DCCommentaries

Dickinson College Commentaries: digital commentaries on classical texts. Chris Francese, project director, tweeting.

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@NoCaparison Maybe there is an analogy with politics?You have dogmatic and bloody-minded extremists on both sides who feed off conflict with each other. Then there are insightful people who do not fit the standard categories.

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This is well-written, but a bit like neglecting a neighborhood park and then complaining that it attracts undesirables. Professional Classicists should engage in the platform rather than hiding on Bluesky.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

One might expect this community of untutored but enthusiastic fans of Greek and Roman history and culture to have rejoiced at the chance provided by social media to access specialist scholars and their expertise directly. Quite to the contrary.
https://t.co/c4XquHEWMV

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@NoCaparison There is definitely some of that, maybe a lot. I also encounter it in real life among academics but try to tune it out and seek out more interesting voices.

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@theo_nash The algo is part of the problem, but it is also true that irl most people engage with antiquity on a basic level, and inflammatory takes tend to thrive on all platforms.

[Cambridge University Press - Classics @CambUP_Classics]

Out now! Kelly’s Homer: Iliad Book XXIII | An up-to-date commentary aimed at undergraduates and graduate students, focusing on language, meter, style, and literary interpretation.
Find out more: ☑️ https://t.co/bTXI8bRkVw
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[Gregory Crane @PhilologistGRC]

With treebanks integrated to this evolving Perseus6, I consulted the analysis of @FrancMambr as I read Sophocles on the early morning beach. Thanks for @jtauber for the inline treebank viz concept. Evolving work: https://t.co/D9zvrUpl6L

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@RobertTalisse Or you could say, he’s obviously talented but I don’t care for that style of guitar playing. Too many notes.

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The ghosts of Latin and French inhabit LLMs in the form of a bias towards words with Romance roots over Germanic ones. Orwell is up in heaven stamping his foot.
https://t.co/aQ4uRmpnpF

[Eléønøra @EleonoraFall]

Indeed, this is how French were taught in "elite" classes.

[Dominic Sandbrook @dcsandbrook]

Thanks for the great suggestions for The Book Club! Here's what's up next:

9 June THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
16 June THE CODE OF THE WOOSTERS
23 June LITTLE WOMEN
30 June A GAME OF THRONES
7 July THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
14 July THE LEOPARD
21 July CIRCE

https://t.co/vVuOwM6UMP

[stubborn octopus 🦑✨ @AtlasNarratives]

Delphi - Greece, 1956

📸 Lionel Kazan for Elle

[Gregory Crane @PhilologistGRC]

We have the mechanics for translation alignment starting to appear. Automatic alignments are disappointing for now but you can see how we can show aignments: https://t.co/akOIY640XV

[Gregory Crane @PhilologistGRC]

Even as bots take down our Perseus sites, we are working on serverless versions. Here is one such effort that now has basic treebank support (and commentary). Lots of rough edges but progress. https://t.co/Ajyz8cf80P

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@AntigoneJournal “Dicotyledon”?

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Such a good book. I seem to remember that he conceived it while on jury duty. He had a lot of downtime and just read the Iliad from cover to cover in Greek and conceived it.

[Dr. Valerie @drvalerieisin]

I’ll never forget the first time I sat down and read this book — it opened up a new dimension of the text (and even influenced my reading of Aeschylus’ Erinyes).

Αἰωνία ἡ μνήμη.

[হিমাদ্রি চ্যাটার্জী Himadri Chatterjee @hairygit]

Since reading The Odyssey, I’ve never - not even once - sacked a city.

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The focus on prizes suggests that, like many humanities-in-crisis pieces, this one is worrying about the loss of _prestige_ for the subject, not its actual decline as an activity. Philology is so rich now it’s impossible to keep track of it all. Gratulor me denique natum.

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

Excellent to see the Antigone Philology Prize mentioned as a best-in-show contest in this sparky @newcriterion article: https://t.co/EjhabYs7v0

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@JaycelAdkins This is the Aetia only.

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@JaycelAdkins We have an edition and translation by Prof. Susan Stephens (Stanford), freely available https://t.co/dRMfuDMn9P

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Agreed. Lombardo is also very performable, written to be performed.

[Daniel Mendelsohn @DAMendelsohnNYC]

A Homer translator whom I’ve always admired is Stanley Lombardo. Although his versification is far terser than mine, he manages to get the essence of each Homeric line. It’s very biting, very bracing. I reviewed his Iliad in 1997 for @nytimesbooks

https://t.co/Dy5BgLiNSH