Tom Geue

Striving to make bad Latin poetry interesting to ever fewer readers. All views an awkward assimilation of that LRB article. Vulgar marxist. Mullet on horizon.

[Tom Geue @TomGeue]

My book on Sebastiano Timpanaro is now out!

Timpanaro was one of the great intellectuals of the post-WWII European left. He made a host of expansive contributions on materialism, classical philology, Leopardi, Freud, and linguistics

https://t.co/GEwwBVFkg7

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Need the Pope to release an encyclical against Teams calls

[Tom Geue @TomGeue]

Come join our dream team at the Centre for Classical Studies at ANU! We got a level A associate lecturer role open to those with a right to work in Australia. Closing date 25 May. https://t.co/9PR0Tt4rQQ

[Alex Colston @enoughformethx]

On Wednesday evening, over 600 nautical miles from their own country, the Israeli Navy violently boarded our ship that was sailing with the Sumud Flotilla in international waters. The Israelis said they would shoot us if we didnt stop the boat and give them conrol. They evebtually seized 21 ships and kidnapped over 180 people.

While they kidnapped us, they physically harrrased and beat us, as they stole our phones, money, and clothes. When i asked if we were being detained and why, i was told "i dont speak English."

The Israeli Navy intercepted 21 vessels altogether, and then took us to a Frigate, which was outfitted with shipping containers where we were forced to live the past two days. Israeli forces kept us in stress positions throghout, under floodlights. They fed us once with bread. Israeli forces took away some people one by one to beat and torture them; the Israelis dislocated the shoulder of a person on my ship, beat the face of a captain to a pulp, and gave severe concussions to at least two people.

I dont have a phone or money, but this is my update for now.

[jon repetti @pourfairelevide]

I think everyone involved in this project should go to prison

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

Our great Crusader mission to open the Strait that was open before the war; un-sanction Iranian oil, thus reducing oil prices to 2x their prewar level; & restore the popular legitimacy of the Islamic Republic—for the low price of a few hundred billion $ & many thousands of lives

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

How about taste?

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Was the bombing legal? no. but was it moral? also no. did they anticipate the Iranian response? not really. but did they at least manage their alliance relations? again no.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The US slaughtered all of those Iranian schoolgirls.

Shame on all those who claimed it wasn't the aggressors responsible.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

Nearly 10 million people have effectively been subjected to a poison gas attack. And all with European support. A heinous act, historical evil

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

I don’t think you understand how catastrophic the oil refinery bombing in Tehran is.

Burning petroleum releases sulfur and nitrogen oxides that mix with rain to form sulfuric and nitric acid, essentially turning rainfall toxic.

When Saddam burned Kuwaiti oil wells in 1991, the fallout contributed to what became known as Gulf War Syndrome, with veterans developing chronic illness and cancer decades later.

The difference now: this isn’t a desert battlefield, it’s a city of 10 million people, most of which women and children.

[Tom Geue @TomGeue]

Email me on [email protected] if you want to participate - will send you a copy of Ben's draft chapter to read in advance

[Tom Geue @TomGeue]

Our inaugural Studio for Critical Antiquities event is coming up fast - Tuesday 17 March 18.30 New York time, Wednesday 18 March 9.30 Sydney time. Pumped to host Ben Radcliffe on his current project, 'Sensing Labor in the Iliad'. Details here: https://t.co/xz07Iu4t8O

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

Shortsighted decision to cut classical languages at u of Iowa. Petition here. https://t.co/5o5XreOlBN

[Critical Antiquities Network @CritAntiquities]

The 2026 Critical Antiquities Workshop kicks off this Wed morning (Sydney time) with Sara Brill’s paper, ‘“From the womb of capital itself”: Commodity Fetishism, Reproductive Fantasy, and the Use of Birth.’ For more details and to register, go to: https://t.co/kpBU1cwtkF

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

There needs to be a far, far stronger presumption against violence in international politics. It’s insane that leaders barely feel the need to make a moral, legal, or prudential case for bombing human beings.

[Tom Geue @TomGeue]

Join us online for Page Dubois' lecture tomorrow - should be a riot!

[Critical Antiquities Network @CritAntiquities]

The Critical Antiquities Public Lecture is back in 2026. On February 24 (US/UK) or 25 (Australia), Page Dubois (UC, San Diego) will give her lecture entitled, 'Blind Spot: Marxism in U.S. Classics.' More details at our website (https://t.co/xXQ0g2rwIF) and in the attached flyer.

[Tom Geue @TomGeue]

Thanks to the Leverhulme Trust and the Australian Research Council for funding this research, and here's to feeling out the proportions of this 'Elephant in the Study' in every way possible https://t.co/0sK9AdZqew

[Tom Geue @TomGeue]

Chuffed to have an essay out in the new issue of Representations, 'The Enslaved Muse: Apostrophe and Authorship at Rome'; accessible via this link for 30 days
https://t.co/vSEiiEXzMf

[Tom Geue @TomGeue]

I stand convinced that the dependence of Latin literature on enslaved workers has huge implications for literary history, the history of authorship, and the history of world slavery - and this is the first of what I hope will be many attempts to work through those implications