Jeff Peterson

@sentantiq When is Diomedes going to get his movie?

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

@neontaster The fundamental question is whether this year's movie will have the staying power of the original epic. I care fairly little about the rest of it.

I've come around to not caring about this because the Odyssey is a fantasy story, not a historical epic. Plenty of movies set in modern times feature technology we don't actually have right now. No reason to not apply that logic to fantasy that was written in the past.

@ZaidJilani Susan Collins has an unbelievable electoral history of outstripping expectations, so I would not be quick to judge her campaign by a PAC ad in April.

If they have nothing but Reddit comments and tattoo meme that has been everywhere, then I don't think Susan Collins's campaign is going great because those stories were duds.

@EduardHabsburg You could not be more mistaken. It was always more junk food than Michelin dining and should be evaluated on that basis. Also: its sword fights raised the bar notably higher for everything to follow. And no love for the thousand side characters with quippy lines?

🔥CONTROVERSIAL TAKE🔥 Just rewatched HIGHLANDER after literally DECADES by proudly showing it to my son, and to my great embarrassment I found it was NOT the brilliant epic I remembered, but: Slow paced. Flashy. Clunky. Gaudy. Pedestrian sword fights. Barely noticed the Queen music. It is elevated a little when Sean Connery or Clancy Brown are on screen, but other than that, as Monty Python says in a sketch.... "whole thing's a bit silly." What, oh what was 1986 me thinking?? And what do you think?👇

@marthagimbel okhistory.org/publications/e…

Wait so “oh what a beautiful morning” is a lie?!

@SonnyBunch Methos That is all.

Fine but the TV series kicked ass for at least four of the six seasons so it evens out.

@LauraRbnsn visitthecapitol.gov/artifact/messa….

Checks and balances were a good idea but unfortunately Gen. George Washington could not have conceived of a class of man more useless than the modern American senator.

@NancyRPearcey sententiaeantiquae.com/2020/03/25/rom…

How the New Testament changed the ancient view of marriage: "To appreciate how unique the biblical view of marriage is, we need to set it against the ancient Greco-Roman culture into which the early church was born. In the ancient world, sexual promiscuity and homosexuality were both socially accepted for men. The purpose of a wife was to have legal heirs, but it was expected that men would have sex with prostitutes, mistresses, concubines, and, most of all, slaves -- male and female, adults and children. Demosthenes famously said, “We keep prostitutes for pleasure. We keep mistresses for the day-to-day needs of the body. We keep wives for the begetting of children and for the faithful guardianship of our homes.” Pagan society did not expect emotional intimacy between husband and wife. Most marriages were arranged -- not for love but to advance the family’s financial and political interests. Wives were often very young at the age of marriage; child brides were common. The Greek historian Plutarch reported that Romans “gave their girls in marriage when they were twelve years old, or even younger.” Their husbands were usually twice as old. As a result, wives were less mature, less experienced, and less educated than their husbands. Under these conditions, not surprisingly, husbands and wives often had little in common. Men held their wives in low esteem. Divorce (by husbands) was widespread. Since it was thought acceptable for men to have sex outside of marriage, a wife had no recourse if her husband committed adultery. The Roman statesman Cato declared, “If you catch your wife in adultery, you can kill her with impunity; she, however, cannot dare to lay a finger on you if you commit adultery. It is the law.” In this historical context, the Christian view of marriage was nothing short of revolutionary. At its core was a new form of sexual equality. To the shock of the ancient world, both sexes were held to the same moral standard. Christianity condemned promiscuity among men as well as women. It stood out as radically different because it taught that a husband actually wrongs his wife by committing adultery. Jesus said, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her” (Mark 10:11). Such evenhanded treatment was genuinely novel.... Finally, in contrast to the surrounding Roman culture, husbands were commanded to actually love their wives -- to “nourish and cherish” them (Ephesians 5:29 ESV). Carrie Miles of Baylor University writes, 'Note that the kinds of behavior Paul advocated here were far from being typical male roles. The Roman man was expected to be virile, dominant, and “macho.” “Nourishing and cherishing” were not typical “guy” behaviors in the first century.' The New Testament writers were calling for a transformation of the marriage relationship that would eventually change the world." --Love Thy Body

@LauraRbnsn It was a mess, and it also got a LOT of parents involved on levels they had never been before. People that just sent their kids to school and never worried about it were asking “what’s going on??” It’s not even a vax issue—just families suddenly worried about educational delivery

*I also want to be clear I'm not saying that that means it wasn't traumatic. EVERYTHING about COVID was traumatic and missing three months of school broke a lot of kids' hearts, especially graduating seniors.

