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Professor of Classics. Larkin about. Often thinking in Latin and Greek verse. Weekly Newsletter:

London and Oxford

https://t.co/gL8b0DxXWe

Joined May 2012

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Armand D'Angour

7 months

“Just like the life of leaves is that of men: The wind blows some to earth, but then again, in spring, the forest blooms, and new leaves grow. So, too, men’s generations come and go." (Glaucus to Diomedes, Iliad 6.146-9) Death comes to all; life goes on.

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Like Leaves on a Tree

A scene from Homer's Iliad

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Armand D'Angour

7 months

As are generations of leaves, so are those of men. The wind blows some leaves to the earth, but when spring comes the forest grows again and puts out new ones. Just so does one generation of men arise while another passes away. Homer Iliad 6. 146-9

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2 years

Visiting an old friend in Luxembourg. She likes books.

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2 years

@mervatim When we came from the US with an adopted baby aged 1 month on a temporary UK visa, the border officer actually asked “ Is she intending to stay in the country?” I was so taken aback I failed to say that she was intending to work here too.

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5 months

'Despite frequent remonstrations, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go".

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Arte e architettura in Calabria di Peppe Lombardo

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Pinakes, legate al culto di Persefone dell'antica Locri, in questo caso rappresenta fanciulla (Persefone) che ripone un telo nella cassa, questa piccola tavoletta votiva del V sec. a.C. in terracotta è conservata nel Museo archeologico di Locri. #Calabria #arte #Archaeology #art

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Catullus Lesbia

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7 months

A crime worthy of a mythical recompense. When Erysichthon chopped down Demeter's sacred tree, the goddess afflicted him with insatiable hunger. He ate everything he could, and when he ran out of food he started on his own body, and died eating himself.

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David KC

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7 months

Absolutely devastated to learn that some absolute c*nt has cut down the Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrian’s Wall overnight. It’s barely a month since I visited it with @ExcelPope but it had stood for hundreds of years.

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1 year

There can be such a thing as too many books.

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Stephen King

1 year

No such thing as too many books.

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@mikekofoed Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane? Me: Yes, but I'm not that kind of … Flight attendant: The pilots are debating whether the story of Daedalus and Icarus was based on any real ancient attempts to fly using wings. Me: Okay. I’m here.

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3 years

When I got my position at Oxford 20 years ago, a former senior colleague thought he could deflect his envy by saying to me, as if in jest, “Ah, the scum always rises to the top”. Not easily forgotten.

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4 years

Aristophanes’ Frogs chorus compete with Dionysus as he rows across the lake of the Underworld: Brekekekex Koax Koax!

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Delphi now.

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3 months

This headline would only have been improved by removing quote marks from ‘Holy Grail’.

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3 years

Time to repatriate the Parthenon marbles as a gesture of recognition. 1. No precedent need be set: the Parthenon is unique, and an icon of Greek identity. 2. Yes, they belong "to the world" - but belong *on* the Acropolis. 3. BM has vast numbers of other treasures to display.

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1 year

A journalist friend asked if he might sit in on my Greek metre class. Afterwards he said to me, beaming, “I didn’t understand much of it but it was a real privilege to hear you sharing your expertise on a topic which for all practical purposes is completely and utterly useless.”

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Armand D'Angour

2 years

What if Latin opens the mind to a treasure-house of thought, poetry, art, beauty, history, fun, and wisdom, and only *incidentally* accelerates learners’ ability to think critically, speak eloquently, write grammatically, and master a dozen other languages should they so wish?

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Tim Gill

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Why not just go straight to those other types of knowledge? Why waste time? It’s like Latin. “Oh, it can help you learn other languages.” Why not just go learn those other languages? It seems like an unnecessary obstacle, IMHO.

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4 years

Thucydides wrote his History "so that later generations might learn". Regarding the Plague he reported 1) high death of doctors and carers 2) dangers of proximity and 3) increasing lawlessness. So we should learn: 1) protect front line staff 2) social distance 3) support police.

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Armand D'Angour

3 years

I spent many hours learning Fortran in 1973. It was the language of the future.

