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And the baby is just now appearing in Spanish!

My Talking Classics book comes out this week from Chicago press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

@agameganon I love your stuff & wear them all the time

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@ATSociety Great news!

The FDA will fast‑track its review of Intrabio’s potential AT treatment, with a decision possible by Sept 2026. If approved, it would be the first treatment for AT. It will still need UK approval, but US progress could help speed things up here too. atsociety.org.uk/intrabio/

@FlintDibble @Graham__Hancock @joerogan Ha!

Who is the liar Graham? @Graham__Hancock Because I've got emails that clearly document your red-handed lies right here. They emailed you and you chickened out. Graham Hancock lacks integrity and testicular fortitude Hey @joerogan your buddy is a liar and a coward

@wmarybeard I'm sure they will be happy to have you 😊

My slightly anxious preparations for giving a commencement address (students can be harsh critics) the-tls.com/regular-featur…

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What in the iliad or the Odyssey should we fight about today?

we need a larger sample size and @sentantiq input

Now reading: “Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire” - P.J. Kosmin A study on one of the most novel inventions of the Seleucid dynasty: the creation of the Seleucid Era, the world’s first continuous linear calendar, inspiring the Christian Anno Domini and Islamic Hijri

Dionysos Riding on a Panther, floor mosaic from the building known as the House of Masks in Delos (Greece, the Cyclades). It dates to roughly 130-88 BC, which is the late Hellenistic period. The figure riding the panther/leopard is Dionysus, the god of wine. He's holding a tambourine (tympanon) in his left hand and a spear-tipped thyrsus in his right. I think Dionysus is depicted here with somewhat feminine or androgynous lines. Why? Just look at the details of his clothing and his delicate facial features, for example. The reason for this (though I should note it's a subject of debate) is as follows: Dionysus isn't just the god of wine; he's also the subverter of the status quo and the established order (the boundaries). Because of this, the inversion of gender roles can be an important key to understanding the Dionysian world. *Csapo's 1997 article, 'Riding the Phallus for Dionysus', is a helpful read here.* Getting back to the mosaic: the exact species of the animal is debatable. The safest label for this mosaic is a leopard/panther. Frankly, we don't know whether the artist who made this mosaic - a native of Delos or someone working there - had ever seen a live leopard or panther. But I don't think it's accurate to say that the Greek world only knew this animal as a figment of their imagination during the late Hellenistic period. The leopard/panther had been an established motif in Greek art since much earlier periods; plus, during the Hellenistic age, the Greek world was part of extensive contact networks reaching across Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, and all the way to India.

My new book in Dutch. And US edition is out on Thursday from University of Chicago Press

A 19-year-old Oxford student in 1900 would have read: — Homer — Virgil — Thucydides — Xenophon — Plato — Aristotle — Sophocles — Horace — Tacitus — Cicero Likely in the original Greek or Latin. Today, many elite graduates struggle to finish a book they weren’t assigned. Why did schools abandon the classics?

The fun thing about Homeric scholarship is that this also functions perfectly as evidence that Book 24 is late. ‘There’s still more to say! Let’s extend it just a bit…’

The 800-year-old gold engagement ring belonging to the medieval Serbian King Stefan Radoslav.