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Moa Ekbom

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Jourhavande filolog Forskare vid KTH Future Humanities Initiative Här är antologin jag redaktörat: appellforlag.se/bok/oavsett-vad-vi-…

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.
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Princeton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure (Gift Article)
Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message.
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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Och så blev det ngra rader om Carson i Göteborgs Posten! www.gp.se/kultur/komme...
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Hos Nobelpristagaren blir hjälten Herakles en queer hjärtekrossare
Anne Carson tar sig an antikens trasiga texter med lärdom, lekfullhet och en sällsynt frihet.
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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Skrek rakt ut vid tillkännagivandet och sprang till SvD för att prata i mun om Anne Carsons Nobelpris med andra fangirls i en blixtpodd: www.svd.se/a/qyyArm/ska...
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Heta tipset: ”Go, go, go ’Makens skönhet’”
Valet av Anne Carson möts av glädje av tre fangirls. ”Jag skrek yes och viftade med händerna”, säger en medlem i kulturpanelen när Nobelpriset i litteratur dissekeras i en blixtpodd.
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
anne carson is proof that a phd in the humanities provides you with transferable skills
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Ida Ölmedal @idaolmedal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ärligt talat, vem är INTE nyfiken på kulturvärldens powercouple Skarp/Guillou? Här kan ni lyssna på vår livepodd från Bokmässan! ”Mitt livs kärlek” tyckte de var ett lite lökigt namn på podden – men Jan väjde inte för att berätta om hur han raggade upp Ann-Marie. www.svd.se/a/2VGBpr/par...
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Guillous lyckade knep – dök upp på fredagsöl
Författaren Jan Guillou och förläggaren Ann-Marie Skarp hör till Sveriges mest inflytelserika kulturpar. På bokmässan i Göteborg mötte de SvD:s Ida Ölmedal i en livepodd om böckerna och livet tillsamm...
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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Likaså ENORMT skojigt!
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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Äntligen! Det var verkligen dags för den att gå i graven, och vilken bonus att det skedde på det absolut skojigaste viset!
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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
Dessutom har de faktiskt typ samma frisyr!
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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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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Eller ngt med kentaurer
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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Penthesilea och Akilles!
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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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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Nä, WET VIRGIL WINTER väntar!
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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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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Awww! Tack!
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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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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
OTROLIG!
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Isobel Hadley-Kamptz @isobelhk.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Att mota svensk historielöshet är svårare än att ta sig hem från Troja www.dn.se/ledare/isobe...
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Isobel Hadley-Kamptz: Antiknördarnas revanschsommar – men inte i Sverige
Som denna heta homeriska sommar visat så längtar människor efter den antika kulturen. En dag kanske den insikten också når Sverige.
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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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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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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
HOT! HOMER! SUMMER!
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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
YES PLEASE!
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Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Every morning I just open my phone and let the wine-dark sea of tempests and furore POUR over me! Never been happier!
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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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FabienBP @fabienbp.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026
Le Monde m'a invité à écrire une tribune à propos de l'adaptation de l'Odyssée par Christopher Nolan, mise en ligne aujourd'hui, disponible dans le numéro en kiosque ces dimanche et lundi 🏺 www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl... 📰 @lemonde.fr
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« “L’Odyssée” de Christopher Nolan est probablement l’une des adaptations cinématographiques les plus fidèles aux textes homériques »
TRIBUNE. Le film du réalisateur britannico-américain invite à une réflexion riche et nuancée sur l’humanité. Ce faisant, il fait résonner l’œuvre d’Homère avec le présent, relève l’historien Fabien Bi...
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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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