Ben Gregson

PhD Comp Lit (Harvard). BA Classics and English (Oxford 17-20) MA English (Penn 21-22). Thouron Scholar. Interests: Caribbean, Antiquity, Time

[Ben Gregson @BenDGregson]

As a matter of fact, there is as much that is edifying, broadening, and refining in a cabbage as there is in a page of Latin
— Booker T. Washington

[Ben Gregson @BenDGregson]

@AntigoneJournal Reminds me of the funeral inscription in both Latin and Palmyrene found at South Shields to Regina, a formerly enslaved British woman, by her husband, Barates. Fascinating.

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

The ultimate business venture is to alienate the public from something to which they had open access, to commodify it, declare ownership of it, and then sell it back to them. Printed books may become the bottled water of the 21st century...

[Dr Charlotte Gauthier @FaraiUnVers]

Daniel Craig, history department edition: modernist, early modernist, medievalist.

[Ben Gregson @BenDGregson]

Pleased to have delivered my first conference paper on the New Epic Modes Panel at the 15th Celtic Conference in Classics in Cardiff last week.

Great to make new connections, reconnect with old friends, and get feedback on my research. Excited to continue my work!

[Ben Gregson @BenDGregson]

Delighted to learn that not only was Cicero erstwhile known as Tully, but that at least to one John Dolman (1561) he was also simply known as “Mark”

[James Warren @JIWarren]

Petition to make all edited volumes have as their cover a photo of the editors posing elegantly in coordinated outfits, as illustrated perfectly here:

[Stephen Hopkins @phil_lol_ogist]

Awful day today... I had two volumes of historical linguistics in my car. Someone broke in and left two more.

[Ben Gregson @BenDGregson]

@LewisPRoberts @miserabiliter Why not “surprisingly” to add some spice

[Ben Gregson @BenDGregson]

@rhetorician I use Mint when I’m in the US, but had a great experience just recently with https://t.co/K1AMwJ1Uec

[Ben Gregson @BenDGregson]

“Any man who campaigns for a public office is disqualified for all of them”

More’s Utopia

[Ben Gregson @BenDGregson]

@oliviastowell Old Spice “look at your man now look at me”

[Lily @lily__herd]

I reviewed a very funny novel about the lengths you should go to to save a Greek play in this week’s @TheTLS

https://t.co/76u0QWnm34

[Jamie Pei, PhD @heyjamiepei]

It's a mistake to think that the only wins in the #PhD worth celebrating are the big flashy events - submission, acceptance, awards.

Here are 30 other wins in the PhD you might think are "no big deal" 🧵

#phdlife #phdchat #academicchatter #academictwitter #phdtips

[Eduardo García-Molina @eduardo_garcmol]

“Yas king”
- Boring
- Enforces autocracy
- Leads to royal corruption and vice
“Yas co-consul”
- Dynamic
- Enforces camaraderie
- Leads to the ability to veto each
other’s choice for takeout, fostering
discussion.

[Colin Gorrie @colingorrie]

The best part about reading Ancient Greek is the fact that I can ???? almost every ???? that I ????, whether it’s about the ???? or it ???? ???? to ???? with ????. Truly ????!

[Ben Gregson @BenDGregson]

@ashleyrattner I thought @CelineDebourse had a pretty good one in the course we did last semester, though I don’t know if anybody actually used any AI tools or how useful they would have been

[Dr Alecto Hardwick @AlexHardwick95]

uh oh nobody tell Fukuyama

[Barnaby Taylor @miserabiliter]

Taught Petronius today for first time in a year or so, good lord what a text

[@edithmayhall @edithmayhall]

Link to register online for our @Durham_Classics conference in darkest December, https://t.co/RLWaDla2Ab with fabulous speakers not just on Dido but Cassandra, Andromache, Lavinia, Camilla...@sapphicapuella @SpiralColumn @zira_magdalena @HelenEastman @PDJSwallow @DrOBaldwin