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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Gun-Britt Sundström är Sveriges Dolly Parton. Jag tänker inte förklara mig ytterligare.

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Alla röster räknade: TJEJ NY ÅR!!!

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Har NYSS idag insett att Nils Littorin och Marcus Allard är två olika personer.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In this week in the year 476, the insignificant boy-emperor Romulus (nicknamed Augustulus) was deposed by Odoacer, leader of the western Roman field army in Italy. This event has received notoriety as "the fall of the [western] Roman empire". A thread on one of the biggest Bad Ancient History takes.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It doesn't really sink in how insane the Roman Empire was until you write a sentence like "We have the skeleton of a man in York who was bitten by a lion."

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Är tjej-nyåret innan eller efter valet? Vad händer om det blir 90 dagars regeringsbildning? Eller nyval? BEHÖVER BESKED, vill bara handla blommiga anteckningsböcker och tjusiga strumpbyxor!

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I wrote for Vogue about 5 very different books that each in different ways shaped my approach to translating the Odyssey (the first time). www.vogue.com/article/requ...

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Required Reading: Five Books That Inspired Emily Wilson’s Translation of ‘The Odyssey’

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Microhistories Retold: Insects in the Premodern World / Edited by Przemysław Marciniak www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social #openaccess @marcopouget.bsky.social @dominikberrens.bsky.social @quosego.bsky.social

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"I have to be blunt here: Our critics are really fucking stupid, and we’ve given them way too much leeway to conjure senile fantasies out of their own illiteracy. We need to stop taking their trolling in good faith..."

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Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector

For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Bildningspoddens serie om Odysséen består av 7 underbara avsnitt! Hot! Homer! Summer! pågår än, än är det inte höst. Det finns även ett 8e bonusavsnitt om filmen! Däri förfäktar jag att Nolan MÅSTE läst från sång 2 av Aeneiden och bekänner min kärlek till Antinous! soundcloud.com/user-6761308...

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#08 Bonusavsnitt: Nolan och lyssnarfrågor

Kan Odysseus simma? Finns det vikingar i Odysséen? Och vad tycker Homeros-experterna om Christopher Nolans "The Odyssey"? I detta bonusavsnitt av "Sommar med Odysséen" diskuterar vi sommarens Odysseu

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Emily Wilson Writing reviews of a film that she's sad to have seen Yells at the screen Picks up her laptop Nolan's pastiche of the epic she worked to translate How does it rate? All the shallow film tropes Where do they all come from? All of Homer's richness Where did it all go wrong?

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

[James Stewart as Odysseus] now listen here, Agamemnon, I'm going home, y'see. You keep your fancy armour, I'm getting off this crummy ol' beach. [Spotting the Cyclops] now here's a curious fella, he's only got one peeper

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 04/08/2026

Emily Wilson gets one more piece on The Odyssey and then she needs to move on and let us know what she thinks about Mallrats

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🪲 A Bug's Life... but in the past. "Microhistories Retold: Insects in the Premodern World", edited by Przemysław Marciniak, explores how insects were observed, interpreted, and represented across cultures in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Brand new and OA! ⬇️ www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A little Roman octopus to wish you a happy week! 🐙❤️ From a Roman villa mosaic at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, AD 100-200. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

My photo shows a mosaic fragment from the floor of a Roman villa in Spain, dated AD 100-200s. It depicts a stylised octopus using red, yellow, white, and black limestone tesserae, against an off-white background. The front-facing octopus appears almost cartoon-like, with a large red and white head and body outlined in black. Its yellow circular eyes are outlined in black with a central black dot which stare out at the viewer. Below the head and body are eight writhing arms.

This octopus and other fragmentary animal mosaics were discovered in the 19th century at the Hermitage of Santa Colomba, Villaquejida, León, which had been built on the site of a Roman villa.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Nobody will ever make a proper adaptation of The Odyssey or The Iliad because modern audiences simply cannot understand how sweet a really nice golden tripod is.