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3 years

What’s the best translation of Domimina nustio illumea?

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3 years

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

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5 years

How strange that scholars have thought that the ancient comic poets who called Aspasia a prostitute and brothel-madam should be taken seriously, while the serious writers Plato and Xenophon, who depict her as a respected teacher of eloquence and expert on love, must be *joking*.

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3 years

@MentalHeadline @danwaterfield

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Armand D'Angour

3 years

@irinibus Right. There is absolutely no need or pressure to listen to anything or anyone on Twitter that makes you unhappy or annoyed. You've got family for that.

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Armand D'Angour

7 months

‘Acer’, Latin for sycamore, means ‘sharp’ or ‘bitter’. An elegiac epigram: Arbor erat quondam, vallo stetit acer in imo; Nunc iacet occisus, maeror et acer adest. A sycamore once towered on the plain; Now felled it lies, a source of bitter pain.

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Iain Martin

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Death of a sycamore. The story of the human being who destroys his environment and himself through greed and wantonness is a fable for our times, as the Greeks and Romans knew. @ArmandDAngour on Engelsberg Ideas @EngelsbergIdeas

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Armand D'Angour

4 years

If I produced a simple progressive guide to composing Latin verse, would anyone be interested?

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Armand D'Angour

5 months

Years ago a correspondent in TLS told how, as a boy, he once cut the nose off a slice of Brie. His elderly French hostess saw him and said "je n'ai jamais vu quelqu'un qui coupât le nez d'un Brie d'une telle manière". "The sharp hiss of the subjunctive", he wrote "still stings".

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Gabriel Finkelstein

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I never learned how to cut cheese

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Spread Humus not Hate.

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Armand D'Angour

2 years

Homer’s Iliad. Homer’s Odyssey.

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Armand D'Angour

8 months

Russians will be furious snd alarmed that their cities are under attack. No one wants endless attrition, but the difference is that Ukraine must feel it has no choice but to fight to the end, while Russia can choose to withdraw at any time.

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Julia Davis

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8 months

Vladimir Solovyov was furious about Ukraine's latest drone attack. Blinded by rage, he revealed that Russian experts are urging the Kremlin to end this war and came close to admitting that Russia can't win with conventional weapons.

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6 years

Ancient Greek music: now we finally know what it sounded like via @ConversationUK

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Ancient Greek music: now we finally know what it sounded like

My investigations have generated stunning insights into how the ancient Greeks made music.

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Armand D'Angour

1 month

I used to understand the distinction between French ‘mot’ and ‘parole’ but now I’m not Saussure.

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Nicola Jane Swinney

@NicolaJSwinney

1 year

I used to think I knew the French for "shoes", but now I'm not chaussures.

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Armand D'Angour

7 months

Augustus: "Can you write an epic on the founding of Rome?" Virgil: "I sometimes wonder if perhaps Rome was started by exiles from Troy. It’s not completely out of the question. At some point in antiquity, a few ships of very competent soldiers (with almost no women) landed on..."

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Elon Musk

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@UpdatingOnRome I sometimes wonder if perhaps Rome was started by exiles from Troy. It’s not completely out of the question. At some point in antiquity, a few ships of very competent soldiers (with almost no women) landed on the coast of Italy. Where did they come from?

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4 years

@KirstenShielART Businessman’s Brexit.

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Armand D'Angour

4 months

I was taught Latin and Greek at 7 and was immediately entranced by classical poetry and literature. Nearly 60 years later I feel I’m beginning to understand some of it.

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Harold Bloom Quotes

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You don’t have to absolutely, thoroughly, cognitively grasp a poem to be fascinated by it. When I was a little boy, already madly in love with William Blake and Hart Crane, I couldn’t possibly have understood what I was reading.

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Armand D'Angour

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Just received a scam email from someone purporting to be an academic friend. I was initially taken in, but I wrote back in Latin and have had no response...

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Armand D'Angour

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I undertook to reveal the answer to the Homeric Question when I reached 12k followers. So I've now started writing the book that explains how and by whom the poems were created, when they were written down, and why they survive in the form they do. It should take at least a year.

