All Things Ancient

Tweeting about the Romans, the Greeks and the Early Christians, their languages, and anything else that comes up. Also tweeting at J_Piekarski.

[All Things Ancient @AT_Ancient]

Uber Reviews for Charon, Boatman of Hades http://t.co/Q0jTBBVZZI via @newyorker

[Jake @jacobkleinman]

“My Mayor is Muslim, my bagel is Jewish, my Christian’s Dior… Knicks in 4”
— unknown poet, early 21st century, the American Northeast

[V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams]

Read it on a train in Germany a million years ago and the other passengers were visibly concerned by how much I was laughing

[Francis X. Rocca @FrancisXRocca]

There is very, very, very little competition in this category (as with most powerful people, who get extra points for even trying), but my pick for “the funniest joke told by a pope” remains the one below.

[Zena Hitz @zenahitz]

ugh

[Megha @megha_lilly]

High school students in Italy: translating Cicero from Latin in class using pencil and paper.
High school students in Canada: write a summary report about Hunger Games (uses ChatGPT)

[Fernando Lillo Redonet @LilloRedonet]

Recuerdo que está disponible en abierto este artículo mío en el libro Textos e imágenes de la Antigüedad Clásica: La didáctica del «cine de romanos» (pp. 127-144):
https://t.co/lgh6ZOmoNv

[Alys Key @alys_key]

George Eliot's brand is so strong that I routinely think George Saunders is a woman

[Philip Bunn @PhilipDBunn]

“I asked chatgpt” “I asked grok” well I asked the oracle at Delphi and she said Socrates is the wisest man in all of Athens

[Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 @HackBlackburn]

Love how this could be about either of the Tom Hollands

[Paul Muad’Dib @trygraptor]

no it’s okay sir i know this 70mm showtime of The Odyssey is sold out, i just have to deliver this very large horse-shaped package to someone inside

[David Rattigan @davidmrattigan]

buying this and then dying immediately and forcing my descendants to finish building it over the next 100 years

[Zack S. ☧ @SkripZack]

I just learned about this book, and walking through the first few chapters, it's been incredibly helpful. I can't believe I never see people discussing this. #AncientGreek

[urbanist slop hq @SlopHq]

in 1916 you could chain together private interurban lines and ride electric rail from new york most of the way to wisconsin. fifteen thousand miles of it nationwide. that whole network existed, worked, turned a profit, and was scrapped inside forty years

[Fr. David Paternostro, SJ @DavidPaternostr]

Say what you will about Suarez, but the man liked an ample index

[Litterae Christianae @litteraechristi]

Trēs abhinc annīs dissertātiōnem meam Latīnam pūblicāvī quā dē argūmentō mihi cārissimō disputāvī: "dē concordiā inter hūmānam et dīvīnam īnstitūtiōnem" apud Petrarcam et Augustīnum. Sī quis eam legere vult, vēnālis est apud tabernam amazōnicam (vinculum infrā inveniētis)

[Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge]

O' course, when I were a lad, we read 50,000 pages each before our shift down t'mine, came up, read another 50,000 pages before us tea, then our father'd thrash us.

[Whit Stillman @WhitStillman]

"This is what happens when they stop teaching Latin in the schools!" - Rose, Damsels in Distress (2012)

[All Things Ancient @AT_Ancient]

@MattGlassman312 They should have had the camera pan over a “no shirt, no shoes, no medal” sign as they walked up.

[Alicia E. Stallings @ae_stallings]

Bookmarking for the poets:

[The Last Great Arrakian Dynasty @cruelsardaukar]

The most famous Schleswig-Holstein banger of all time comes from Lord Palmerston, the dominant player in British foreign policy from 1830-1865:

"Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business – the Prince Consort, who is dead – a German professor, who has gone mad – and I, who have forgotten all about it."