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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Gen AI approaches the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite through Anchises’ viewpoint, which I find a bit ironic. This raises the question about the implicit male-bias of Gen AI given that it is a Hymn to Aphrodite and is reflective of her characteristics not Anchises’.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Anyone here presenting or attending Fronte Aretusa’s Gorgōnes kai Gynaikes Symposium in Syracusa this November?

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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sometimes she left the party, sometimes she left the college. Maybe she went to another one or maybe she decided college or grad school wasn’t for her after all. Maybe she decided that career wasn’t it, and lowered her expectations for her whole damn life.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Has anyone ever done an antiquity and the rise of sexology course? I worked with Daniel Orrells at KCL and I know his book (Sex: Antiquity and its Legacy) is a good source, but are there any others that focus specifically on that connection?

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The comments across social media platforms responding to Mary Beard stating why she dislikes the phrase “I really love reading” have been overwhelmingly negative with the term “pretentious” being thrown around a great deal. (1/3)

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

LLMs feel like a return to a pre-scientific revolution/enlightenment environment when information and “answers” were controlled and funneled through very specific hierarchical contexts. If you want answers, you consult the almighty source and do not worry yourself with speculation, that’s heretical.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Moved to the West End neighborhood in D.C. today. I’ve always been an urban creature so making the commute to George Mason from D.C. felt right.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m happy to announce that I accepted an assistant professor position in classical studies and history at George Mason University ✨

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/07/2026

You'll not convince me this isn't the historically accurate Odysseus.

Wishbone as Odysseus in the "Homer, Sweet Homer" episode.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Has anyone read Harry Tanner’s “The Queer Thing About Sin” and have thoughts on it?

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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A himborb.

Male Gambel's quail being round next to a cactus.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I feel like it would just take one Pokémon looking at Pikachu and asking “why doesn’t he need to live in the ball?” to lead to some fuckin changes in that society

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The reception of MeToo as a failure is wild to me. More has been written in backlash to the movement than has been written about holding men accountable for their misogynistic, predatory, and sexist behavior. More has been written humanizing perpetrators than has been written about victims.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Has anyone written on ancient tragedy and the pushback against Me-Too in media? Specifically the obsession with the perpetrator over the victim?

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

This Academic Sisyphus does not imagine himself happy.

A meme showing a Skelton doing squats with a barbell with “My body is a machine that turns Apply now into unfortunately, we will not be moving forward with your application, but we appreciate your…”

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The right-wing method of subversion is to broadcast fantasies of their own oppression while remaining representatives of hegemonic, patriarchal, and traditional power structures.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Speaking truth to power is not pointing out how everything done by this administration and the right is hypocritical—they have zero principles and will do anything, even something they’ve opposed in the recent past. We need to be emphasizing just how dangerously stupid these people are. Denormalize!

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I received my MA in Classics at U of Oregon and this is absolutely horrific news. I owe so much to that department and the wonderful faculty there. Unthinkable.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Did anyone see the report on the pronatalist family whose oldest child is named Octavian…yikes!

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Lizzy @stonedeva.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Taken up painting hmu next month if you want a bunch of free art supplies

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I choose to believe that the etymology for “palliative” is Pallas and therefore palliative care is to be in the loving embrace of armed Athena.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I just need a contrived nickname and I might be this guy.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I don’t think enough work has been done to show just how queer a figure the Roman emperor really is.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Can someone else be responsible for my happiness for a change?

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Dropping extra copies of my Classical Mythology quizzes into every Little Free Library to keep the neighborhoods educated.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Has anyone written on the comparative overlap of Athena’s response to the desecration of her holy space in the stories of the rape of Cassandra and the rape of Medusa?

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 06/04/2025

The longer I teach, the more I am convinced that the most important part of teaching is Vibes Management.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

We are currently seeing those in power run America like a business. They can look at funding for the widespread prevention of deadly diseases and only see its cost believing that its function has no inherent value. People who only care about money don’t give a shit about anything else.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

personally would not describe the myth of a man cursed to roll a rock uphill FRUITLESSLY FOR ALL ETERNITY as “a reminder that you can overcome anything” but you do you, meta ad

a picture of a necklace with a figure on it who is pushing some kind of pearl or bauble up the necklace chain, labeled “the Sisyphus necklace”… “a reminder that you can overcome anything”

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Does anyone have any suggestions for a modern film that would be great to watch after reading the Iliad for the sake of comparison? The film doesn’t have to be about the ancient world or even war, but just explore similar dynamics/character types.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Teaching a Classical Hero & Film course this semester. Just watched The Quick & The Dead (1995) alongside reading Euripides’ Heracles. The amount that these two overlap is fascinating. There is even a statue of Heracles in the film.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

“A city does not have good sense when it’s sick with faction and bad counsels; otherwise it would never have gotten you as ruler.” Euripides’ Heracles, 272-274

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 31/01/2025

"DEI" is "CRT" is "gender ideology" is "cultural Marxism"--never a static, definable thing whose merits can be defended or debated or reasoned about. It is a specter, a phantasm, a nebulous evil, a RHETORICAL DEVICE, first and foremost. It is a cudgel to instrumentalize against the marginalized.

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I will not post much on this topic, but I'm the Head of Ancient History and Religion at Cardiff University. Our staff and students are nothing short of amazing. Those who know me will know that I'm doing all I can.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

At any museum I go to I have to find a work of art that best depicts who I am deep inside. At the Detroit Institute of Art today it was this one.

A painting of a jester shaking hands with a monkey in human clothing. Title is “staunch friends”

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 21/01/2025

President Claudia Sheinbaum has proposed a compromise name for the Gulf of Mexico.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

If you have not read Giulia Sissa’s chapter in “Searching for the Cinaedus in Ancient Rome” I highly recommend it. Her argument against the dominant active/passive sexual binary is compelling and enlightening.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Sarah Ruden said on a podcast last year that “we do read and believe with confidence that [Virgil] was a gay man.” With how much confidence? I’ve heard that said and seen it written speculatively, but never with confidence and not with the modern label “gay”. Any thoughts?

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

The way things are and the way things feel are often disparate. I feel no sense of accomplishment for a year in which I earned a doctorate and got an adjunct classics position directly after graduating. However, I feel like I haven’t done enough to be a viable candidate for anything greater.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Reading Yevgeny Zamyatin’s “We” continues my odd habit of reading Russian literature on my phone. I read The Brother’s Karamazov and Crime and Punishment on my phone. (Because they are all free on the Books app).

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I randomly started reading Yevgeny Zamyatin’s “We” written in 1924 and it feels eerily relevant for our current AI moment.

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

In one of my student's suasorias. *Chef's Kiss*

Fictional dialogue between Dido and Aeneas

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Say hello to Spartacus, the horse I rode in the Kakheti region of Georgia.

Photo of kakheti region of Georgia while on horseback with the Caucasus in the background

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Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Lessons learned from teaching Greek and Roman Environment for the first time: Ovid’s Metamorphoses is the perfect text for this class. Student’s find Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura the most modern Roman hydraulic mining was insane. Dissolving mountains is insane.

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