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Daughter who’s always hated Latin and sneers at my every pun, now doing philosophy A level, looks at me slyly and says “I’m learning about the summum bonum, I suppose you think I’m the summum malum”. I’m still in recovery...

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Armand D'Angour

1 year

How does one train to get to Oxford? you ask. Generally via Reading.

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Armand D'Angour

4 years

Who says autocrats don't have a sense of humour.

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Luis Moreno

4 years

PRC President Xi just called it the “White House virus.”

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@DavidMuttering Well done. Do the same next October for Auerbach.

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2 years

Recital for Classics for All - first minute of Brahms e minor cello sonata, Kobi Kremnitzer on piano

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The moon has set on high; the Pleiades are gone. Midnight; the time slips by, and I – I sleep alone. δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα καὶ Πληΐαδες· μέσαι δὲ νύκτες, παρὰ δ᾿ ἔρχετ᾿ ὤρα, ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω. ---Sappho fr. 52

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4 years

“It’s coming up as Latin”.😂😂😂

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2 years

Three classicists (out of 4) at @JesusOxford just got First Class grades in Mods (the major mid-course set of exams). A record for the College - the first such result in around 30 years. A stunning vindication of the use of Active Latin and Greek to teach the ancient languages.

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4 years

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” Mark Twain

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6 years

Essay on the Aeneid cites the 'Carthaginian queen, Dildo'. O autocorrupt, o mores.

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Armand D'Angour

3 years

The existence of Α-μεν implies the existence of A-δε.

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Guy Reschenthaler

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3 years

The prayer to open the 117th Congress ended with "amen and a-women." Amen is Latin for "so be it." It's not a gendered word. Unfortunately, facts are irrelevant to progressives. Unbelievable.

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Armand D'Angour

3 years

Waiting for the obit that says “After retirement he spent most of his time on Twitter, and died peacefully 10 years later with nearly 4000 followers”.

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Armand D'Angour

2 years

Faux.

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The Purple Pimpernel

@Eyeswideopen69

2 years

Friend or foe?

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2 years

@mervatim Ah but remember “the English keep their pets at home and send their kids to kennels”…

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Armand D'Angour

5 months

You say nothing about reading history or learning to compose Latin and Greek verse. Useless advice.

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Cleopatra | Seduce Her 💋

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5 months

7 strategies to improve your confidence and attract all women to your bed:

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Armand D'Angour

3 years

Achilles and Patroclus

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Alberto Pupo

3 years

Who are they? Wrong answers only.

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Armand D'Angour

2 years

@thehistoryguy Plutarch, Sayings of the Spartans 219a6-8 "When Archidamus saw the missile shot from a catapult which had been brought for the first time from Sicily, he exclaimed " By Heracles, the prowess (areta) of a man is obsolete".

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5 years

@SophieOverett I knew that last paragraph was a risk.

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Armand D'Angour

4 years

Anyone else finding they are too distracted to work properly in this crisis and are turning to Twitter obsessively for news and entertainment?

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Armand D'Angour

3 years

Just discovered the ancient Greek word βαδάς. You would never guess that it means... 'badass'! (According to Hesychius' lexicon, it's a synonym of kinaidos).

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Armand D'Angour

6 months

Why does Marcus Aurelius have to sound like a glib life coach? Is this translation not better? “We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing, and to not let it upset our state of mind.”

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Daily Stoic

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“You always own the option of having no opinion.” — Marcus Aurelius

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Armand D'Angour

7 months

iacet ingens litore truncus avulsumque umeris caput et sine nomine corpus. He lies, a huge trunk, on the shore, head severed from the neck, a corpse without a name. Virgil on Priam’s death, a moment of deep pathos (Aeneid 2).

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Armand D'Angour

3 years

Incredible. 3rd-year student @YaamirBadhe has just submitted his weekly tutorial essay on a Cicero oration - in fluent Latin. Go Oxford! Mirum est, nam discipulus qui tertium annum cursus agit pensum de Ciceronis oratione ben Latine scriptum modo tribuit. Floreat Oxonium.

