Yeah, I stumbled upon it in 2021 from an @askhistorians.bsky.social question from, I think 2018? The question was about whether the ancients believed the Underworld was a place you could actually visit. I went to the Oracle of the Dead site not expecting much, maybe some academic Classicist thing.
The aesthetics are designed to hurt me, personally, as a classicist, I am so excited. HES NAMED CAESAR CATILINE!!
The annoying classicist in me is screaming rn also enjoy your candle!
#ClassicsTober24 Day 3: Thucydides Not necessarily what you'd expect today but read this if you want an easy way in to a lot of Thucydides. My favourite book of all time, which inspired me to become a classicist all those years ago.
Yes, yes and yes; most people are repeating in good faith stuff they’ve read on apparently reliable websites. Even the famous example of Colin Powelk’s “Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most” was result of terrible citation practice by an otherwise reputable classicist.
As the classicist in the room you'd know better than me, but didn't they take multiple bites of the cherry, until they were exiled, in the latter part of the Republic?
This is when my favorite college prof, the classicist John Wyatt, would go VERY Socratic Method. "So, MR Eyeroll? You seem to disagree? Can you explain?" Or, would spend the rest of the semester making many points in class by saying "But we know that Mr Eyeroll doesn't believe in voting, so ..."
Peter Green obituary: pre-eminent classicist and inspiration to Bob Dylan - www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
Model for Guy Perron in the Raj Quartet novels whose translations of Ovid were lifted for Dylan’s songs
91) As a Classicist fluent in Latin, Lovecraft was asked by a schoolteacher friend of his to judge his students' Latin translations. One student singled out for praise was a young Black woman (name withehld, but I've gone through the yearbook and can make a reasonable guess).