Dr. Nick (Wagner)

Assistant prof. of Latin and Greek; Cicero, Roman religion, and Roman identities. For fun: movies and TV, sometimes music.

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Had a great time at the World of Dylan ‘23 (giving a paper on Lucretius and Dylan) before heading over to the Center.

Fun times in Tulsa.

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I’m most surprised that 2037 is only 14 years from now!

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Was recently listening to Elvis’ That’s the Way It Is, and on a few tracks, between songs, he talks about Gatorade. Stopped me cold.

[Drew Savicki @DrewSav]

You think of Picasso as someone who lived such a long time ago but he died in 1973.

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A lot of people are telling on themselves here…

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Oh no. What happened to the king of Pylos?

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Justice for Widows! Such a smart movie. Top to bottom great work.

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@jackdaw_writes Do it so we can have our marble profile pics in peace again

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UMN’s Art History Faculty Statement on Recent Events at Hamline University | Art History | College of Liberal Arts https://t.co/gCOJTXUGWJ

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@AniseKStrong That’s fair! I’ve only heard the soundtrack myself.

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This is 100% true (and I’d add things like Hadestown). Not many of my students start with, like, the Iliad. We have to be willing to engage with them on their level before getting them to “the good stuff.” Plus, some of that stuff is great too!

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Thread:

Come for the Passion of the Christ 2 jokes.
Stay for the (correct) “actually the original Apes movies rule” take. Just finished my own run through them. Let’s see Christ time travel to the 70s!

[b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie]

The Passion of the Christ
Beneath the Passion of the Christ
Escape from the Passion of the Christ
Conquest of the Passion of the Christ
Battle for the Passion of the Christ

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One more time for those in back:

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It's that time of year, when we all pretend to be President Obama and share our favorite music, movies, TV shows (I know he skips this one) from the year.

Here are mine:

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For the YouTube people:

https://t.co/wSccP7zHJH

[Dr. Nick (Wagner) @nickrwagner]

It's that time of year, when we all pretend to be President Obama and share our favorite music, movies, TV shows (I know he skips this one) from the year.

Here are mine:

[Dr. Nick (Wagner) @nickrwagner]

And now music:

https://t.co/aWL9F13RsB