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Alex Istok
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Classics PhD. Teaching at Samford University. Writing about early Christian apologies and Roman legal spaces (real + imagined).
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scare quotes doing a lot of work:
a piece of paper on a brown table with two columns drawn. Above the columns the title is labeled as “real” vs. “fictional”. there is a small stack of books in the background.
July 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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annoyed with rhetoric about politics and stuck trying to write about fiction and this article is kind of helping (a must read anyway if you haven’t):
An image of an article that has been printed out (the pages are held together by a red paper clip in the top left corner and there is one sentence highlighted in purple). The article is Barbara Johnson’s “Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion” 1986). It is set on top of another stack of papers (a printed version of the loeb of Xenophon’s Apology with only the Greek visible).
June 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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classicist at SBL #sblaar24:
white coffee cup with a logo of a black and white Greek military helmet with a bright red plume (the logo of Achilles Coffee). there is a brick street in the background.
November 24, 2024 at 4:27 AM
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Some Saturday morning Syriac:
A pile of printed pages of a Syriac text are in the bottom right of the image with handwritten notes in English on the top of the page. An open MacBook is on the left. In the top right, there is a cream colored mug with black coffee in it sitting on a ceramic coaster that is green and cream.
November 16, 2024 at 12:27 PM