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Joel Gordon
@joelagordonnz.bsky.social
Husband, father, classicist... Interested in myth, reception, heroes, video games and other pop culture mediums...
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After what has been a total write-off of the past few months with so many personal obstacles I made a spontaneous purchase of a new board game - Caesar! And yes I did take Rome in 20 minutes and thoroughly enjoyed it.
August 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Murderous rabbits in medieval manuscripts are simply amazing! I made a point of including them in a class a taught last year on Alexander in medieval traditions
November 27, 2024 at 5:35 AM
So excited to share the CFP for "Worlds Above and Below" - a hybrid (Dunedin & zoom) interdisciplinary conference (theology, biblical studies, ancient studies & classics) on supernatural worlds - abstracts due 22 March 2024 to above_below@otago.ac.nz
December 4, 2023 at 12:06 AM
Reception #Classicstober Day 20 - Odysseus. All I can say is the 80's was wild! Ulysses 31 (or Space Legend Ulysses 31) was an anime with 26 episodes that told Odysseus' wanderings in a sci-fi setting
October 19, 2023 at 8:27 PM
A bit late jumping on the #ClassicsTober and #ClassicsTober23 bandwagon, but couldn't help it with this piece of classical reception from the game #Fortnite. Described as "a dark sea witch with unknowable power", she doesn't yet have a backstory but follows naming conventions from Greek myth in S4.
October 18, 2023 at 1:42 AM
Do I have the best wife ever… why yes, yes I do!
September 28, 2023 at 11:30 PM