COVID memory is weird. Can someone name a school district for me that did exclusive E-learning from March 2020-March 2021? Or longer? I've lived in 3 states since 2020 and every district I've encountered was back in person in fall 2020. E-learning persisted in cases where

@LauraRbnsn I believe LA, Houston, and Chicago were all remote to start fall 2020. The situation nationwide was dynamic and in many cases chaotic. You’re right that probably few school districts were remote for an entire year but it’s still not easy to dismiss the depth of student disruption

to be in school in person in fall 2020 and that option was not available because of the district.

@DrFrancisYoung But they look so very, very good on the shelf….

The reality is that some of the translations are quite outdated, and it’s not that good for students to work with facing translations anyway 📕📗

@grahamscheper Wow...a thought-provoking piece. I find the metrical argument (that as an poetic exclamation it would mess up the stress pattern in some instances) quite persuasive. It's bracing to think how much doubt remains in interpreting past versions of our own language.

Beowulf begins with the word "Hwæt" ("What"). It's one of the most iconic openings to any poem, its conjectured role as a 'call to attention' is a well-known fun fact shared by fans of ancient literature and English history... It's also (in my opinion) completely wrong. For a while now, scholars have been drawing doubts over this 200-year-old interpretation, and more recent scholarship has suggested more cautious translations than "LO!", opting more for something like "truly," or "well,". I side with @gwalkden , however, who in 2013 demonstrates quite convincingly that even a comma after is inappropriate. The word is probably not an interjection at all (at least not in the context of Beowulf line 1a)! His article is here: walkden.space/Walkden_2013_h…

@EsotericCD Also bought the collection in HS but had not heard about the speed issue before...curious what you think about this: elijahwald.com/johnsonspeed.h…

Well, here is the same recording, played at the speed it was actually recorded. People have been hearing Johnson incorrectly - due to the wonkiness of mechanical recording technology in the '30s - ever since: youtube.com/watch?v=_JKS3j…

I bought this boxed set in high school (a rite of passage for music scholars) and thought "hey, why does this guy sound all high-pitched and tinny?" and only found out decades later that all of these recordings are being played at the wrong speed and need to be slowed down.

@bendreyfuss The Dubliners is a deep cut but something the internet suggested to me…and I’m still processing “The Dead.” Lose the girl, embrace the Joyce.

she was way older than me and is almost 50 now but i'm sure she's still beautiful. she was a cradle robber, though. But, now, I'm a cradle robber. life comes at you fast.

this is such a cute photo. we look so happy lmao.

@KobeissiLetter NY Fed consumer survey tomorrow

Key Events This Week: 1. January JOLTS Job Openings data - Tuesday 2. EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook - Tuesday 3. February CPI Inflation data - Wednesday 4. Initial Jobless Claims data - Thursday 5. February PPI Inflation data - Thursday 6. MI Consumer Sentiment data - Friday We are now 10 days out from the March Fed meeting.

@iowahawkblog youtube.com/watch?v=vbddqX…

The Patty & Selma March

@chrissteinplays And presumably completely forgot your email address?

I felt so much safer for the nine hours that China couldn't see my email address

@DurhamBulls Fairfield, CT. Two years earlier. todayincthistory.com/2024/08/14/aug…

First in Flight

@iowahawkblog youtube.com/watch?v=thNWwG…

You'd all be dying at this material if you were 87 years old

@washingtonpost "prophecy"

Former pastor and Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has pressed, along with other evangelicals, a bond with Israel rooted in biblical prophesy. If confirmed, Huckabee will be the first evangelical in the Israeli ambassador role. wapo.st/4gd3v0G