HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT
15 years ago, a group of us started The Pericles Group (periclesgroup.org) in order to formally work on our games & learning endeavors. It has been an amazingly fulfilling ride creating Operation LAPIS, successful Kickstarters (CARD-tamen, VERBA, Underlings of Underwing), (1/7)
A cake in the shape of a sheep with “baa” and imperfect written on it.
Call pops that look like busts of Roman emperors
A cake that appears as a broken Roman column
A cake in the form of a loaf of Pompeian street bread.
Check out these amazing cakes my Latin students made this year for #WorldLanguageWeek!
Sheep are the most “imperfect” of animals! Baaa! Roman emperor cake pops! A broken column! Pompeian bread!
Thank you! So sweet! Keep posting beautiful photos for us all! 😊
I hear they’ve got guts. (My much better second reply try)
Do you want to improve your knowledge of medieval manuscripts from England? Book now for this summer school course, in person, in London, 8-12 June. 👇☀️📚 #medievalsky please repost!
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Signed photo of Chase Masterson as Leeta from DS9 dedicated to me from a Star Trek convention circa 1996
Oh yay!! That’s amazing! Chase was at one of my very first conventions when I was 16 and starry eyed and she was so sweet to dorky lil me!
Hi! Ok, thank you! Depending on how my weekend shakes out, there may be an abstract from me! Quis scit?
Don’t know that I’ll ultimately have time to throw together an abstract (especially if deadline is tomorrow!) but seeing as the conference is in Boston I figured I’d at least ask for clarification
Hi! Two questions -first, deadline in the CFP doc says “Friday, March 1 at 5pm” but March first is Sunday? So is deadline tomorrow? Or Sunday? Second, is a specific medieval reception of Ovid, especially regarding the poet’s “dialogue” with Ovid w/r/t role of author & purpose of epic a valid topic?
Yes! I always tell students “sheep are the most imperfect of animals” 🐑 baaaaa
it also helps to teach them that the verb for “to bleat” is “balare”
“Ovis balabat, oves balabant” etc
I’m not trying to “catch them” as these are all on the study guide and we’ve worked with them in class, but rather refresh the vocab we’ve done that they’ll need to do the sight readings in the reading part of the test.
So here’s an example of a HS Latin V exam (offered as dual enrollment, so equivalent to a 5th semester Latin lit course.) This was for our intro to poetry unit covering some Catullus, Ovid, Martial, and Sulpicia. I do vocab as Latin to Latin synonyms, antonyms, short definitions, breaking compounds
Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson in Shanghai Noon
Shanghai Noon! Honestly a super smart and fun take on the genre.
(But also For a Few Dollars More, Unforgiven)
screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM: MSNOW - State of the union TCM East- Gaslight
Masterful Troll, TCM.
Happy to share with you any number of mine. They always focus on vocab, sight reading comprehension and interpretation rather than translation
Ok real question though- doesn’t this have potential to go the complete opposite way? As in on the off chance he does somehow send out refund checks they will certainly have his name all over them and he can claim (falsely) “I made foreigners pay you money through my tariffs.” A lie of course but…
A mug with an image of Jesus and the labeling “Jesus is coming … look busy.”
A friend got me this mug like 20 years ago and was long my favorite until the handle broke a few years back. But I couldn’t get rid of it… a classic!
Very proud to be a part of the Classics Association of New England (CANE) where we not only rejected any attempt to retreat from our DEI initiatives, but in fact doubled down on them and further enshrined them in our mission and scholarships.
On Thurs, Feb. 19, I'll be speaking at UC Davis about my recent co-authored project, a late 6th century BCE statue of a dwarf woman that was dedicated on the Athenian Acropolis. A recording of the talk from the Fall is available on YouTube, if you're interested!
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“The Penis Mightier? You’re sitting on a gold mine, Trebek!”
Id est vento celerius eam bibisti?
I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
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It shows! Keep up the excellent work.
Excellent post, as always!
I made another blog post for the Pliny haters. This one's about his omissions of esse, which are neither very unusual nor very challenging for students, but people need something to complain about I guess
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Raskin to Bondi: "You're not showing a lot interest in the victims. Whether it's Epstein's human trafficking ring or the homicidal government violence against citizens in Minneapolis, as AG you're siding with the perpetrators and ignoring the victims."
Curling might have the largest gap of any sport between “That looks so easy - I could do that!” and reality. Here I am in Quebec 2 years ago trying for the first time 😂 #Olympics
I don’t really disagree, but just know from experience that it isn’t universally conceived of or applied that way.
Yeah, I totally understand about that - I think it’s all part of the sort of “hidden curriculum” that those of us who don’t have academics in the family often discover only through often embarrassing mistakes. And agree titles should have meaning, sadly I just think they aren’t applied consistently.
