Professor Elton
@eltonteb.bsky.social
Prof of Greek Literature & Culture at The Open University | working-class Classicist | still delighting in Homer | dabbling in the digital | grappling with the politics of form & linked data | Pelagios partnership sec | hello to Jason | love the show Steve
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Professor Elton
@eltonteb.bsky.social
· Aug 29
Welcome to Pelagios Network
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Greetings all, I'm a classicist at the Open University with a passion for Homer, tragedy and historiography. I'm also helping to develop digital methods and tools to map texts with recogito.pelagios.org, and link data with pelagios.org. Always happy to give school talks on any of these topics!
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The programme for the Linked Pasts Symposium is now live!
This is online goal-oriented meeting taking place from 1-12 December for building, planning & learning about the application of linked open data (LOD) to historical texts, events & data
🔸More: www.atrium-research.eu/events/linke...
This is online goal-oriented meeting taking place from 1-12 December for building, planning & learning about the application of linked open data (LOD) to historical texts, events & data
🔸More: www.atrium-research.eu/events/linke...
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The programme for the Linked Pasts Symposium is now live!
This is online goal-oriented meeting taking place from 1-12 December for building, planning & learning about the application of linked open data (LOD) to historical texts, events & data
🔸More: www.atrium-research.eu/events/linke...
This is online goal-oriented meeting taking place from 1-12 December for building, planning & learning about the application of linked open data (LOD) to historical texts, events & data
🔸More: www.atrium-research.eu/events/linke...
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Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
www.newstatesman.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
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Left: Donald Trump’s Jan 6th quote, as presented in the dossier that brought down two BBC bosses
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Left: Donald Trump’s Jan 6th quote, as presented in the dossier that brought down two BBC bosses
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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‘An email from %Epstein to #Maxwell in April 2011 reads: "I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is #trump.. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him"’
New Epstein emails that mention Trump released by House Democrats - live updates
President Trump has previously said allegations about him relating to Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died in 2019, are a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Does anybody know anything about deduplication at the #internetarchive? Quite frequently people upload the same files as independent items, which could be prevent by checking against hashes.
See, for example, https://archive.org/details/Om-Alqura, which seems to be an exact copy of […]
See, for example, https://archive.org/details/Om-Alqura, which seems to be an exact copy of […]
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digitalcourage.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Does anybody know anything about deduplication at the #internetarchive? Quite frequently people upload the same files as independent items, which could be prevent by checking against hashes.
See, for example, https://archive.org/details/Om-Alqura, which seems to be an exact copy of […]
See, for example, https://archive.org/details/Om-Alqura, which seems to be an exact copy of […]
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Thersites’ Body: Description, Characterization, and Physiognomy in Iliad 2 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/04/t...
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Thersites’ Body: Description, Characterization, and Physiognomy in Iliad 2
Iliad 2.211-224 “The rest of them were sitting, and they had taken their seats.Only Thersites, a man of measureless speech, was still declaring–A man who knew many disordered things in his th…
sententiaeantiquae.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thersites’ Body: Description, Characterization, and Physiognomy in Iliad 2 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/04/t...
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/04/t...
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Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future / Lisa Brody, Anne Hunnell Chen (eds) #openaccess @brepols.net
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@julietsamsonconlon.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social
@lrbrody.bsky.social
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@julietsamsonconlon.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social
@lrbrody.bsky.social
Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future | Studies in Classical Archaeology
www.brepolsonline.net
November 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future / Lisa Brody, Anne Hunnell Chen (eds) #openaccess @brepols.net
www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
@julietsamsonconlon.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social
@lrbrody.bsky.social
www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
@julietsamsonconlon.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social
@lrbrody.bsky.social
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#digitalhumanities folk: could you please recommend significant work on topic modeling and small language models that you might have come across?
November 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
#digitalhumanities folk: could you please recommend significant work on topic modeling and small language models that you might have come across?
