping." But I am open to counterarguments!

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Just how am I meant to work under these conditions?

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