Rob Groves

There's an open "Letter of Solidarity with the People of Palestine" which has been circulating and which many people in my field have signed. This letter (which was written shortly after the 10/7 attack) says a lot of problematic things, but I want to focus on one paragraph.

@MelissaKAFunke @Tophocles Just seen on the streets of Tucson the other day. I was like “WTF?!?” And forced Hector to tailgate them for a sec so I could snap a pic. I too would love to know more.

@wisclassic @Tophocles This is incredible amd I must know more immediately.

In the words of @Tophocles, it's Phryne Day!

@whatsuptucson Come see Reveille Men's Chorus' holiday show "Seasons Screenings" at the Leo Rich (TCC) for fun, silliness, and beautiful choral music to kick off the holidays! You can go ice skating beforehand! reveillemenschorus.org/product/screen…

From my DMs: "Good evening brother. Hope all is well 🙏🏾 First off gotta give you kudos for running such a great & informative page! My girlfriend and I wanted to do something fun/romantic here in Tucson this weekend and I was wondering if you had any great suggestions? Much appreciated! 🙏🏾"

@SkibinskiConnie An "A" translation demonstrates clear understanding of the flow of ideas and has no (or few) major mistakes in understanding of constructions. Vocab is almost always accurate, and usually sensitive to this particular passage. Errors rooted in morphology and few and inconsistent.

@SkibinskiConnie This is somewhat different at different levels but my usual approach is to determine a holistic rubric. e.g.:

Grading the final translations for Latin B and I'm curious what people's process is for grading extended translation passages. I tend to begin with the assumption of full marks and then deduct for any mistakes, but I'd love to hear how others go about it #ClassicsTwitter

How fucking dare you say this. How fucking dare you. Palestinians have confirmed that it was Israel that bombed the hospital. Those doctors stood yesterday amongst their martyred patients saying it was Israel. “Independent verification” bullshit you are complacent right now in

@MagisterConway Completely agree on both loving it and the "unnatural latinity" (but as the ph and y would suggest, it's really a Greek loan "word." ) in a Greek play :-D

I just discovered the Latin word "phȳ!" and I love it: - it's so weird-looking for Latin that it looks somehow unnatural - it's an example where the Classical pronunciation /pʰyː/ is clearly superior to the Italianate pronunciation /fi/ - I can translate it with Yiddish ("Feh!")

also, because I created the account a while back, I have several invite codes if anyone still needs one.

Decided I should finally get myself off this site, or at least get that other one up and running. Now also at thelgo.bsky.social (Follow me?) But also where's that Classics social media spreadsheet?

@iota_subscript @NathanielSKatz Or... best? (no, worst.)

Unexpected consequences of having taught Latin 101 4x in the last 12 months: I have now memorized what page of Learn to Read Latin has the chart for deus—it's page 12, if you were wondering. That's got to be each class's least favorite noun, at least until the 3rd declension.

@AliceAvizandum @duckyaisha To say nothing of the "significantly increased risks" possibly magnifying small effects. If your chance of dying from a heart attack at age 40 is 0.25% and it doubles to 0.5%, that's not *good* but it's also not all that bad, all things considered.

don’t care + worth it + if you eat ultra processed food or smoke or go outside or experience cell division you can’t talk to me about risk of deadly conditions

@Linguacene FWIW, This has been the trend in the gay men's chorus movement as well. The trick is balancing the desire for queer- and male-centered spaces and group identity, with real/radical inclusivity. We now explicitly have cis women in addition to trans and nb/gender queer folk.

@andykinzler right?

New Indo-European language dropped?!

@NathanielSKatz Thank you!!!

@wisclassic msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

I could have sworn I saw everyone on #ClassicsTwitter post and repost an article called something like "What men think about when they're thinking about Ancient Rome" (in response to the Trend). But I can't find it. Did I hallucinate it or can someone pass me the link?

@rogueclassicist Thanks! I'll dig back through just in case. Now why do you have to be so prolific?! :-p

@wisclassic Ive posted several such items over the past few days but none with that title

Y’all, it’s the forbidden lion preposition. And yes, I made this.

OTD in 2020 we performed Euripides' Electra as part of #RGTO with @HellenicStudies @sentantiq @AncGreekHero youtube.com/live/n5WMycjcu… all 62 RGTO episodes: out-of-chaos.co.uk/greek-tragedy @apgrd @classicsforall @wisclassic @ancientlyric @tim_delap @EuniceERoberts @DavidRubinActor