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The Homer Hotline @thehomerhotline.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I have just interviewed Prof. Dr. Anton Bierl, editor of the Basler Kommentar on the Iliad and professor emeritus of Greek in the Department Altertumswissenschaften at the University of Basel. You can look forward to that in Season 2, September 2026! daw.philhist.unibas.ch/de/personen/...

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Bierl Anton F.H. | Departement Altertumswissenschaften | Universität Basel

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The Homer Hotline @thehomerhotline.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

You'll have to take this megaron from my cold, dead hands.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Happy birthday Billy Shax!! — here’s the extra long, live special episode of You’re Dead To Me we did about Shakespeare, with our fantastic guests @herring1967.bsky.social & Prof Farah Karim-Cooper www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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You're Dead to Me - Shakespeare - BBC Sounds

Greg Jenner and guests present a special edition from the Shakespeare North Playhouse.

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Charlayn von Solms @charlayn.eurosky.social · 23/04/2026

I'm plotting an open studio day/week for some time in mid-May. If you're in or near Cape Town then, and are interested in seeing where the sausage is made, let me know if you'd like to visit. In the meantime, here is a terrible video about gods, countdowns, judgment day, and satellites.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫

A cute figurine of a bear made from amber. It looks like a gummy bear

A figurine of a hippo with a hole in his back and a loop of gold going through the hole. The figurine is made of a transparent glassy material. Rock crystal, perhaps. It looks not unlike a Foxe's glacier mint.

A carved bust of a bearded man in a brown material, against a red background. If you told us it was carved from chocolate, we wouldn't argue.

A figurine of a hippo in a green material (nephrite, apparently, whatever that is). It looks like it could be a wine gum, but one of the green ones that no one really likes.

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Helen Lovatt @helenlovatt.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I was thinking about music, but sport is an equally helpful analogy. Need to train, avoid injury, build stamina, warm up and warm down. We don’t do any of this (to my knowledge) which may be one of the reasons mental health is under so much pressure. Academia as performance discipline.

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GhileneH @ghilene.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Ça promet!

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

DAWN OF THE DEAD (Anagram-Haiku) Woodland: The day breaks. Another dead body walks and wreaks bloody death.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Now I've heard there was a dreadful post That when it's read man it sucks the most But you don't really care for posting, do ya? It goes like this, log off you tit The dreadful dork, the major grift The baffled posters saying "Please touch grass, mate" Please touch grass mate Please touch grass mate

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

huh weird, did republicans make some kind of colossal historic fuckup in the past few weeks? polymarket.com/event/which-...

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Hello. Been away. Here’s a near perfectly preserved shield (or hoplon) found at Olympia in Greece. If you zoom in, you’ll see little holes in the rim used to tie on a leather cover. It was probably dedicated as a gift to Zeus. 🏛️ Hellenic Museum, Melbourne 🕰️ c 500 BC

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The Homer Hotline @thehomerhotline.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Have you ever wanted a tie-dyed number with stony-faced Homer and a nuclear phone? Check out our merch! www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8815...

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

These days, every day feels like Friday the 13th.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺

Cylindrical glass beads in bright shades of blue and turquoise with white horizontal stripes

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 12/03/2026

The Delphic Oracle spoke: “If you launch this war, you will destroy a great empire and enemy of world peace, and your name will be remembered for millennia.”

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Aven @avensarah.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

They couldn’t have found a better example of the profound lack of understanding these machines and their promoters have of language, literature, and human communication styles if they had been trying to discredit AI!

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philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Here is a report of some exploratory work transforming a traditional Greek textbook (Crosby and Schaeffer) into something truly digital. sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...

