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The bow is in Odysseus’ hands! Suitors beware... #hchomerathon

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A scar reveals all in #hchomerathon

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⁦@haverfordedu⁩ emeritus Aryeh Kosman tries to set Arete’s suspicions to rest #hchomerathon

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Odysseus has reached Phaeacia, a princess, and a queen. #hchomerathon

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Weeping, opiates, stories of the war, and shapeshifter. This is Sparta in Odyssey 4 #hchomerathon

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@HSilverblank wraps up Book 2 #hchomerathon

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This year's Classic Marathon at Haverford College (the 13th annual!) is just over a week away! Come and listen to a few minutes or a few hours of Homer's Odyssey--or join into the epic festivities by reading a passage!

When: Wednesday, Oct. 3 @ 9:30 am
Where: VCAM Lounge

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The Simpsons and Elementary Greek grammar go well together.

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The rebuilt Bridge vocabulary tool is up at https://t.co/9mzqtUVegk ! Most the the changes are under the hood but here's a 60-second video tour of new features: https://t.co/FilMRijySz #latin #greek #classics #dh

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ECCE classics students! Look at this awesome work being done in classical reception!

What are your favorite classical receptions in television?

Prof. Silverblank obviously votes Star Trek Voyager as Odyssey, but there are countless wonders out there! https://t.co/3v0BR1GXOV

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Join Professor Silverblank's virtual summer book club if you want to read some exciting pieces of classical reception! #crsbc

Just finished: Madeline Miller's Circe, Melissa Broder's The Pisces.

Starting today: Jeremy Reed's Boy Caesar https://t.co/jcAvMb37jM

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Bittersweet close to Elementary Latin. We laughed along with a student's song promoting Latin, heard a recitation of Heroides 7, and read Horace, Odes 3.30. Valete, Discipuli!

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In honor of May the 4th, how about a epic Latin treatment by Alexis Hellmer!

DE BELLO SIDEREO LIBER I
Sidereum canimus bellum quo fulgidus aether
flagravit, tum caelivagas naves, decus aevi...

https://t.co/NGUX9PqbHO

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My tirones had their run of my Latin Lending Library today (arranged from "Quid Edam?" to Hobbitus Ille).

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Festa Ventimolinualia @haverfordedu! (Happy Pinwheel Day!)

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Who cries more: Odysseus' crew, or our Homer class, upon reading about all the animal deaths in the Odyssey? We were particularly devastated when Odysseus sacrificed Polyphemus' #1 best buddy (Lil Ram Jam) to Zeus last week, and we're still dealing with the loss. #teachancient

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Our sophomore Classics student Oliver Hughes has been doing some Very Serious Prose Composition. #teachancient https://t.co/R1rQsdZYBm

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TONIGHT: the 13th annual ORALiTEA, featuring students and faculty reading and performing favorite bits of Greek and Latin aloud! Pigs, lions [Plutarch's Gryllus!], ghosts [Odyssey 11], oh my! 7:30pm-9:30ish, VCAM!

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We used some of Dr. Rankine's thought-provoking writing as a jumping-off point to discuss racially charged translations of Greek words (such as Αἰθίοψ), which sit in the dictionary and perpetuate very particular scholarly stances on ancient Greece's relationship with blackness.

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In Elem. Greek @HavCollClassics this morning, we discussed Patrice Rankine's “Black is, black ain’t: (Re)imagining Greece, Rome, and Race through Ralph Ellison, Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka."

#teachancient #ancientgreek