Matthew McGowan

Assoc. Prof. of Classics, Fordham University Bronx, NY

[Matthew McGowan @ClassicsProf]

@paul_jkrause It’s in the Greek, e.g. the successive similes in Il. 12—snow, boundary stones, wool-working woman—there’s nothing even remotely close in Od. This passage alone could make you believe there was more than one Homer.

[Matthew McGowan @ClassicsProf]

@costofglory Aristotle?

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@costofglory Alcibiades-Coriolanus

[Matthew McGowan @ClassicsProf]

@NRO @abigailandwords … the article only shows the author’s ignorance and comes off as rank posturing. Is there anyone—an editor, say— at @NRO who knows Latin and could have stepped in here? I would try learning Latin and sparing us the sanctimony!

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@NRO @abigailandwords The author (@abigailandwords) goes on, “But, if I’m being honest, I don’t care much about their literal meanings.” This is a ridiculous and embarrassing thing for a writer to say, and the article fails b/c it cannot give a single example of non-binary Latin. Further…

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

OK: the interest is clear, so here we go! The All-of-Cicero Give-away could win you the complete works of Tully, in Latin, in 1 vol (printed 1850, since rebound & sturdy). Just retweet this message, make sure you follow us, and a winner will be picked at random on Friday evening!

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@pmarca Yes, everyone can learn to read Latin & Greek!

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@paul_jkrause Cor. 1.1.257: And, were I anything but what I am, / I would wish me only he.

[Matthew McGowan @ClassicsProf]

@zenahitz The Aeneid: Anchises in the underworld in Bk. 6. Also the Odyssey: Tiresias and friends in Bk. 11.

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@GrayConnolly Quam brute bardeque ! O tempora, o mores!

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@TEFranklinos @OrielOxford a well-timed wag can be very effective, but I'm struck by the inscription above: how timely!

[Matthew McGowan @ClassicsProf]

@CanteringClark @a_wandering_dog woof, woof!

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@ubookman St Ignatius Loyola, pray for us.

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@ubookman Well, Bloomsbury is doing an edition of his Virgil LECTURES (1912), edited Francesca Bugliani Knox w/some interpretive essays, including one by yours truly! Should be out by year’s end...

[Matthew McGowan @ClassicsProf]

Registration here, free for students & Fordham faculty: https://t.co/0EdihrbAxi

[Matthew McGowan @ClassicsProf]

Fordham University's 5th annual Biduum Latinum, this year on Architecture, Oct. 24-25. Our workshop on 10/25 offers a nurturing environment for reading (& speaking) Latin: no experience necessary; all levels welcome, even those who just wish to listen! Walsh Library 12-4pm!

[Matthew McGowan @ClassicsProf]

Fordham University's 5th annual Biduum Latinum, this year on Architecture, Oct. 24-25. Our workshop on 10/25 offers a nurturing environment for reading (& speaking) Latin: no experience necessary; all levels welcome, even those who just wish to listen! Walsh Library 12-4pm!

[Matthew McGowan @ClassicsProf]

JBK before Caravaggio’s Calling of St Matthew, San Luigi dei Francesi, ROMA!

[John Byron Kuhner @johnbyronkuhner]

Teaching in Rome... you point out amazing things to students and let the wonder of it all do the rest.

[Matthew McGowan @ClassicsProf]

@johnbyronkuhner The calling of St Matthew!

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@CatharineEdwa Congratulations! So happy this out: cannot wait to get my copy!