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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Philip Freeman's brisk life of Aristotle confirms how little the surviving record can tell us about the workings of the philosopher's mind. Aristotle: a biography without a life | @armanddangour.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/aris...

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Aristotle: a biography without a life

Philip Freeman's brisk life of Aristotle confirms how little the surviving record can tell us about the workings of the philosopher's mind.

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Nolan's Odyssey was always going to be a spectacle, but it has little that is Homeric, and nothing at all Hellenic in spirit. Nolan’s Odyssey, not Homer’s | @armanddangour.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/nola...

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Nolan's Odyssey, not Homer's

Nolan's Odyssey was always going to be a spectacle, but it has little that is Homeric, and nothing at all Hellenic in spirit.

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Antiquité | Religions | Classics - Ottawa @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🚨 BREAKING: uOttawa has RE-SUSPENDED Greek & Roman Studies for 2026-27 just weeks after reinstating the programme. Seems to violate Ontario's regulation on designation. Department: "We are shocked at the willingness to ignore the interests of Franco-Ontarians." More soon. #SOSClassicsUO #ONfr

Exterior view of the Desmarais Building at the University of Ottawa, a modern multi‑storey structure with a curved glass façade and a rectangular architectural frame at the roofline. A sidewalk, greenery, and a few pedestrians appear in the foreground under a clear blue sky.

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Antiquité | Religions | Classics - Ottawa @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Antiquité grecque et romaine à l'UOttawa est le SEUL programme en Ontario où l'on peut étudier le grec ancien et le latin en français. L'université l'a re-suspendu. Les franco-ontarien·ne·s n'ont plus AUCUN accès aux langues classiques en français. #SOSÉtudesAnciennes #ONfr #uOttawa buff.ly/UtgW0vq

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Antiquité | Religions | Classics - Ottawa @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

La Loi sur l'Université d'Ottawa (1965) EXIGE que l'université « préserve et développe la culture française en Ontario ». Éliminer le seul programme d'études classiques en français de la province lui porte atteinte . buff.ly/UtgW0vq #SOSÉtudesAnciennes #ONfr #DroitsLinguistiques #uOttawa #Ottawa

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update: UNIVERSITY of ottawa RE-SUSPENDS greek and roman studies! ALERTE : L'Université d'Ottawa RE-SUSPEND Antiquité grecque et romaine suspension of

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ocufa.bsky.social @ocufa.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Ontario per-domestic student funding is the lowest in Canada by a wide margin. Increasing student debt won’t close the gap. Ontario universities need stable long-term funding. tinyurl.com/yjccsa9r

A jar of change labeled EDUCATION with a graduation cap on top. Text beside the image reads: Ontario per-domestic student funding is the lowest in Canada by a wide margin. Increasing student debt won’t close the gap. Ontario universities need stable long-term funding.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I used to own a company that made money from origami. It folded.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I trawled through Euripides' Bacchae and found a dozen lines Aristophanes *could* easily have inserted for a laugh had he known the Bacchae in any detail. I’ve just published my piece on it in a Festschrift honouring my friend and erstwhile colleague Chris Kraus (Yale). 'THE SILENCE OF THE FROGS'

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Catullus’s rudest poem, my new translation. You know you want to read it. You can even hear it read. open.substack.com/pub/armandda...

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Catullus's rudest poem

Friendship and poetry

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Latest Cavafy translation. Cavafy's poem "Satrapy" is set in the historical framework of an ancient Athenian citizen (5th cent. BC) being co-opted by the Persian Empire of Artaxerxes. It's a metaphor for someone ruining their life for the sake of gain... armanddangour.substack.com/p/better-die...

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Better die free than live a slave

Cavafy's Satrapy

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Advice from 1911. When you discover too late that you’ve always skipped a crucial step…

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Ancient Greek poet-songwriter Anacreon (c. 573-495 BC) complains about getting old. See my temples greyed already and my head with hair all whitened: happy youth no more is with me, but my agèd teeth are crumbling and the charm of life is shortened... armanddangour.substack.com/p/the-poets-...

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The Poet's Complaint

Rhythms of old age and false teeth

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

On a train. It’s curious how, as I search vainly on my phone for ticket and railcard, I’m made to feel like a fare dodger. Then I find it and am thanked politely, now a welcome customer.

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

It may appear to be a welcoming symbol, but history tells us a red carpet is often a trap. Rolling out the red carpet | @armanddangour.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/rol...

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Rolling out the red carpet

It may appear to be a welcoming symbol, but history tells us a red carpet is often a trap.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Catullus in love. open.substack.com/pub/armandda...

