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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

reworking a conference paper like first item on the agenda: cut 500-700 words. second item on the agenda: figure out where I can fit in more puns.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Me: I don’t allow AI in my classroom, but I do let them bring their tablets. The Tablet: (Late antique wooden board inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad now at the BM)

Wooden board (with iron handle for hanging) inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad.
Cultures/periods
Late Roman
Production date
400-500
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot: Egypt
Africa: Egypt
Materials
wood
iron
Dimensions
Length: 40.64 centimetres
Inscriptions
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription language: Greek
Inscription subject
educational
literary
Curator's comments
TM 61042; Mertens-Pack 00611.000
Journal of Hellenic Studies (JHS) 29 (1909), p. 39 (Kenyon, Frederic G.); Chronique d‘Égypte (CdE) 68 (1993), p. 145-154 (Cribiore, Raffaella); Allen, Sutton, and West 2001: 131; Debut 1986: 260, no. 161; Cauderlier 1992: 90, no. 272.
Bibliographic references
Cribiore 1993 / A Homeric exercise from the Byzantine schoolroom (pp. 145-154)
Location
On display (G69/dc7)
Exhibition history
Exhibited:

2019-2020 21 Nov-8 Mar, London, BM, SEG, Troy
Associated names
Associated with: Homer
Acquisition name
Donated by: British School of Archaeology, Egypt
Acquisition date
1906
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
1906,1020.2
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number: TM 61042 (Trismegistos)
Conservation
treatment: 24.4.19 British Museum

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The humanities take bold new steps in their defence strategies.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/09/2026

Archaeologists Discover More Old Shit That Sucks theonion.com/archaeologists-discove…

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

probably Perseus himself, it seems like the kind of thing a hero does when he’s pissed off from beyond the grave that his cult isn’t getting enough honors

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

apologies to the museum guard who had to watch me stare at this statue for thirty minutes, I was not expecting to see Fulvia here

photograph of the marble statue “Fulvia” (1886) by Lio Gangeri, with Fulvia holding her right hand up to stab the severed head of Cicero with her hairpins. the photo is taken from below so that Fulvia’s left hand holding Cicero’s hair is in the lower part of of photo and her face is in the upper part. her expression is disgusted and disinterested, like that of someone crushing mg a bug.

photograph of the marble statue “Fulvia” (1886) by Lio Gangeri, detail of the face on the severed head of Cicero held in Fulvia’s lap

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m telling you, museum gift shops are missing out on the big bucks by not selling replicas of these

string of blue and yellow opaque glass beads on display in a museum case. each bead has several large blue dots inside of blue and white circles. the strand is arranged like a bracelet.

three strings of opaque dotted glass beads on display in a museum case. one long one with yellow beads with blue dots is arranged like a necklace. a second shorter one with beads in various shades of blue and dots in darker blue is arranged like a bracelet. a third one with both yellow and blue dotted beads as well as several solid-color gray-green beads is arranged like a bracelet.

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

it’s much nicer when you can figure out which local living classicist a donated book came from. in undergrad I found my (very much alive, I was seeing him twice a week) professor’s copy of Robert Graves’s The White Goddess at a library used book sale. yeah I get why he offloaded that one.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/01/2026

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

awaiting the day when you start showing up to teach in full panoply

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

this dissertation is full of brilliant sentences like "a human body is usually capable of speech"

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

very frustrated with the specific date they give for this, but I *think* I know whether it happened before or after the US started painting stop signs red in 1952

screenshot of an event from the New York Times Flashback weekly history quiz. The event description is "The writer Aeschylus revolutionizes Greek tragedy by introducing a second actor. Before then, plays were one-man shows backed by a chorus." The event image is a bust of Aeschylus.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

(the star is to a footnote that says "We like to include one or two towns from the locale where the play is being performed. Feel free to pick a couple of nearby places that produce enlisted men and women, and insert them after Lawrence, Kansas.")

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I highly recommend Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's play *An Iliad* for 'translating' this aspect! there are several catalogues at various points in the play and they're incredibly effective in performance. though not so much cheer-inducing.

Fighters from Coronea, Haleartus deep in meadows,
And the men who held Plataea and lived in Glisas,
Men who held the rough-hewn gates of Lower Thebes,
On-kee-stus the holy, Poseidon’s sun-filled grove,
Men from the town of Arne green with vineyards …

(He stops himself.) Ah, that’s right, you don’t know any of these places … but these names—these names mean something to me. And I knew these boys …

The point is, on all these ships, are boys from every small town in Ohio, from farmlands, from fishing villages … the boys of Nebraska and South Dakota … the twangy boys of Memphis … the boys of San Diego, Palo Alto, Berkeley, Antelope Valley … You can imagine, you can imagine, you know, um … there are soldiers from Kansas. There are soldiers from Lawrence, Kansas.* There are soldiers from Springfield, Illinois. Evanston, Illinois. Chicago, Illinois. Buffalo, New York. Cooperstown, New York. Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, uh, the Bronx, South Bronx. You have soldiers from Florida, from the Panhandle, with its snake charmers and evangelists, from the Okeechobee. You have soldiers from Miami who speak Spanish, Miami who speak French, Miami who speak English. You have Puerto Rican soldiers. You have soldiers from Texas, from the flatland, from Dallas, from Plano, from Houston. There are soldiers from Tennessee, from western Tennessee, from the mountains, from the mountains in Virginia, the mountains in Seattle. From Flint, Michigan, from Benton Harbor, from—from—from—in the thumb, from Escanaba, you know what I mean? … That’s it. That’s it.
You get the point.

