Rebecca Posner-Hess
@krokopeplos.bsky.social
"the time is the present, the place is Ancient Greece."
she/her, UChicago Classics PhD candidate, rhapsode in the most literal sense. interests include silence, stripping, and stuff on the ancient stage 🌈✡️🏺🎭
she/her, UChicago Classics PhD candidate, rhapsode in the most literal sense. interests include silence, stripping, and stuff on the ancient stage 🌈✡️🏺🎭
Pinned
new cover image for my dissertation prospectus, inspired by the comments I keep getting on my drafts
ah yes the familiar ritual of adding some early 20th century German stuff to my bibliography as the source of some idea or other in classical scholarship and then combing through the internet to figure out what this scholar was doing in the years 1939-1945...
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
ah yes the familiar ritual of adding some early 20th century German stuff to my bibliography as the source of some idea or other in classical scholarship and then combing through the internet to figure out what this scholar was doing in the years 1939-1945...
this week I finished knitting a sweater that I started in spring 2023, so honestly three years seems like a pretty reasonable time frame for Penelope to be weaving a shroud
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
this week I finished knitting a sweater that I started in spring 2023, so honestly three years seems like a pretty reasonable time frame for Penelope to be weaving a shroud
since we're coming up on that time of the year again
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www.redbubble.com/i/sweatshirt...
November 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
since we're coming up on that time of the year again
www.redbubble.com/i/sweatshirt...
www.redbubble.com/i/sweatshirt...
I think for my 8 am Tereus paper I need the screeching whistle sound from the Sweeney Todd cast album
One of my strongly-held beliefs is that academics need to normalize having walk-on songs for conferences, panels, and speeches.
October 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I think for my 8 am Tereus paper I need the screeching whistle sound from the Sweeney Todd cast album
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talking about "the turn of the century" and I mean the late 400s and early 300s BCE
October 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
talking about "the turn of the century" and I mean the late 400s and early 300s BCE
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LIVE - Classicist reacts to BMCR Books Received list for October
October 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
LIVE - Classicist reacts to BMCR Books Received list for October
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in what follows i will reinvent the wheel
September 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
in what follows i will reinvent the wheel
a periodic illustration of what I mean by "rhapsode in the most literal sense" (ῥάπτω+ἀοιδή)
September 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
a periodic illustration of what I mean by "rhapsode in the most literal sense" (ῥάπτω+ἀοιδή)
once again watching videos of bird noises for research purposes, desperately trying to hear the acoustic similarity to the aulos
September 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
once again watching videos of bird noises for research purposes, desperately trying to hear the acoustic similarity to the aulos
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Fall is approaching which means it's almost time to read "The Pumpkinspiceification of the Divine Claudius."
August 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Fall is approaching which means it's almost time to read "The Pumpkinspiceification of the Divine Claudius."
I figure this image should come in handy
August 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I figure this image should come in handy
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You want me to roll out the red carpet? The thing that killed Agamemnon?
August 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
You want me to roll out the red carpet? The thing that killed Agamemnon?
underrated implication of the recognition tokens in the Libation Bearers is that Orestes and Electra don’t just have the same hair, they both have their MOTHER’S hair
August 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
underrated implication of the recognition tokens in the Libation Bearers is that Orestes and Electra don’t just have the same hair, they both have their MOTHER’S hair
standing and staring at the artifacts in the museum for so long that the motion-sensor lights go off and it's just you in the dark with the iron-age coinage
August 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
standing and staring at the artifacts in the museum for so long that the motion-sensor lights go off and it's just you in the dark with the iron-age coinage
neither iota subscript nor iota adscript but a secret third thing
July 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
neither iota subscript nor iota adscript but a secret third thing
I would ask who the market is for the €1800 cithara in the museum shop but I know. it’s me. I am the target market for that.
July 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I would ask who the market is for the €1800 cithara in the museum shop but I know. it’s me. I am the target market for that.
ah the good old days when scholarly monographs could be 50 pages long
July 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
ah the good old days when scholarly monographs could be 50 pages long
desperately searching for a contemporary adaptation of the Oresteia that's brave enough to include Apollo's theory of reproduction
July 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
desperately searching for a contemporary adaptation of the Oresteia that's brave enough to include Apollo's theory of reproduction
I try not too read to much into accidents of textual survival, but it's so great that the first extant Greek tragedy involves a man coming out of the grave and the last involves a man walking directly into it
July 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I try not too read to much into accidents of textual survival, but it's so great that the first extant Greek tragedy involves a man coming out of the grave and the last involves a man walking directly into it
'new evidence' and it's just Plato
New Evidence Reveals Ancient Greeks Immediately Regretted Inventing Theater
theonion.com/new-evi...
theonion.com/new-evi...
July 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
'new evidence' and it's just Plato
this chapter on the Oresteia and the interplay of double-casting and the cyclicality of revenge can have a little Dionysus-dressed-as-Heracles-in-the-Frogs. as a treat.
July 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
this chapter on the Oresteia and the interplay of double-casting and the cyclicality of revenge can have a little Dionysus-dressed-as-Heracles-in-the-Frogs. as a treat.
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Indiana Jones and Putting Up a Small Plaque Acknowledging "Controversial by Modern Standards" Acquisition
Indiana Jones and the Inadvertent GDPR Breach
Indiana Jones and the Updates of Doom
July 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Indiana Jones and Putting Up a Small Plaque Acknowledging "Controversial by Modern Standards" Acquisition
I genuinely love how Sophocles keeps sneaking into works that are purportedly based only on Aeschylus
June 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I genuinely love how Sophocles keeps sneaking into works that are purportedly based only on Aeschylus
a little concerning how there's a copy of Parable of the Sower sitting in my block's little free library alongside the end-of-year drop of textbooks and MCAT prep books, as if it's equally instructive
June 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
a little concerning how there's a copy of Parable of the Sower sitting in my block's little free library alongside the end-of-year drop of textbooks and MCAT prep books, as if it's equally instructive