Homer's Catalogue of Ships from the Iliad. Where the...
https://kottke.org/26/09/0049646-catalogue-of-ships
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Random thought: I am not talented enough to do this but has anyone thought of redrafting the lyrics to Bryan Adams' hit "Summer of 69" where the subject is the "Year of the Four Emperors" in Ancient Rome?
#Classics #RomanEmpire #BryanAdams #AncientHistory
"Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland, beasts of every land and clime, hearken to my joyful tidings of the golden future time."
George Orwell, Animal Farm
#books #classics #dystopian #bookstodon
Emily Wilson's Pan of 'The Odyssey' Ignites a Debate Among Classicists and Commenters
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/arts/the-odyssey-emily-wilson-christopher-nolan.html
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"The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down…"
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
#books #classics #fantasy #bookstodon
'The Odyssey' Gives Us the Hero We Deserve
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/opinion/odysseus-christopher-nolan.html
#Opinion #Movies #Classics
How Christopher Nolan Proved the 'Odyssey' Haters Wrong
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/opinion/odyssey-nolan-woke-debate.html
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Do we have any Latin scholars here who can tell me what the Latin word is for "carob"?
Various online dictionaries are coming up blank, but I know they had carob trees and pods around then and that they were in some sort of use so there must be language for that.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4254221
#Classics #Latin #History #Carob #Food
I can't believe the classics department died for this.
Our entire western civilization is only three budget cuts away from rediscovering etymology.
#nolan #odyssey #humanities #classics #greekmythology #twitter #joke
Hi everyone, thought I'd make my first post here about my love of old books. I love original or close to original spelling. And one of the wonders of the internet is that I don't need to be rich or have access to an academic library to get such. There's so many free and legal databases.
Currently reading Hypolitus by Madame d'Aulnoy, bound with a version of Macbeth and possibly a version of The Tale of Two Lovers by Pope Pius II.
#books #bookstadon #classics
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Franklyn Cicero is the name of Giancarlo Esposito's character, the symbol of the old guard: erudite (like the real Cicero) but corrupt. Was the historical Cicero corrupt? Corruption was pretty normal in Roman Republican politics but Cicero was reckoned to be unusually honest for a Roman. Perhaps someone who actually remembers their #Classics education could tell me.
Ugh I'm already starting to get an idea of what Megalopolis is all about...
I'm having difficulty choosing words while Catilina (Adam Driver) walks on scaffolding. Haha.
40 years ago, but still such a classic.
It's still amazing to this day that they made a movie in which the swaggering white dude was the incompetent comedic sidekick and yet managed to convince everyone he was the hero. And they did it in the 80s.
#movies #culture #classics #80s #BigTroubleInLittleChinahttps://bamfstyle.com/2026/07/02/big-kurt-russell-in-little-china/
A Brief History of Wuthering Heights in Pop Culture
From operas to The Simpsons, everywhere you look, the doomed love of Heathcliff and Cathy is there.
https://bookriot.com/wuthering-heights-in-pop-culture/
#BookRadar #Classics #PopCulture #WutheringHeights
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