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The first temple of Apollo at Delphi was made of branches of laurel; the second of beeswax and feathers; the third of bronze, and was destroyed by the gods when the sweetness of the singing made people forget who they are
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Barnaby Taylor
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Barnaby Taylor
@miserabiliter
Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Oxford. hæc comice dicta cave ne male capias.
England, United Kingdom Katılım Mart 2017
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@AntigoneJournal @DrMichaelBonner One of the great modern translators of Homer, of course
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Peter Green throwing some punches in the 1950s about the state of contemporary Classics, and what he regards to be the straitjacket of traditional language learning.
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making me pay $60 for an OCT only to discover it’s a print to order should be punishable by public flaying
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So good so good so good. Worth dropping everything to read it. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/…
David Wingrave@davewingrave
It's so great. Begun in 1959, I believe still working on it at the time of his death in 2011. Published adapted sections of the Iliad, didn't know Greek, worked from other translations. And the titles! "All Day Permanent Red" so great.
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“This is one of the deep motives for literature, or for art of any sort: that one is defeating the formlessness of the world. One is cheering oneself up [and] instructing oneself by giving a form to something that is, perhaps, alarmingly formless.”
—Iris Murdoch on literature
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Join us today as Professor Christopher Peacocke, Exeter College alumnus and Honorary Fellow, explores how music expresses emotion and why it holds such distinctive power as an artform.
🗓 Today | 🕕 6.00pm
📍 Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
🎟 All are welcome
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reading Plato for the first time and i'm dying laughing cause whenever someone is all, "Socrates, what is justice?" he starts saying shit like, "is a horse not a horse?" or "what's bigger, a city or a man?" and then the guy he's talking to is like "oh fuuuck🤯"
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Look at Comrade Wordsworth over here.
Jeremy Corbyn@jeremycorbyn
Happy birthday Michael Rosen, In the face of injustice, never frozen. A man of peace, a man of history. An international man of mystery!
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Eleanor Crook’s rather astounding memorial to the late Queen, in the Palace of Westminster.
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Only 9% of people in prison have 5+ GCSEs and only 2% have passed 2+ A levels. About 2/3 of adults in prison are functionally illiterate.
Academic attainment is one of the most powerful protective factors.
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Reading Petrarch’s bonkers 12th Eclogue, in which the dastardly Edward III (‘Arthicus’) spots Philip of Valois (‘Pan’) sleeping under a tree, and hatches a not-so-subtle plan to smash his head in. Thence the Hundred Years’ War.
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There are provincial museums full of Victorian tea sets covered in hand-painted, simpering field mice in smocks and bonnets which are less kitsch and played out than this.
TheRealThelmaJohnson@TheRealThelmaJ1
The new Banksy sculpture in London is brilliant
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Pour a big one for all the lads who have spent the last 24 hours furiously arguing that Polanski had a point
Ali Fortescue@AliFortescue
NEW: Zack Polanski apologises ‘Everyone in leadership has a responsibility for lowering the temperature at a time of such tension, and I apologise for sharing a tweet in haste. Police responses to emergency situations such as these do need later reflection in the right forums, but I accept that social media is not the appropriate channel for doing so. I have invited Mark Rowley to meet with me to discuss the police response and the wider issues raised in his letter.’
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@LordThurlow All the rest zonked out from May Day revelry
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If Oxford and Cambridge are forced to allocate applicants to colleges through a central mechanism, one of the increasingly scarce reasons for attending them will be removed
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When you stop and think about it, assisted dying's a bit like salted caramel ice cream or shuffle dancing, because they're choices, too. Or Lynx Africa body spray - use it, don't use it, nobody else's business.
Genevieve Holl-Allen@genevieve_holl
Kim Leadbeater MP has just likened the legalisation of assisted dying to legalising gay marriage On Sky News: 'It is a choice, it's a bit like gay marriage isn't it? Marry who you want to marry, love who you want to love. It's nothing to do with anybody else'
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@CrotserJeremiah @jessesingal A good way to degrade social trust even further would be for us all to start shoplifting
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@jessesingal Maybe so, but there is a good argument to be made for theft from giant corporations when capital has eviscerated all but the final few threads of social trust. The folks on that podcast just didn't make it very well.
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Most poignant thing about the NYT interview is everyone involved is well past their 20s and is desperately trying to tirangulate their opinions on kindergarten-level moral questions so as to not run afoul of the most sociopathic 20-year-old leftists on social media
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📢 Congratulations to Dr Jake Taylor, Supernumerary Fellow at Exeter College, who has been awarded 112.7 hours of observing time on the James Webb Space Telescope to study the emission spectra of nine hot Jupiters.
🔗 Read more: ow.ly/XvvB50YOnBN
#ExeterCollegeOxford
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