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Armand D'Angour

8 months

The Aeneid reduced to a clerihew: Aeneas the son of Anchises Was tossed far and wide on the high seas. He wanted a place to call home, Unaware that all roads lead to Rome. #clerihew

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Armand D'Angour

2 years

It’s been a year. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Armand D'Angour

4 years

Virgil, Sappho, Homer, Lucan.

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Vegard

4 years

who are they? wrong answers only

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Armand D'Angour

24 days

They found the original!

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Claire Heywood

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One of the new frescoes uncovered at Pompeii. Helen and Paris lock eyes, but the dog and the maid seem to know it's a bad idea... Photo: BBC/TONY JOLLIFFE

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Armand D'Angour

3 years

“You are what you eat”.

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Rabih Alameddine

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3 years

Manatees eating sweet potatoes

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2 years

Old Etonian replaced by Young Estonian.

@LeChouNews

Le Chou News

2 years

Estonia’s Popular PM @KajaKallas Quits Job, Replaces Sinking Boris Johnson At Head Of UK Government

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Armand D'Angour

4 months

Twitter became X.

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Flame (炎)

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Armand D'Angour

6 years

I never imagined the film of my project of recreating ancient Greek music would get 30,000 views in a week, with ecstatic responses. Kudos to @OxfordDigital for putting together a video that has caught viewers' imagination so brilliantly.

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Armand D'Angour

1 year

The great painters of the age were famed for their naturalistic representation. The classical Greeks’ music was glorious, their literature infinitely nuanced, their sculptures superbly lifelike. Why on earth would one assume that their colour sense and skills were this unsubtle?

@Symmach_

Symmachus 📜🏺

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A then and now comparison of how the Erechtheion on the Athenian acropolis may have looked with its original paintwork c. 5th century BCE. 📷ArchaeoPhoto #Classics #Athens #Art #History #Greece

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3 months

At last, offered a fee for the use of one of my translations! How much? I suggest a sum. 24 hrs later: sorry, we've decided to use another version. Is it the cost, I ask? If so, use it for free, rather than an inferior one. They gratefully accept! What a great negotiator I am.

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6 months

Struck as often that the windows in my Oxford office have the strange capacity to suck light out rather than let light in.

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Armand D'Angour

7 months

Shakespeare and Robert Graves were both educated in the classics. Nowadays those who are not classically educated must rely on Google for this kind of thing.

@Satureja2

Lucy Knight

7 months

Yesterday I discovered that Augustus (I, Claudius) and Octavian (Shakespeare) are apparently the same person??? I am furious that no-one explained this to me sooner. And/or that I didn't work it out for myself...

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Armand D'Angour

2 years

solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant (Tacitus) they create a desert and call it peace

@LukeDCoffey

Luke Coffey

2 years

Russia’s liberation

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Armand D'Angour

8 months

“Yass Queen” is a fine updating of “Sing, Muse”. It has a ‘Hwaet’ quality about it.

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Maia

8 months

Can't believe the beggining of Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey: “Yass Queen, tw: rage, sing the rage of Pelias’ son Achilles (he/him), Problematic, how it gave the People of Greekdom trauma And cancelled many heroes who had ableist tweets"

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2 years

Lovely wild flower border in @StHughsCollege Oxford

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Armand D'Angour

4 years

Writing about the wonderful Homeric passage when Odysseus strings his bow and tests it 'and the string sang like the voice of a swallow' (Od. 23.403-11) - the ominous prelude to his slaughter of the suitors. My translation:

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Armand D'Angour

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@oldenoughtosay First we try to teach ‘em the right way to say Beauchamp Then along comes Beaulieu - it’s quite a challenge, truly. Traversing all the circuit, we will alight on Urquhart; but will agree, though glumly, the worst offender’s ‘Cholmondeley’.

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Doing a late doctorate has the strange consequence that it doesn’t feel as if much time has passed between using a Student Railcard and using a Senior Railcard.

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Armand D'Angour

3 years

Just arrived! Brilliant book by brilliant former Oxford doctoral researcher @SpencerKlavan Read it and understand!!