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

yeah this chapter is coming along very nicely

spiderman pointing meme with two spidermen labelled "ghost of Polydorus" and "corpse of Polydorus" each pointing at the other

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

no yeah, I like it because I think that's the *point* and it in many ways anticipates/subverts later waves of 'feminist' retellings with a Penelope who's lying to us and to herself about her own complicity and (lack of) power. but with Atwood I often find it hard to tell what's actually intentional.

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

interesting bc I see it as doing the exact opposite! took two reads and seeing the play three times to figure out how I feel about it, but I think in the end Atwood has Penelope's guilt as yet another way that she makes the story about herself (and Odysseus), at the girls' expense

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I'm badly wounded, many of my friends are dead, and I haven't been home in ten years. But at least now Helen will have to return to Sparta.

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

have Bellerophon say “father I cannot click the baneful signs”

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

the day is rapidly approaching when I will have to face my fears and write this section about Alcestis. thankfully I can delay that day indefinitely by telling myself that first I have to read everything ever written about Alcestis.

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Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Enough of baked goods. I'm going to bake some evils.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

in what follows i will reinvent the wheel

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

this dissertation project is such that every few months I end up going "ah well. guess it's time to become an expert on [yet another lost/fragmentary tragedy]!"

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

you know what, that's as good an argument as any about the distribution of roles among actors. at least it's honest.

Our evidence, however, is not conclusive on this point. Our chief argument is the fitness of things.

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Cicero would be horrified by the vulgar medieval spellings this guy is using

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

look I understand that the norm in 1840 or whatever was to publish your classical scholarship in Latin, but that does not excuse using Ciceronian sentence structure

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

this meeting could've been an oral tradition

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

best day yet, and on a day with no Greek or Roman stuff! Anthropeum.com · Jul 9 2026 🟩🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟩🟦🟦🟦 92,591 · top 1% of players today!

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

saw the material and thought I'd figured out the date only for them to pull this!

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

coming to terms with the fact that I, a person who uses "vel sim." in grocery lists, am probably not representative of the general population of English-language-users

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I feel like I'm doing baby's first citational ethics with what is perhaps the most clear-cut case possible

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

great how my running dissertation to-do list includes such lovely items as "add more sexual assault to chapter 2," "monster footnote on dating that nobody asked for," and just "trauma"

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 03/06/2026

'Egyptian/Phoenician Glass Dog Head Bead, 6th-4th Century BC' www.lotsearch.net/lot/egyptian...

A pale blue glass bead moulded as a dog's head with applied ears, eyes and nose.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The history of the West shows that many of its greatest leaders, from the Greeks and the Romans forward, lost humiliating wars to Persia. by Niall Ferguson

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I like the part of the Odyssey at the Phaeacian court where Homer has Odysseus turn to the camera and say: "Now, we've all been having a lot of fun here today, but let's remember who the REAL heroes are---the hardworking bards and harpers in your own neighborhood. Remember to leave a tip, kids."

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

papyrology! in the dissertation footnotes

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

had students pick a historical Roman to do an optional Latin composition assignment about for extra credit, and I will clearly be getting many more submissions about Caesar than about women. probably should've seen that coming.

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I feel like I should give extra credit points to whichever student has the most pageviews on Canvas by the end of the quarter

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

not a movie, but there IS a middle-grade/YA novel (The Courtesan's Daughter by Priscilla Galloway) based on Against Neaera, which is an interesting court speech to choose for that target audience

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Present, Future, Aorist, Perfect, Pluperfect, Aorist Passive 🏺

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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Can’tvas

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I may have gotten into the wrong era of theater, all the plays I work on have boring titles like "Ajax" or "Agamemnon"

screenshot of text from Wikipedia: "The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First, sirnamed Edward Longshankes, with his returne from the holy land. ALSO THE LIFE OF LLEVELLEN rebell In Wales. Lastly, the sinking of Queen Elinor, who sunck at Charingcrosse, and rose againe at Pottershith, now named Queenehith. is a play by George Peele, published 1593, chronicling the career of Edward I of England."

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

major breakthrough in conceptualizing non-speaking performers in Greek drama when I realized that Pylades and Orestes in both Electras and Polydeuces and Castor in Electra and Helen are basically this

closeup image of the two soldiers from the original Broadway production of Sunday in the Park with George. The one on the left is a life-size cardboard cutout of the figure of one of the soldiers from the painting Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The one on the right is a human actor costumed to resemble the other soldier.

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Rebecca Posner-Hess @krokopeplos.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

mollior lacte coacto is really a top-tier compliment

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