The Homer Hotline
@thehomerhotline.bsky.social
It's about books, not baseball--Simonides, not The Simpsons. This is the Homer Hotline, a podcast featuring discussions with scholars of ancient epic and related issues, scheduled to release its first season in 2026.
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We “are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.” Thanks for this, @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social and Christopher Nygren.
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
We “are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.” Thanks for this, @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social and Christopher Nygren.
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The US is not going to have a government left. The current regime is dismantling everything and anything that might actually benefit its citizens. Is this what you voted for?
December 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The US is not going to have a government left. The current regime is dismantling everything and anything that might actually benefit its citizens. Is this what you voted for?
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Nah, @sentantiq.bsky.social is how you restart the world's ideas machine!
Did chatGPT write this
December 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Nah, @sentantiq.bsky.social is how you restart the world's ideas machine!
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December 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Nice one, Anthony! 🏺🏛️📚🍾🍻🥂🎅 #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky
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December 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Nice one, Anthony! 🏺🏛️📚🍾🍻🥂🎅 #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky
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Women’s Healthcare in Ancient Mesopotamia in the the First Millennium BCE: An Edition of the Textual Sources / Ulrike Steinert, ed. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #openaccess @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social
Band 12 Women’s Healthcare in Ancient Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BCE
Treatments for women from ancient Mesopotamia form the most extensive medical corpus on female health from antiquity beside the Hippocratic gynaecological works. This volume presents a comprehensive e...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Women’s Healthcare in Ancient Mesopotamia in the the First Millennium BCE: An Edition of the Textual Sources / Ulrike Steinert, ed. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #openaccess @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social
Planning Episode 8 of The Homer Hotline this morning with the amazing Prof. Donna Wilson, author of a book that has been most influential on my thinking: _Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad_ (Cambridge 2002).
December 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Planning Episode 8 of The Homer Hotline this morning with the amazing Prof. Donna Wilson, author of a book that has been most influential on my thinking: _Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad_ (Cambridge 2002).
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I asked ChatGPT how to restart the world ideas machine and it the steps it gave [seriously]:
Reduce noise (less reactive media, fewer performative debates)
Increase depth (long-form thinking, cross-disciplinary exposure)
Re-introduce first-hand experience (making, building, observing reality)
Reduce noise (less reactive media, fewer performative debates)
Increase depth (long-form thinking, cross-disciplinary exposure)
Re-introduce first-hand experience (making, building, observing reality)
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Now editing...The Homer Hotline Season 1!
December 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Now editing...The Homer Hotline Season 1!
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The Dems are far from perfect, but the vast majority of them seem to have the best interests of their constituents at heart, and they deserve support in an imperfect system. This cannot be said of the scum in the Rep party.
December 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The Dems are far from perfect, but the vast majority of them seem to have the best interests of their constituents at heart, and they deserve support in an imperfect system. This cannot be said of the scum in the Rep party.
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I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
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This is not surprizing; Lattimore dominates, and it can be difficult to remember that his first name is Richmond, not Richard.
Zeroshot translation with LLM of Homer align more with Lattimore's translation, apparently a canonical one in the English speaking world? #chr2025 doi.org/10.63744/Xcj...
December 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is not surprizing; Lattimore dominates, and it can be difficult to remember that his first name is Richmond, not Richard.
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"Human beings are not without some agency: While everything in the Iliad may be part of Zeus’ plan, no divinity seems to cause Agamemnon to reject Chryses’ ransom; nor does any god inspire Achilles to ask Zeus to honor him by making the Achaeans suffer."
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Divine Plots and Human Plans: Reading Iliad 7
Book 7 can be split into three basic parts: an initial scene where the gods Apollo and Athena decide to orchestrate a duel; the centerpiece of the book which is duel between Hektor and Ajax; and th…
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December 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Human beings are not without some agency: While everything in the Iliad may be part of Zeus’ plan, no divinity seems to cause Agamemnon to reject Chryses’ ransom; nor does any god inspire Achilles to ask Zeus to honor him by making the Achaeans suffer."
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sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/12/10/d...
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A 2,000-Year-Old Pleasure Barge Resurfaces in Cleopatra’s Harbor, Telling Us of Life in Roman Egypt | Discover Magazine
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A 2,000-Year-Old Pleasure Barge Resurfaces in Cleopatra’s Harbor, Telling Us of Life in Roman Egypt
Discover an ancient luxury shipwreck, complete with Greek graffiti, offering a rare glimpse into elite life on Alexandria’s waterways.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A 2,000-Year-Old Pleasure Barge Resurfaces in Cleopatra’s Harbor, Telling Us of Life in Roman Egypt | Discover Magazine
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One will because of the adaptive and synthetic nature of our minds for language, but fear not. The remedy is to read books from the mid-20th century, and let them influence us.
This is my big fear: that i end up writing, unconsciously, like an AI
December 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
One will because of the adaptive and synthetic nature of our minds for language, but fear not. The remedy is to read books from the mid-20th century, and let them influence us.
Κυκλωψ content!
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Κυκλωψ content!
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Boudica led a doomed uprising against Rome. Her people were slaughtered. She chose poison over capture. Some stories deserve a sonnet.
An epic in 14 lines:
An epic in 14 lines:
November 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Boudica led a doomed uprising against Rome. Her people were slaughtered. She chose poison over capture. Some stories deserve a sonnet.
An epic in 14 lines:
An epic in 14 lines:
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JOB POSTING! 📚📜
Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
JOB POSTING! 📚📜
Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
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reach out and text faith🎶
November 16, 2025 at 12:51 AM
reach out and text faith🎶
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November 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
It hath ben a longe tyme synce Ich have rockid and rollid
It hath ben a longe tyme synce Ich did the strolle
O Let me retourne, let me retourne
Retourne to the place whence Ich went from
It hath ben a longe tyme, ben a longe tyme
Ben a longe lonelye lonelye lonelye O lonelye tyme
It hath ben a longe tyme synce Ich did the strolle
O Let me retourne, let me retourne
Retourne to the place whence Ich went from
It hath ben a longe tyme, ben a longe tyme
Ben a longe lonelye lonelye lonelye O lonelye tyme
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Frankenstein (2025) | REVIEW
wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2025/11/14/f...
One auteur, however, hopes that his passion project can add something new to the storied legacy of the character, and now Netflix has given that opportunity to that auteur. I am, of course, referring to Guillermo Del Toro.
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One auteur, however, hopes that his passion project can add something new to the storied legacy of the character, and now Netflix has given that opportunity to that auteur. I am, of course, referring to Guillermo Del Toro.
Frankenstein (2025) | REVIEW
Reblogged from: Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein in Guillermo Del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN — PHOTO: NETFLIX (Still image from the trailers). Directed by Guillermo Del Toro — Screenplay by Guillermo De…
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November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Frankenstein (2025) | REVIEW
wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2025/11/14/f...
One auteur, however, hopes that his passion project can add something new to the storied legacy of the character, and now Netflix has given that opportunity to that auteur. I am, of course, referring to Guillermo Del Toro.
wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2025/11/14/f...
One auteur, however, hopes that his passion project can add something new to the storied legacy of the character, and now Netflix has given that opportunity to that auteur. I am, of course, referring to Guillermo Del Toro.