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Armand D'Angour

9 months

What is the point of this cracked design? Other than to make users think their screen has a flaw?

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Lord Acton wrote "Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely". I casually misquoted him in a talk at Eton College as 'Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely'. An agitated schoolboy approached me afterwards: ‘What granddad actually said was...’.

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Paul Eggleston

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Just back from doing a sponsored descent down the side of a building. My special skill of impersonating an owl as I came down infuriated another participant so much that he started shouting obscenities at me! Proof that abseil hoot power corrupts abseil lewdly. #LunchPun

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Supercali-fragilistic-expiali-docious. Here's a list of Latin poets, though the rhyme's atrocious. Plautus-Terence-Ennius, Catullus and Lucretius. Virgil-Horace-Ovid, and Tibullus and Propertius.

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Catullus 32 (a naughty one), new verse translation. Hard!

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@iliadmaeve Do you know Odysseus’s Letter to Penelope from inside the horse? Here in translation, with the original Latin by brilliant R.Knox.

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[S][W] [O] [R] [D] [I] [N] [B] [I] [O]

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Clytemnestra by John Collier, 1914, oil on canvas. Collection: Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery.

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Re Odysseus’ pun, in the 6th-cent. BC a huge graffito was chopped by a Greek soldier with an axe onto a massive statue at Abu Simbel. Signed “Archon son of Amoibichos and Axe son of Nobody.” Bafflingly, some scholars thought ‘Axe’ (pelekus) and ‘Nobody’ (oudamos) were real names.

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Engelsberg Ideas

@EngelsbergIdeas

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It is worth pausing to reflect on the escape device that thrilled the ears of audiences millennia ago in ancient Greece and to wonder whether there really is anything new under the sun. | @ArmandDAngour

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Armand D'Angour

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From ancient Babylon to North Korea. Some things don’t change.

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Armand D'Angour

8 years

Just used the Oxford comma again. Time for @brian_bilston to remind us how useful it is.

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@CaptainCaplin @JohnRentoul I see the 'The The'

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Armand D'Angour

3 years

@EthicsInBricks I have a joke about Theseus and Ariadne (thread)

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Armand D'Angour

3 years

We did Physics at school. Complete waste of time. The only highlight was being set a project to see whether we could blow the place up with water and sodium. Our Physics teacher quit to become a cabbie

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When this is all over I’m buying everyone a drink.

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Armand D'Angour

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"I've made a bet with Lord Cholmondely", Admitted Lord Derby quite glolmondely, "He'll get more than a guinea If he's not a nuinea And gets high with somebody colmondely."

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz

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I peaked as a researcher when I visited Brooks's Club in London and found this 1783 wager in their archive.

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I have a pretty obvious musical joke, Haydn in plain sight.

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Armand D'Angour

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New version of Catullus 5 for Valentine's day 2022.

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Armand D'Angour

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“Disseminating fake Aristotle quotes is never an accident. It is always the result of sheer ignorance, insufficient effort, and unintelligent parroting.” —-Donald Trump

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Physics In History

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"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution." - Aristotle

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My verse translation of Ronald Knox's brilliantly funny 'Letter to Penelope from inside the Trojan Horse'.

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A friend just ‘telephoned’ to say hi and have a chat. What is this, the 1980s?

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Armand D'Angour

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Am I the only reader to cringe when I see the words "To be honest"? They seem to imply "Here, a moment of rare honesty as a foil to my usual disingenuousness"...or they even act a signal that what is to come cannot really be credited.

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@RichardEvans36 they copied Ancient Greece, as shown by this photo from 500 BC

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Armand D'Angour

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You know what really is shattering? That Dennis is derived from Dionysus (via French Dénis).

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Jeff Reimer

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Just realized Denise is the female form of Dennis. Shattered

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I’m following an old friend on here who died three years ago because he’s still following me and it feels wrong to unfollow. Is this a common experience, and what is one to do about it if anything?

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When I say “x happened last year” I mean 2019 of course. It’s as if 2020 is a blank.

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