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Sexual intercourse began In 63 BC (which was rather late for me) - Between the end of the Catiline coup And Catullus' first whoopee.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Opening lines of Homer's Odyssey, new translation. That man of many twists and turns, Muse, tell of him, who far went wandering when he had sacked Troy’s sacred citadel, who many cities saw, and many thoughts of men discerned... armanddangour.substack.com/p/translatin...

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Translating the Odyssey

The rhythm of The Man

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Logie Leggatt, a fine athlete at Eton, enlisted when World War I broke out in 1914. He revered his old school. On 31 July 1917 he was killed, aged 22, by a sniper's bullet. Logie is honoured in the Greek Ode I composed for his great-nephew George, Lord Leggatt: open.substack.com/pub/armandda...

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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Translating the Odyssey

The rhythm of The Man

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Excellent piece by @armanddangour.bsky.social On the use of writing In ancient Athens and in the age of AI. 🗃️ 🏺 #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky #skystorians #language #AI armanddangour.substack.com/p/on-the-use...

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On the Use of Writing

In ancient Athens - and in the age of AI

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I've been invited to a conference in Zeugma. I can't go so have declined with regret and by email.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The werewolf story from Petronius still gives people goosebumps…. open.substack.com/pub/armandda...

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A Roman Werewolf

Tales of the Supernatural

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Ardent Archivist @ardentarchivist.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This is brilliant! @armanddangour.bsky.social (And surely the cutest 'ants' in all history.) armanddangour.substack.com/p/gold-diggi...

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Gold-digging ants

Vindicating Herodotus

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Ardent Archivist @ardentarchivist.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I never knew (until now) that @armanddangour.bsky.social had composed a Greek Ode for the London Olympics - and it’s a corker! armanddangour.substack.com/p/composing-...

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Composing ancient Greek verse

A recipe for Alcaics

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The true lover sees the beauty of the soul, not the body.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Last night I dreamt I was supposed to be doing my Final Exams, and was anxious about being insufficiently prepared. For heavens’ sake, it’s been nearly 50 years!

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Laugh like no one is watching, tweet like no one is reading😀

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Love's Sting - a charming little poem ascribed to Anacreon (6th cent BC), in my new translation. I read it here in ancient Greek and in English: armanddangour.substack.com/p/loves-sting

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

He said he’d kill my verses with a line: 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒.” Too rude? Not rude enough?

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

“You have asked 18 questions and that is enough,” Said the chatbot, “Don’t give yourself airs! Do you think I’ll respond hours on end to such stuff? Sign up or I’ll kick you downstairs.”

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

An explanation of the scene in Aristophanes' Frogs where the older playwright says he can destroy the younger one's verses with the equivalent of 'up yer bum!' open.substack.com/pub/armandda...

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The poet's rude rejoinder

In Aristophanes' comedy 'Frogs'

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

'Offer a single word in an ancient language for 'let him drink'. Latinist: Hold my potato. (h/t Antigone journal)

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

‘Offer a single word in an ancient language for ‘may I be blessed’. Latinist: Hold my beer.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Greggs make bigger pasties than Grex did.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Once a lady explained that the land Is held up by a terrapin grand. Said astute William James "I must question your claims, For on what does that terrapin stand?" Said the lady to James with a frown “You seem dim for a man of renown. Each one stands, you should know, On the tortoise below…

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Said a lady once to philosopher William James: “My theory is that we live on a crust of earth borne by a turtle, which stands on a second, larger, turtle.” "And what does the second turtle stand on?" he asked. "Mr. James!” the lady exclaimed, “It’s turtles all the way down!"

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, Union Jacks and some things Murray’s written, Brown paper packages tied up with strings, These are just some of my Brexity things…” 🎶

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

New series out. Prompted by guests Alistair Horne, Mary Beard, and others.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

It’s the duty of educators not just to teach but to inspire the love of learning.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I was asked why he chose the name Leo and said with a straight face that it was his zodiac sign. I expected laughter but got exclamations of dismay.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

In 2024 the UK sent 8.3 billion emails EVERY DAY - a daily carbon footprint of 2751 tonnes. Taxing emails at 1p each would limit them and raise billions.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Two Callatiae dining: “This tastes funny, doesn’t it.” “Yes. I miss the dad jokes too.”

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Herodotus 3.38: “Darius summoned the Indian Callatiae, who eat their parents, and asked them what would make them ready to cremate their forbears. They cried out, saying he should not talk of such a foul act. So firmly rooted are these beliefs; as Pindar rightly says “custom rules everywhere”.”

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