David Shutt

B.A. @UMClassics and @UMichLing.
Ancient Greek. Minimalist marathoner. PhD student in Hebrew Bible @csrelharvard
Nemo theologus nisi philologus

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@mrdavidrowe From Greenland’s Icy Mountains

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@andrewhwaller Correlation or causation

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@pjgurry I can't believe I haven't seen this before!

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@latinedisce Unde?

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@ArmandDAngour For the record, some of us prefer the term 'Michiganian'

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@ArmandDAngour I Loeb it.

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@Stefftaving I thought Achilles meant a tendon in the lower leg. The implications are fascinating.

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@byistra The Author’s Apology is under appreciated

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@smehorn Lovely

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My therapist says I should stop thinking about it as the Synoptic Problem and instead see it as a Synoptic Opportunity.

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@alfarojoshua3 You’re only confirming my fear that I am doomed to writing good enough papers the week before the deadline. I thought it was only done in coursework.

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@simonsbookclub αὐτῶν γὰρ σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλοντο,
νήπιοι, οἳ κατὰ βοῦς Ὑπερίονος Ἠελίοιο
ἤσθιον· αὐτὰρ ὁ τοῖσιν ἀφείλετο νόστιμον ἦμαρ.
(Od. 1.7–1.9)

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@MarcoManasseh @Stefftaving I'm aware. This line does seem to though: ἐμὸς- γόνος- πολύπονος- ὃς

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@ArmandDAngour Nothing could signal the collapse of western civilization more poignantly.

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@TimothyALeePub The Cyclops bit is always good, but his trip to Hades is really interesting. One of those two.

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@sentantiq Recs for passages to work on? We never had to memorize in undergrad but I would like to start

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@alfarojoshua3 In a word: wut

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@jhaugan @ChrchCurmudgeon And so are you