James Moore

Teacher. Cynic. Classical Epicurean. Social Liberal. Weighs in on politics, classics and nerd culture.

[Dr Marchella Ward (always 'Chella') @LuxMea]

Out today! Including a chapter by me and one of my favorite people on this little globe 🌎 about how and why people make monsters out of each other 🐉💚

[Dr Simon Trafford @TraffTweets]

Purchased these three books yesterday from the Hellenic Bookservice in Kentish Town, all for £20. Bargain.
#ClassicsTwitter

[Selena Wisnom @LSWisnom]

Look what just arrived … out 31st October and also available open access!

[Nissehatt @hekwoys]

“So there’s no vowel elision before words like εἴκοσι or ἄναξ?”
“That’s right Joe. There’s a digamma there, beautiful letter, like a W, it stops that horrible elision, nasty business. Those awful Athenians, they can’t pronounce it, but Homer could, it affects the meter.”

[Jennifer Ingleheart @sapphicapuella]

The news that Leiden are ending all bachelors degrees in Latin is a terrible blow for #Classics - there is such a long and distinguished history of the subject there. Also awful to see other humanities subjects treated in this way.

[Georgy Kantor @GeorgyKantor]

This would be an insane policy: arts, book publishing and scholarship are massive strengths of the UK. To allow (mostly California-based...) AI enterprises to 'scrape' their work is not just immoral and philistine, but an act of monumental economic self-harm.

[artofmarza @artofmarza]

THEY’RE HEEEEEERE

[Shoni Lavie-Driver @ShoniBLD]

I have submitted my PhD thesis on ‘Language in Roman Caesarea Maritima’!

[Peter Sarris @peter_sarris]

My copies of the UK paperback of Justinian have arrived - looking good (and with a few small corrections). Out next month!

[Carla Hurt @FoundnAntiquity]

Here's a🧵 about what trying to learn an indigenous language taught me (Latin teacher by trade) about language teaching and how we ought to value language diversity.
So, I'm a Latin teacher, I teach a ‘dead’ language that everyone makes fun of for being ‘dead’. (1/19)

[Zack S. ☧ @SkripZack]

This is insane. A full audio reading of the Iliad and the first 7 books of the Odyssey in meter, with poetic diacritics and a rocking drum beat. Check all the boxes at the top and then click on the 1st line. #ancientgreek
https://t.co/xh6bpXT64y

[Alden Jones @aldenejones]

Yes, college students have lost their ability to read. I have taught lit for 24 years; the threshold started to decline in the late aughts and nosedived during Covid. A thread with observations + how I get my students to read ALL (or at least most) of the reading I assign: 🧵

[Luka Ivan Jukic @lijukic]

This book is like five books in one (well over 1000 pages) but that does make it so beautifully rich and rewarding. Can't recommend it enough for anyone interested in European history in general. Truly the most readable extremely deep dive into Austrian history out there.

[Chapps @chapps]

I never tire of viewing the famed bronze ‘Boxer at Rest’ at the #PalazzoMassimo in Rome. This one work of art - a Hellenistic Greek original, perhaps inspired by the work of Lysippos - feels the most human. Tired, beaten, bloody, scarred, and mortal.

2nd c.-1st c. BCE

📸 me

[Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan]

Thrilled to see this magnificent new translation of Strabo’s Geography by Sarah Pothecary @princetonupress. A huge honour to have been asked to write the foreword.

[Chapps @chapps]

From the new excavations in #Pompeii - a fragment of a ceiling fresco showing a wayfarer in a Nilotic scene. Lots of frisky Dionysiasts, I think. Wonderful gilded statue in a shrine at the top. But what is on the right?

1st c. CE. Pompeii (IX 10, 1).

📸 me

[Cosi’s Odyssey @CosisOdyssey]

highlights from an ODYSSEUS-THEMED THEME PARK 🎢🗺️ #theodyssey #classicstwitter #classicsx #odysseus #greekmythology

[rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist]

Ok ... hear me out on this... we can really make good use of gladiator 2 if we've learned the lessons of social media . So here's what I've learned from my over three decades in this mileu.