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New Blog post #HistDay25
Up the Lycabettus – lovely sunset: Amy Maud Hicks’ diary to Greece
Dr Rosario Rovira Guardiola explores a diary by Amy Maud Hicks, a well-known suffragette, during a trip to Greece in 1902 showcasing her early career as a Classicist & archaeologist: shorturl.at/W2i6Q
Up the Lycabettus – lovely sunset: Amy Maud Hicks’ diary to Greece
Dr Rosario Rovira Guardiola explores a diary by Amy Maud Hicks, a well-known suffragette, during a trip to Greece in 1902 showcasing her early career as a Classicist & archaeologist: shorturl.at/W2i6Q
Up the Lycabettus – lovely sunset: Amy Maud Hicks’ diary to Greece
Up the Lycabettus – lovely sunset: Amy Maud Hicks’ diary to Greec
shorturl.at
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
New Blog post #HistDay25
Up the Lycabettus – lovely sunset: Amy Maud Hicks’ diary to Greece
Dr Rosario Rovira Guardiola explores a diary by Amy Maud Hicks, a well-known suffragette, during a trip to Greece in 1902 showcasing her early career as a Classicist & archaeologist: shorturl.at/W2i6Q
Up the Lycabettus – lovely sunset: Amy Maud Hicks’ diary to Greece
Dr Rosario Rovira Guardiola explores a diary by Amy Maud Hicks, a well-known suffragette, during a trip to Greece in 1902 showcasing her early career as a Classicist & archaeologist: shorturl.at/W2i6Q
If you have any ideas for Rainer, please do get in touch. You'll help me feel less guilty. I fear that my enthusiasm for annotation may be one (if not the) cause of his headache...
Task for today: brainstorming better ways to visualize heavily annotated text. The more I think about it, the harder it gets...
• Partial overlaps → clutter & a11y issues
• Exact overlaps → even worse
• Stacked underlines → work great... until they don't.
Seen elegant solutions? I’d love to chat!
• Partial overlaps → clutter & a11y issues
• Exact overlaps → even worse
• Stacked underlines → work great... until they don't.
Seen elegant solutions? I’d love to chat!
November 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If you have any ideas for Rainer, please do get in touch. You'll help me feel less guilty. I fear that my enthusiasm for annotation may be one (if not the) cause of his headache...
This is definitely me.
"There has been some debate over what Zeus’ “plan” is at the beginning of the poem...The process of refinement we witness in books 1-8 ... is a rewriting of the first nine years of the Trojan War to center Achilles’ rage as the pivotal point."
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/02/r...
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/02/r...
Rewriting the Plot: What The Structure of the Iliad’s First Third Accomplishes
Many of the structural and plot questions of the Iliad’s first third can be categorized as anxiety about anachronism, specifically the events that occur within books 2-8 that more ‘logically’ occur…
sententiaeantiquae.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This is definitely me.
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"There has been some debate over what Zeus’ “plan” is at the beginning of the poem...The process of refinement we witness in books 1-8 ... is a rewriting of the first nine years of the Trojan War to center Achilles’ rage as the pivotal point."
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/02/r...
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/02/r...
Rewriting the Plot: What The Structure of the Iliad’s First Third Accomplishes
Many of the structural and plot questions of the Iliad’s first third can be categorized as anxiety about anachronism, specifically the events that occur within books 2-8 that more ‘logically’ occur…
sententiaeantiquae.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"There has been some debate over what Zeus’ “plan” is at the beginning of the poem...The process of refinement we witness in books 1-8 ... is a rewriting of the first nine years of the Trojan War to center Achilles’ rage as the pivotal point."
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/02/r...
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/02/r...
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#ISAW invites submissions for the graduate student conference: Reimagining Body and Space in the Ancient World held March 5-6th. Submissions are due by December 19th and should be emailed to isawstudentconference@gmail.com.
For more info: isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-gr...
For more info: isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-gr...
November 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
#ISAW invites submissions for the graduate student conference: Reimagining Body and Space in the Ancient World held March 5-6th. Submissions are due by December 19th and should be emailed to isawstudentconference@gmail.com.
For more info: isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-gr...
For more info: isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-gr...
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Quick reminder that @isawnyu.bsky.social is having a VIrtual Open House for Prospective Students day after tomorrow (Wednesday Nov. 5th, 10AM US Eastern time). Info and registration at isaw.nyu.edu/events/open-... . Please share if you think someone who would be interested hasn't signed up. Thanks!
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Quick reminder that @isawnyu.bsky.social is having a VIrtual Open House for Prospective Students day after tomorrow (Wednesday Nov. 5th, 10AM US Eastern time). Info and registration at isaw.nyu.edu/events/open-... . Please share if you think someone who would be interested hasn't signed up. Thanks!
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"Prophet of evils, you've never said anything good for me!
It's always dear to your thoughts to prophesy wicked things--
you never utter or complete any kind of noble word!"
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/10/28/p...
It's always dear to your thoughts to prophesy wicked things--
you never utter or complete any kind of noble word!"
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/10/28/p...
