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Monday, February 3, 2025

...Is Reverent

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What does it mean to be reverent in a society with multiple mutually incompatible religions? One can't believe everything about all of t...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Callimachus: The Nerd of Alexandria

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 After the completion of the Oedipus at Colonus , the group chose to take an 'interregnum' before starting the Hippolytus of Euripid...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

Awa Pit

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Lately, I've been digging in the linguistic mines of Awa Pit, a South American language which has a feature with the fear-inducing name ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus: The Anti-Iliad

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 Recently our Greek group finished reading Oedipus at Colonus , the last, posthumously produced, play of the tragedian Sophocles of Colonus ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Seven Lines for Book the Seventh

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Tu quoque litoribus nostris, Aeneia nutrix aeternam moriens famam, Caieta, dedisti; et nunc servat honos sedem tuus ossaque nomen Hesperia i...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Searchers of the Flower Moon

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 A piece of trivia easily passed over in the grim Killers of the Flower Moon  is the reference to a Scout troop aiding in the search for the...
Thursday, November 7, 2024

Genoa: One Hell of An American Town

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 Genoa, Nevada (pronounced je-NO-a) might be the most American town ever, right down to its assocation with the most American religion ever....
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Classical Languages major, Medieval History major, linguistics geek
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