Clara Shaw Hardy

Professor of Classics at Carleton College; I work on performance of drama in Athens and Rome; I love skiing, walking, whisky. So far I’m sticking with X…

[Clara Shaw Hardy @ShawHardy]

Hey folks -- my article on @kamilashamsie's Home Fire has just been published in Classical Receptions Journal! I'm excited as it's my first foray into reception stuff. You can find it here https://t.co/w4fce2zciU if you subscribe; if you don't and want to read it DM me!

[Alexandra Petri @petridishes]

if you’re in lion, STAY IN LION

[Clara Shaw Hardy @ShawHardy]

Unsurprisingly I love this idea. Have been pushing it for faculty governance for a while now but no takers even at a tiny scale! https://t.co/mGd0qg4MaA

[Clara Shaw Hardy @ShawHardy]

@vintagehistoria Nothing like axe heads all over your tote to get you some respect!

[Clara Shaw Hardy @ShawHardy]

@MagisterConway @ArmandDAngour lol that's a good one.

I was just having this conversation (not the Plautus one, the immo one) with students: I had said German doch rather than French si, but it is weird to me that English has nothing better than "yuhHUH" for this

[Clara Shaw Hardy @ShawHardy]

Exciting new method of grading Latin mid-terms just dropped: I have arranged them in ascending order of legibility. Why did I not think of this years ago

[Clara Shaw Hardy @ShawHardy]

@ArmandDAngour Are they going to dance the choruses too?? That's what I've always wanted to see: metrical singing and dancing. Film it for posterity!

[Clara Shaw Hardy @ShawHardy]

I love this so much -- had never heard this story

[Michel Lara @VeraCausa9]

The ancient Greek proverb "He must be either dead or teaching school" (Ἤτοι τέθνηκεν ἢ διδάσκει γράμματα) in Latin Aut mortuus est aut docet litteras goes back to the Athenian general Nicias' failed campaign in Sicily during the Peloponnesian War as recorded in Erasmus' Adagia:

[How Many Days Until Mel Brooks Turns 100? @BrooksTurns100]

It's midnight in Georgia...the moment we've been waiting for!

Jimmy Carter is now officially 100 years old!! 🥳

Happy birthday, Mr. President!!! 🎂  @CarterCenter

[Clara Shaw Hardy @ShawHardy]

This is the best Carleton story I'd never heard about https://t.co/xoHQtdaECs

[Clara Shaw Hardy @ShawHardy]

@ae_stallings Lol I have just been sorting through all the negating negatives in a Cicero passage with my befuddled students

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

Net Favorable Opinion Of:

Ancient Athens: +44%
Roman Empire: +30%
Ancient Sparta: +23%
Roman Republican: +26%
Carthage: +13%
Holy Roman Empire: +7%
Persian Empire: +1%

Visigoths: -7%
Huns: -29%

YouGov / June 6, 2024 / n=2205

[Clara Shaw Hardy @ShawHardy]

@ArmandDAngour I can imagine it's love-it or hate-it, but I thought it got better and better, and the last two episodes especially I thought were great. But if it's not for you, it's not!

[Clara Shaw Hardy @ShawHardy]

Hoo boy just saw the final episode of KAOS -- how long do we have to wait for the next season?!?

[Clara Shaw Hardy @ShawHardy]

@Vicky_Austen Also: "do I want this woman to be feminine singular or masculine plural?"

[Clara Shaw Hardy @ShawHardy]

TIL Smyth identifies something called the "plural of modesty" for when people refer to themselves in the plural (often in tragedy). WTF?? What is "modest" about this?? People just do that all the time in tragedy!

[Clara Shaw Hardy @ShawHardy]

Genuinely amazing however (sorry I just couldn't stop) is that §1009 reveals that in tragedy when a female character refers to herself in the plural *the subject can be masculine plural* (check out the example from the Alcestis):

[Clara Shaw Hardy @ShawHardy]

Also it is funny that two sections earlier you have the "plural of majesty" lol make up your mind