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I am going to get so pregged up by a swan on klovharun … when I return I will slide out the egg … and this will be the development in odyssey discourse you never expected to see

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Allegedly Nolan had comrades tie him to a ship's mast before being read Wilson's review

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Srsly, am having the BEST SUMMER EVER, every day brings more Homeric discourse; philology slap fights, livid classicists, Odyssean hot takes, and translators who rage! THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER LIKE IT!

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I also appreciate Emily Wilson as a woman in a male dominated role, by which I don’t mean translator or classicist or public scholar but rather “curmudgeon.”

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

On the one hand I literacy is in decline, our collective capacity for attention & critical thought has been grievously eroded, and all of us are getting stupider, easier to exploit, and less alert to beauty. On the other hand, pop culture is currently dominated by a war of competing classicists.

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog

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hermanos. @iamdavidbrothers.com · 27/07/2026

Homer called it a "wine-dark sea" because Cool Blue was the most popular flavor of wine back in those days. lost to history now, I'm afraid. climate change and all.

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Det är en fantastisk sommar för en filolog, med en ständigt ivrig Homeros-debatt! Glädjen i att inte bara originalet utan även dess många mångförslagna varianter och adaptioner uppmärksammas! En gnutta brännstoff till HOT HOMER SUMMER om en mindre lyckad dito: tidskriftenrespons.se/artikel/irrf...

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Irrfärd på villovägar - Respons

Lagom till biopremiären av Christopher Nolans The Odyssey ges Stephen Frys tolkning av diktverket ut på svenska. Men liksom Homeros epos gör den sig sannolikt bättre hörd än läst.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

lol. Our trip to see the Odyssey in NYC made it into @variety.com. And I had to dir at this snippet from @sentantiq.bsky.social: variety.com/2026/film/ne... This is a great review.

"We had a really robust debate," says Joel
P. Christensen, editor of "The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey." Christensen was accompanied by retired Homer scholars (often referred to as Homerists), editors, professors, historians and various public intellectuals. "And my wife is a dentist," he adds, "so she was the red herring in the crowd."

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

HOT HOMER SUMMER rullar på och såsom dagens pensum anbefalles Malin Nauwercks ypperliga essä i @aftonbladetkultur.bsky.social om Odysséen och romance och boksnittytor och feministisk analys och tonårsflickor: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/d4M...

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Går bortom de sviniga Odysseus-männen

Antiken genom kvinnorna

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I och med att Christopher Nolans redan omdiskuterade filmatisering av Odysséen kommer om bara ngra veckor så utlyses härmed HOT HOMER SUMMER! För att fira det har 20TAL lagt min text från 2022 (!!!) om översättning av Odysséen (och om hår) online, helt gratis: 20tal.se/aktuellt/tje...

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Tjej-Homeros - 20TAL

Får vem som helst översätta? Hur mycket är de val som görs färgade av översättarnas fördomar och liv? I essän »Tjej-Homeros«, publicerade i 20TAL nr 7 2022, undersöker filologen Moa Ekbom hur män och ...

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Noterar att KD nu försöker nå väljargruppen dyslektiker, spännande strategi!

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A remarkable discovery at Aspendos: archaeologists have uncovered a Roman mosaic showing the river god Eurymedon. Dating to the 3rd century AD, it adds a new highlight to the city’s rich ancient heritage. 👉 www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/rare...

Mosaic with a central framed panel showing a reclining figure among plants, surrounded by a geometric border of triangles and circular motifs.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Eels are classic. And also classical! In fact, they're the only fish mentioned by name in Homer's Iliad. In Book 21, Achilles kills a Trojan in the River Scamander. Like ya do. And immediately, the eels begin to nibble on the dead man's kidneys. Nibble. 'Cause eels are dainty. 🗃️🧪

Meme. Ancient Greek-style art of 2 warriors fighting in front of a wall, with the Trojan horse in the background. The scene is orange tinted, with the warriors in black. The warrior on the right wears a shield, helmet, & a swashbuckling cloak. He holds a spear and is lunging forward to stab his opponent. The warrior on the left has no armor. He has an arrow in his ankle, and so is probably Achilles. He has a sword raised, but it's not going to help. He's about to be stabbed, and he can't even reach his foe. The scene looks very much like a Mortal Combat level.

