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finelythreadedsky:

“none of those words are in the bible” but it’s me nitpicking about what textile manufacturing techniques weren’t invented until late antiquity and are thus anachronistic translations of biblical language

I know this is always a futile and somewhat-unreasonable plea, but, uh, please don’t tag this as #christianity

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who performed the first burial of Polynices in Sophocles’ Antigone?

Ismene

the gods

Antigone did both burials

another character in the play (specify in replies!)

some anonymous ordinary Theban

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got they/themmed at the conference talk 👍

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“none of those words are in the bible” but it’s me nitpicking about what textile manufacturing techniques weren’t invented until late antiquity and are thus anachronistic translations of biblical language

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devastated to announce that i spent all fall doing tudor blackwork embroidery on a button-down shirt and you can’t even see the embroidered part if i wear a blazer with it

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curse of liking musicians who are famous enough to have wikipedia pages but not famous enough that there’s a ‘personal life’ section

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and so we enter the third month of me editing my “november 2025” playlist

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that’s my emotional support 60-something professor halfway across the country whose tenure line i tell myself i’m going to get when they retire

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cover of The Weight of Ink by Rachel KadishALT
cover of Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre by Peter D. ArnottALT
cover of Hag-Seed by Margaret AtwoodALT
cover of The Body and the Senses in Greek Tragedy by Afroditi AngelopoulouALT
cover of Home Fire by Kamila ShamsieALT
cover of The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus by Sarah NooterALT
cover of The Island of Missing Trees by Elif ShafakALT
cover of Ugly Productions: An Aesthetics of Greek Drama by A. C. DuncanALT
cover of Hamnet by Maggie O'FarrellALT

2025: my best books of the year

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something something herodotus 7.15-17, esther 6:6-11, what is it with the persian king dressing another guy up in his own clothes

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oh i am NOT beating the dead language allegations

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classical philology will have you googling stuff like “how much meat in a cow”

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tranz-josef:

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Of the early 20th century modernist female Yiddish poets there are a few contenders but I do think celia dropkin would be the most likely to kill it on tumblr

set to music by Frank London, sung by Lorin Sklamberg and Adrienne Cooper

mad respect to the people who study greek middle comedy, that stuff is fragmentary as hell

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fun ongoing bit that i have with myself is that every year i select a different spelling for the holiday

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