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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Saw the Sex Purge movie today. There’s a scene where they’re eating visibly cold pizza, but the actors are selling that good (“the best I’ve ever had!”) and that it’s hot out of the oven. Again, cheese was clearly not warm… A metaphor for the movie: clearly cold pizza we’re told is hot

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The discourse is moving on from the Odyssey, but one thing I’d like to see more of from Classicists is long-term perspective, less “Nolan’s film is bad/good and here’s why”. What does his adaptation say about today? What does it say about Homer? How does it fit within the tradition?

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I liked the Odyssey more as a movie the second time. As an adaptation, about the same. I wish it had Achilles

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Nolan’s Odyssey was an awesome, if flawed, movie. Speaking only about Classicists, we tend to gate keep when it comes to modern adaptations in a way that does the field a disservice

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I taught a few classes with Emily Wilson’s translation (a class on the epic tradition, a classical mythology class) and I quite like it. Her Iliad is good too. Her review of Nolan’s missed the mark by a wide margin. Maddeningly so

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Lucretius is the Lin Manuel Miranda of his day. *ducks back into the shadows*

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The only good adaptation of Homer would be one true to its roots: Footage of a series of poets reciting the poem in its entirety, not necessarily in order, in various ancient Greek dialects.

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Plato’s version of Socrates has him constantly asking his interlocutors to define their terms and the interlocutors famously took it well. But seriously, we need more definition in our discourse(s)

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Saw my first Waymo in the Twin Cities. It had a support the troops ribbon magnet and was pulling up to Trader Joe’s. Heckuva of a combo

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Halfway through the decade! What are your favorite films each year so far? 2020: Minari 2021: West Side Story 2022: Tár 2023: Killers of the Flower Moon 2024: Anora 2025: Sinners

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Well, it certainly caught my attention and, as a piece of marketing, I’d say that means it worked. Hopefully the movie’s good!

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I went to see Mad Max: Fury Road knowing basically nothing ahead of time. Getting up to leave after it was done, I looked back at my seat, knowing I’d never be the same again

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Did this program about a decade ago, in grad school, and it was one of the best learning experiences I’ve had. If you, try to go.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

*everybody who has paid off or is still paying off their bachelor's degree in classics* OK THANKS CHRIS I'VE GOT THIS IT'S GENITIVE OF SUUM GENUS, "HIS/HER/ITS OWN KIND," GENITIVE OF ATTRIBUTE, YOU GOT ANY MORE QUESTIONS LIKE THIS YOU CALL ME UP OK I'M RIGHT OVER HERE

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Agree with this deeply until the Aeneid enters the conversation

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Edina, MN. I’d also say Monticello (because of the more famous one) but that dang C can go both ways

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I used to sell Dippin’ Dots as my summer job during the 00s. If a customer asked me my favorite flavor, I always said vanilla. They only rarely got it, but it is. Truly. And vanilla Dots as a root beer float? That’s bliss

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Lost a spelling bee in elementary school because I thought there were two spellings for SENTENCE, one for the “prison” kind and one for the “group of words/phrases” kind.

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Has to be that “ye” like “ye olde shoppe” wasn’t pronounced “yee” but the y is how they represented the now-lost letter thorn (þ, a th- sound)

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Been out of the field for a minute but UChicago seemed like one of the bastions that would never fold only a few years ago…

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

This idea also applies to what people say on the internet: You can just…not like a thing. You don’t have to announce it to the world. It’s much easier

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The Fabelmans (his most recent) and before that, West Side Story (the next most recent)…then you have to go back a whopping 9 years to Lincoln.

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I’m biased (come get the Green Apple Sucker Ice Cream!) but some of these foods looks mighty tasty. Some also look like they’d offend the gods for their hubris. Can’t wait to try them.

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

You’re telling that a new writing medium was invented and in the shift to the new medium we lost volumes of the old medium? You don’t say! What a surprise!

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The best part about these lists is seeing everyone else’s with other great movies and remembering how good movies are

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Do you have your favourite Coen Brothers’ films? Here are my top 5. In order of like. 1. O Brother Where Art Thou? 2. Fargo 3. The Big Lebowski 4. Inside Llewyn Davis 5. No Country for Old Men #FilmSky

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Chris Nolan is stepping on my corner but a 5 or 6 season show that adapts the Iliad, Aeneid, and Odyssey in that order

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks is close to the cut off but Street Legal makes it in a walk (and you could do another 15 years after that…)

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Homer was famously a film buff. Watched so many movies he went blind

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

No, not Big Balls. How could that possibly be true?

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Not even the AI read my dissertation 😩

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Haven’t gotten a code for the Criterion flash sales twice now and it’s starting to make me feel lonely

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Oscars Best Picture tiers: Anora The Brutalist Dune: Part Two Nickel Boys A Complete Unknown Conclave The Substance I’m Still Here Wicked Emilia Peréz

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Where all my Bob Dylan heads at?

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Grad school taught me many things, but this was one of the most unexpected

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Why is nobody talking about the La Croix ad (“it has 0 grams of sugar!”) in Den of Thieves 2: Pantera? Did I imagine it?

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Son of Atreus @olwags.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Bastard out of Carolina was the first assigned book I remember liking (if you can use that word for that book). Absolutely loathed The Awakening.

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