Behind the men are the walls of the city, with the head of a giant horse rearing above the wall. It seems to watching the fight like a Pokemon battle. It's muzzle points towards the warrior on the right as if to say, "That's my dawg." Achilles, on the left, feels cold fingers around his heart. He had hoped the Horse would save him, but his hopes have been betrayed. The Horse is a cruel mistress.

Meme text reads:
"Home's
The Eeliad"

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

When at Centrale Montemartini, I stop to read the poem on the funerary altar for Q. Sulpicius Maximus. Really enjoying @twhittermarsh.bsky.social’s new article on the poem inscribed on it, written when he was 11 for Domitian’s games. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (photo by @chapps.bsky.social).

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Funerary altar of Quintus Sulpicius Maximus
This monument is the ultimate parents' brag about their child. If only it hadn't been posthumous. The altar comes fram the burial tomb of Quintus Sulpicius Maximus, whose remains were discovered in 1871 under the eastern tower of Porta Salaria, in the area of today's Piazza Fiume, during the demolition of the Honorian gate (393-423 AD).

The story of the young boy, depicted in the centre of the monument, is told in the long inscription engraved on the funerary altar, dedicated to him by his parents following his sudden death at the age of 11 years, five months and 12 days (yes, the Romans would sometimes relate the full age on these monuments). How had he died? As his parents explain, he had collapsed from too much hard work! Perhaps the parents had some guilt mixed in with that pride. But as former slaves themselves, it's perhaps understandable that they pushed their prodigy child to greater heights.

You might notice that this looks like an adult, not a child. This wasn't an uncommon Roman practice on funerary sculpture for children, showing them as they might have become, as their parents dreamed they would be. Very sad.

Sulpicius Maximus, who lived in the 1st century AD, during the reign of Emperor Domitian, had participated in an important Greek poetry competition organized as part of the Capitoline Certamen, a competition in gymnastics, equestrian sports, music and poetry. The talented boy had competed with 52 other poets, winning over the public and judges during the poetic improvisation contest.

The verses of the poem, in Greek, are reproduced on the scroll that the young boy is holding. The text was inspired by the myth of Phaeton, and is reproduced in its entirety on the marble shrine.

"Sacred to the Deified Shades of the Dead. In memory of Quintus Sulpicius Maximus, the son of …

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Yesterday was International Flamingo Day, but for this little guy it may as well have been a lifetime ago. 🧑‍🍳🍴🤤 #MosaicMonday

A roman mosaic consisting of a laurel outer border, around a decorative border resembling folded lined and in the centre is a trussed flamingo who has no idea what he has coming to him.

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

In 1500 words Nurayn Khan exhausts and deplores a tangential harvardness, whose essence is distilled from narrator Richard's attractions to a straightforward elitism. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The Secret History / Donna Tartt – #booksky theharvardpoliticalreview.com/tartt-secret...

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Harvard and The Secret History - Harvard Political Review

Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” in many ways, mirrors Harvard’s elitist culture, exposing the often harmful social dynamics that exclusive social spaces create.

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

✨Orpheus✨ This #MosaicMonday we celebrate Orpheus, whose musical gifts were such that he was capable of attracting all manner of animals to his side. In this mosaic panel, found near Edessa and dated to 194 CE, Orpheus plays his lyre and predator and prey alike are soothed by his song.

This mosaic scene shows Orpheus playing his lyre while birds, big cats, and other species gather around him.

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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Jag är VRED, förbannad och URSINNIG över den timme som stjäls av oss alla i natt!

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Dan Conway @magisterconway.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Virgo: Today is the first day of the rest of your miserable fucking life.

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