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Towards corpus-based learning: exercises with Ancient Greek » Perseus Digital Library Updates

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Charlayn von Solms @charlayn.eurosky.social · 04/03/2026

For poetry follow @caterwaulerin.bsky.social For writing follow @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social and @dougboin.bsky.social For ancient lit podcast follow @thehomerhotline.bsky.social For collage follow @paulxhearn.bsky.social For ducks and hilarity follow @wildobliquities.bsky.social

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I've admired @kevinsolez.bsky.social since he contributed expertise on Homer to Pharos when we were writing about the casting of David Gyasi to play Achilles. He's now hosting expert guests, including @sentantiq.bsky.social, at his "Homer Hotline" on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C30u...

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Of Narratives and Nature with Prof. Joel Christensen (ep. 103)

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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Thank you, Curtis!

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

WORD FACT Greek “dramein” (“to run”) and the related noun “dromos” (“running, racecourse”) ultimately give us: Hippodrome → A racecourse for chariots (“Hippo-” = horse) Dromedary → via Greek “dromas kamelos” (“running camel”) and Late Latin “dromedarius” [1/2]

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Mysteriously all the Epstein news seems to have quieted down. Ditto ICE domestic terror. And replaced with gross loss of lives and global destabilization. 😖🤬

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/03/2026

Hell. Hell is where you go.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 02/03/2026

Perhaps it’s the time of the morning, but Radio 4 Today seems quite obscenely cheerful and upbeat about the war - they’re having a whale of a time, especially the presenter who’s gone to Tel Aviv for a bit of a thrill. Utterly unserious.

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The Homer Hotline @thehomerhotline.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I mean...LOL. Keep withholding the funding; it appears to be working.

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The Homer Hotline @thehomerhotline.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Is it a bit on the nose, @sentantiq.bsky.social, as if they called it "The Persian Wars"?

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Operation Epic Fury. A reminder, a certain epic hero's rage sent countless of his own people to their deaths.

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Andrew Reinhard, PhD, RPA @adreinhard.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

In 2007, Trent Reznor was four years too early with the events he wrote about in Year Zero, which he set in an imagined 2022. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qSsR...

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Nine Inch Nails - Survivalism

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The Homer Hotline @thehomerhotline.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I mean, the Americans couldn't be more on the nose with their Classical references even if they had called the operation "The Persian Wars."

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The Homer Hotline @thehomerhotline.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Breaking News: American "Department of War" invokes Iliad 1.1 with its moniker "Epic Fury." In fact, it reprises the very first word of the epic for the name of its Iran operation.

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The Homer Hotline @thehomerhotline.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This is a first for me. I was recently interviewed by one of my heroes in #Homeric studies, Prof. Donna F. Wilson. We talked about the #anthropology of the ancient #Mediterranean world and my academic trajectory from @ualberta.bsky.social to @jhu.edu to UBC. Please enjoy! youtu.be/WCzgIdjBvRw?...

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HH 0107--Of Feasts and Other Heroic Feats with Dr. Kevin Solez and Guest Host Prof. Donna Wilson!

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity / Isabelle Torrance (ed) www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... #openaccess @clic-erc.bsky.social @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @daireach.bsky.social @pomuirch.bsky.social @ciaranruaoneill.bsky.social @kironward.bsky.social

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

94 entries into my spreadsheet of Homer quotations in Pollux and I FINALLY found something from one of the Homeric Hymns! I have been waiting for this moment (can I give up for the day now?)

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

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The Homer Hotline @thehomerhotline.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Today marks one week since Season 1 of The Homer Hotline was released. I draw your attention to Episode 1, the interview with my dear friend Prof. Andrew McClellan of San Diego State University. Please enjoy this interview, and thank you, Andy! From Musqueam with love ~K youtu.be/Cvp6bdgY1no?...

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Of Corpses and Psychological Warfare with Prof. Andrew McClellan (EP. 101)

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The Homer Hotline @thehomerhotline.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I've never had #merch before, but here goes! You can get your #Homer Hotline t-shirts and other gear at the link below. The first $1500 of the proceeds goes to paying our editorial and graphics team, and further funds will be for #podcast #production! Enjoy! www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8815...

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