“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
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
got they/themmed at the conference talk 👍
“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
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
curse of liking musicians who are famous enough to have wikipedia pages but not famous enough that there’s a ‘personal life’ section
and so we enter the third month of me editing my “november 2025” playlist
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
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
oh i am NOT beating the dead language allegations
classical philology will have you googling stuff like “how much meat in a cow”
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
fun ongoing bit that i have with myself is that every year i select a different spelling for the holiday