Joseph Romero

Dean of College of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts (CHSSA) at East Texas A&M University. Optimist malgré Voltaire. Opinions my own, of course.

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

You don’t really know an ancient language if you can’t translate into it, and you can’t translate well into Greek or Latin prose or verse unless you grasp how the ancients thought and articulated their thoughts.

It’s a skill that takes a lot of reading, learning, immersion in texts, and observation of style and idiom.

It takes years of hard work, but there’s deep joy in it and at the end of it.

[Joseph Romero @JosephRomero68]

@NewYorker “Fading”? That’s gratuitous.

[Jamie Kennedy @jamierkennedy]

Dream come true.

I just made an albatross hole-in-one to finish my round at North Berwick‼️

270 yards. With my hickory driver.

[Joseph Romero @JosephRomero68]

@henseler72 @fritzfelgentreu @AntigoneJournal This

[Joseph Romero @JosephRomero68]

@Athanasius_45 @rogueclassicist Brave New World: I am here for it.

[Athanasius @Athanasius_45]

The Vesuvius Challenge has finally published its first (fragmentary) digitally unrolled scroll that was carbonized during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Find the paper here: https://t.co/0h1ch3Xpft

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

The Committee of Five—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman—was appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago today.

Jefferson's draft of the document is here at the Library, and will be featured in a new exhibition opening July 3.

[Dovi Safier @safier]

“It was one of the most monumentally unselfish things one group of people did for another.”

-#DDay veteran Andy Rooney on the young 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy 82 years ago.

Required watching for every young person today!

[Joseph Romero @JosephRomero68]

@etamuniversity What a gracious and beautiful gift which we are only too happy to accept. I look forward to its dedication on September 13.

[East Texas A&M University 🦁 @etamuniversity]

The A&M System Board of Regents voted today to officially rename #ETAMU's concert hall as the Cheryl Childers Lewis Concert Hall in honor of a Lion alumna and lifelong music educator.

Read more about the gift and this talented musician at https://t.co/GgsP6rJkFU

[Andrei @TheUntranslated]

This is how you find out that the entirety of Paulys Realencyclopädie is available online

https://t.co/BZlGXhpYtU

[Jean Twenge (author of 10 RULES, GENERATIONS) @jean_twenge]

@eileenduffy https://t.co/3jDtwX9c8b

[Joseph Romero @JosephRomero68]

@eamonlynch Wow. My favorite read each week!

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

Have you studied classical languages? It takes some explaining if you haven’t. Greeks in antiquity themselves found Thucydides a hard read and Pindar often barely intelligible.
One can more or less create a spoken language based on, say, Xenophon, but that won’t be sufficient for understanding Aeschylus’ lyrics only 50 years earlier.
To ‘know’ Greek is to know a changing language and literature across a thousand years or more and spread across the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Asia.
It’s not the same as learning a standard modern language unless, perhaps, you specify a circumscribed time and place, and the dialect in which it was spoken. And then there are disputable matters of idiom (the subject of philological scholarship) as well as meaning to contend with - even “just reading” a text requires that text to be accurately transmitted.

[East Texas A&M University 🦁 @etamuniversity]

The exams, the all-nighters, the study sessions with friends, the memories made along the way: It all leads to this. Congrats, Spring 2026 Lion grads! 🎓

Go out there and be great!

[East Texas A&M University 🦁 @etamuniversity]

#ETAMU officially dedicated a new mural on the south end of the Postal Services Building and Sculpture Lab. Titled "The Power of a Pride," the painting was conceptualized by graduating seniors Sloan Rogers and Cassidy Allarah Steele.

Come by and see it for yourself soon!

[East Texas A&M University 🦁 @etamuniversity]

It's almost time, Lions. Who else can't wait for #ETAMU graduation this weekend?!

#BGWednesday

[Joseph Romero @JosephRomero68]

@eamonlynch You are the best living writer in the field. And you are equal to the moment. Bravo.