Dr. Valerie
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Classicist researching the points of contact between Ancient Greek and Bedouin poetry. Arabic For Philologists Soring Term loading…
Caution, makes frequent stops
Joined February 2018
RT @ArmandDAngour: The world is too much with us; late and soon Getting and spending, we lay waste our lives. — Wordsworth res urgent ni…
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The chorus in question is composed of Erinyes sent from the underworld to avenge the murder of Clytemnestra at the hands of her son, Orestes. Weighty lines indeed.
ξυμφέρε�� σωφρονεῖν ὑπὸ στένει. It is useful to grow wise under sorrow. –– Sung by the Chorus in Aeschylus' Eumenides (520), performed, as the last play of the Oresteia, in 458 BC.
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People have been giving animals cute little nicknames since time immemorial, a thread:
“Dog,” “pig,” “frog,” and “hog” share a strange secret. These everyday words all appeared in English around 1000 years ago. But to this day, no one knows for sure where they came from. This is the puzzling story of the most mysterious words in the English language... 🧵
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(What happened to the formatting? It didn’t look like that when I posted it. Ugh).
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@joshissimo_ Yes, that’s what the Latin translation says. The Arabic has a bit of a different sense, though.
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Wednesday Wisdom: He can’t keep things to himself. Freytag, Arabum proverbia, vol. 2 no. 320 p. 500, 1839.
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RT @AntigoneJournal: πιστὸς ἐν κακοῖς ἀνὴρ | κρείσσων γαλήνης ναυτίλοισιν εἰσορᾶν. During troubles a trustworthy man is a better sight than…
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RT @ArmandDAngour: Worth explaining the context of the joke. Still laughing at the poor man 2400 years later…
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RT @AntigoneJournal: A brilliant little compendium. If you love Greek, you will love this; if you make friends with this, you will make fri…
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Wednesday Wisdom: I won’t do that, as long as there is a star in the sky. Freytag, Arabum proverbia, vol. 2 no. 345a p. 512, 1839.
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RT @AGROS_edu: Correlative Adverbs. Greek with Latin glosses. 📖 Hintner: Griechische Schulgrammatik, Wien 1899.
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I’ve always thought that if Julius Caesar was teleported into our time, he would not be at all surprised to learn that his name had transformed into a royal title.
Julius Caesar changed the course of history. But his greatest legacy wasn't any battle he won — it was his name. The name “Caesar” was so powerful that rulers were still using it into the 20th century. Here's how one man's name became synonymous with supreme power ... 🧵
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@theancientgeeko Yeah, I know how that is. On the bright side, once things start flowing, it’s often easier to see the shape that the piece should take.
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@theancientgeeko Editing your own work is really tough! Sometimes it’s hard to cut anything and other times it’s hard to keep from just starting all over again. Good luck!
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