Prophet of Evils
Reading Iphigenia Into and Out of the Iliad At the beginning of the Iliad, Agamemnon refusers to honor the ransom request of Chryses for his daughter Chryseis and this prompts the “rage of Apollo” …
sententiaeantiquae.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"Prophet of evils, you've never said anything good for me!
It's always dear to your thoughts to prophesy wicked things--
you never utter or complete any kind of noble word!"
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/10/28/p...
It's always dear to your thoughts to prophesy wicked things--
you never utter or complete any kind of noble word!"
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/10/28/p...
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My pleasure to be speaking to the U. of London's DH Research Hub on November 25th on 5:00PM. "Deep Time and Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure" www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma... . Hybrid so all very, very welcome.
Deep Time and Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure
www.sas.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
My pleasure to be speaking to the U. of London's DH Research Hub on November 25th on 5:00PM. "Deep Time and Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure" www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma... . Hybrid so all very, very welcome.
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Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
n.pr
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
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Does anyone have a dataset of 1,000 + pages of handwritten text on Transkribus that they want to use for finetuning a VLM? If so, please let me know. This would be for any language and any script.
October 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Does anyone have a dataset of 1,000 + pages of handwritten text on Transkribus that they want to use for finetuning a VLM? If so, please let me know. This would be for any language and any script.
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
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October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
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If you’d like to compare the extortionate demand letters the Trump admin has sent to various universities, you can do that here: sites.google.com/view/univers...
Home
Columbia University demand letter, March 13, 2025, and resolution agreement, July 23, 2025.
Harvard University demand letter, April 11, 2025.
University of Pennsylvania resolution agreement, July 1, ...
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October 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
If you’d like to compare the extortionate demand letters the Trump admin has sent to various universities, you can do that here: sites.google.com/view/univers...
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The first book of the Iliad is often a surprise to readers who come to it from general knowledge of myth. It not really about the Trojan War. It is a narrative set in a Trojan War
sententiaeantiquae.com/painful-sign...
sententiaeantiquae.com/painful-sign...
Painful Signs, Table of Contents
Here is a full list of all of the materials that make up Painful Signs. Live Links will be added as the posts are edited. Introductory Material All the (Epic) Rage: Free Tools for Reading HomerR…
sententiaeantiquae.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The first book of the Iliad is often a surprise to readers who come to it from general knowledge of myth. It not really about the Trojan War. It is a narrative set in a Trojan War
sententiaeantiquae.com/painful-sign...
sententiaeantiquae.com/painful-sign...
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Calling all #DH #LOD #GLAM folks! Please consider answering & sharing this survey on linked data: tinyurl.com/LOD-Ecosystem
The focus: your experience of linked data, the tools & standards you use, & your ideas about future directions for linked data for the humanities & cultural heritage sector.
The focus: your experience of linked data, the tools & standards you use, & your ideas about future directions for linked data for the humanities & cultural heritage sector.
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Calling all #DH #LOD #GLAM folks! Please consider answering & sharing this survey on linked data: tinyurl.com/LOD-Ecosystem
The focus: your experience of linked data, the tools & standards you use, & your ideas about future directions for linked data for the humanities & cultural heritage sector.
The focus: your experience of linked data, the tools & standards you use, & your ideas about future directions for linked data for the humanities & cultural heritage sector.
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#TEIFriday (3):
We're going to run a short workshop in December to get people to help improve the recommendations for encoding SNAP:DRGN style interoperability person-data in TEI XML (Personography module), which I started talking about under this hashtag a few weeks ago. We need your expertise!
We're going to run a short workshop in December to get people to help improve the recommendations for encoding SNAP:DRGN style interoperability person-data in TEI XML (Personography module), which I started talking about under this hashtag a few weeks ago. We need your expertise!
October 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
#TEIFriday (3):
We're going to run a short workshop in December to get people to help improve the recommendations for encoding SNAP:DRGN style interoperability person-data in TEI XML (Personography module), which I started talking about under this hashtag a few weeks ago. We need your expertise!
We're going to run a short workshop in December to get people to help improve the recommendations for encoding SNAP:DRGN style interoperability person-data in TEI XML (Personography module), which I started talking about under this hashtag a few weeks ago. We need your expertise!
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Giving everyone in the relevant field an equal share of grant funding with no peer review would deliver as much as they need. A moderate amount of resources in the UK, and a high amount of resources in the US and the Netherlands. Before we consider the money and time saved in application and review.
October 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Giving everyone in the relevant field an equal share of grant funding with no peer review would deliver as much as they need. A moderate amount of resources in the UK, and a high amount of resources in the US and the Netherlands. Before we consider the money and time saved in application and review.