Mischa Hooker

he / him

[Mischa Hooker @pseudepigraphon]

@theo_nash Clearly (couldn’t resist) one of them is intended to reflect φαίνομαι + participle (“is manifestly”) as opposed to φαίνομαι + infinitive (“appears to be”). That must be the explanation.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The war with Iran has been a complete victory for the United States, except in the sense that we haven't achieved any of our objectives.

[Mischa Hooker @pseudepigraphon]

@DCComm “round some spring” — “or round the altar”…

[Mischa Hooker @pseudepigraphon]

@DCComm Ah — I think convoluted maybe is the issue, as I see it here.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Having failed to whip up a patriotic frenzy against the Islamic Republic of Iran, I really do not think MAGA is going to succeed in getting people excited about a pointless conflict with Canada.

[Mischa Hooker @pseudepigraphon]

@ArmandDAngour @aleabritta See e.g. Burgess, The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle https://t.co/Kt8KNZ977t: “Although … the Cycle poems as we know them are later than the poems of Homer, the tradition that they represent is not only old but also independent of the Homeric tradition.”

[Mischa Hooker @pseudepigraphon]

@DCComm I would feel better if Hermitsh press revealed that there were humans with a suitable level of independent expertise involved in the editorial process. What quality control is there? Not transparent, and not prima facie trustworthy.

[Mischa Hooker @pseudepigraphon]

@Nemo61204 @RubenZorian @SketchesbyBoze πάθει μάθος

["Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux]

Got out to see Christopher Nolan's take on the Odyssey.

Fascinating movie, but to use a metaphor - it is a remix, not a cover; it has its own themes and ideas.

Which is fine - folks have been remixing Homer for basically the whole of the western literary tradition.

[John Ma 🌊🌊🌊 @Nakhthor]

Ancient history professor here. Um, it is not the case that there is more evidence for "elements of this history" than the massive literary, documentary and archaeological evidence for Alexander III of Macedon.

Also: ha ha ha !

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

Not remotely true. There is a lot of Latin missing from the Loebs and OCEANS of Greek missing. These are texts that have acquired a significant reputation and often get read in translation, minus various special categories and especially excluding most Christian texts, because an earlier age decided they weren’t Classics.

[Sydney Freedberg @SydneyFreedberg]

The learned translate as best they can; the monolingual read what they must.

[Nikos @nchlsswft]

But are you old enough to remember Teubner shaming? νῦν μοι χάνοι εὐρεῖα χθών.

["Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux]

So this is going to go over RHG's head, but it's a useful point to make: how does a classicist go about digging deep what a word *means* in a given context, or what it might mean? Even to dispute a dictionary?

It turns out that we have an established method for this! 1/

[Mischa Hooker @pseudepigraphon]

@sccarlson @drdaveyoon So then, people *don’t* say “syntactical”

[Mischa Hooker @pseudepigraphon]

@sccarlson “Prestige” effect favors “syntactic”? But not absolutely?

[Mischa Hooker @pseudepigraphon]

@SWGoldman False assumption in the way it’s set up — that people *prefer* a more creative style of writing. Counterpoint: Bestseller lists going back forever.

[Mischa Hooker @pseudepigraphon]

@cd_hooks “Mistakes like these”?!?! Dystopia is here.

[Mischa Hooker @pseudepigraphon]

@iosif_lazaridis @NancyRPearcey Agreed