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10/14/2024

10/01/2024

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06/20/2024

A post on some recent AI approaches to Homer: One says Iliad 10 is an outlier; One says it Isn't. Both see each epic as more or less unified. Plus: Some evidence for textualization!

Looking at the Results of LLM Analyses of the Iliad and Odyssey

06/20/2024

A great guest post from Joe Goodkin on his years of touring and performing songs from the Iliad and Odyssey

A reflection on almost 400 Odyssey shows across all 50 U.S. States and More In book 9 of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus famously recounts the story of how he came across Polyphemus the cyclops, who trap…

11/02/2023

The Stoicism Renaissance, Medieval Tattoos, Historical Q***r Icons, and More

06/05/2023

"How much do we possess just because others have them, or because most people do!"

Quam multa autem paramus, quia alii paraverunt, quia apud plerosque sunt!

Seneca, Moral Epistles 123.6 “We don’t realize how many things are silly unless they start to seem lacking. We have been using them because we possessed them, not because we needed them…

08/19/2022

"I want to get drunk and dance.
I want to douse myself in perfume and play
With handsome men
And pretty women too.”

μεθύων θέλω χορεύειν,
μεμυρισμένος τε παίζειν
[μετὰ τῶν καλῶν ἐφήβων]
μετὰ καὶ καλῶν γυναικῶν.

Anacreonta 38 “Let us drink wine happily And toast Bacchus with songs, That inventor of choral performances, The lover of all music. He shares the life of the Loves- Kythera loves him too Dru…

08/18/2022

Did you catch the episode of the Peopling the Past podcast featuring our very own Dr. Caitlin Gillespie?

Listen in as Dr. Gillespie talks about Boudica, the fierce leader of the Brittonic Iceni tribe who led a revolt against the Romans. We find out who she was, possible reasons behind the revolt, economic and cultural life of the Iceni, and identity in late Iron Age and Roman Britain!

On this episode of the Peopling the Past podcast, we are joined by Dr. Caitlin Gillespie, who talks to us about Boudica, the fierce leader of the Brittonic Iceni tribe, as well as economics, cultur…

05/31/2022

Read this issue of the journal Science et Esprit on Érudit. Discipline: Philosophy, Theology.

02/10/2022

Some seasonal material from our faculty

A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of love and war, conveys about the pleasures and dangers of desire.

02/03/2022

Congratulations Joey! We can’t wait to watch Jeopardy! next week! 🎉👏💪

Out of more than 26,000 applicants, Joey Kornman ‘23 was among the lucky few selected to compete in this year’s Jeopardy! National College Championship.