Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell
@jordgmitch.bsky.social
Ancient History • Faculty of Classics at the University of St. Thomas • Augustan Resonances in Post-Augustan Literature • Petronius • Gender Studies • Toxic Masculinity • Respue Quod Non Es
The reception of MeToo as a failure is wild to me. More has been written in backlash to the movement than has been written about holding men accountable for their misogynistic, predatory, and sexist behavior. More has been written humanizing perpetrators than has been written about victims.
October 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The reception of MeToo as a failure is wild to me. More has been written in backlash to the movement than has been written about holding men accountable for their misogynistic, predatory, and sexist behavior. More has been written humanizing perpetrators than has been written about victims.
Has anyone written on ancient tragedy and the pushback against Me-Too in media? Specifically the obsession with the perpetrator over the victim?
October 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Has anyone written on ancient tragedy and the pushback against Me-Too in media? Specifically the obsession with the perpetrator over the victim?
Dum Spero, Fallor.
September 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Dum Spero, Fallor.
This Academic Sisyphus does not imagine himself happy.
August 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This Academic Sisyphus does not imagine himself happy.
The right-wing method of subversion is to broadcast fantasies of their own oppression while remaining representatives of hegemonic, patriarchal, and traditional power structures.
August 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The right-wing method of subversion is to broadcast fantasies of their own oppression while remaining representatives of hegemonic, patriarchal, and traditional power structures.
Speaking truth to power is not pointing out how everything done by this administration and the right is hypocritical—they have zero principles and will do anything, even something they’ve opposed in the recent past. We need to be emphasizing just how dangerously stupid these people are. Denormalize!
August 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Speaking truth to power is not pointing out how everything done by this administration and the right is hypocritical—they have zero principles and will do anything, even something they’ve opposed in the recent past. We need to be emphasizing just how dangerously stupid these people are. Denormalize!
Why is every day so f**king stupid?
August 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Why is every day so f**king stupid?
I received my MA in Classics at U of Oregon and this is absolutely horrific news. I owe so much to that department and the wonderful faculty there. Unthinkable.
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
August 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I received my MA in Classics at U of Oregon and this is absolutely horrific news. I owe so much to that department and the wonderful faculty there. Unthinkable.
Did anyone see the report on the pronatalist family whose oldest child is named Octavian…yikes!
August 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Did anyone see the report on the pronatalist family whose oldest child is named Octavian…yikes!
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Taken up painting hmu next month if you want a bunch of free art supplies
July 30, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Taken up painting hmu next month if you want a bunch of free art supplies
I choose to believe that the etymology for “palliative” is Pallas and therefore palliative care is to be in the loving embrace of armed Athena.
July 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I choose to believe that the etymology for “palliative” is Pallas and therefore palliative care is to be in the loving embrace of armed Athena.
I just need a contrived nickname and I might be this guy.
Literally making up a guy to get mad at
July 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I just need a contrived nickname and I might be this guy.
I don’t think enough work has been done to show just how queer a figure the Roman emperor really is.
June 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I don’t think enough work has been done to show just how queer a figure the Roman emperor really is.
Can someone else be responsible for my happiness for a change?
June 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Can someone else be responsible for my happiness for a change?
Dropping extra copies of my Classical Mythology quizzes into every Little Free Library to keep the neighborhoods educated.
May 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Dropping extra copies of my Classical Mythology quizzes into every Little Free Library to keep the neighborhoods educated.
Has anyone written on the comparative overlap of Athena’s response to the desecration of her holy space in the stories of the rape of Cassandra and the rape of Medusa?
May 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Has anyone written on the comparative overlap of Athena’s response to the desecration of her holy space in the stories of the rape of Cassandra and the rape of Medusa?
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The longer I teach, the more I am convinced that the most important part of teaching is Vibes Management.
April 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The longer I teach, the more I am convinced that the most important part of teaching is Vibes Management.
We are currently seeing those in power run America like a business. They can look at funding for the widespread prevention of deadly diseases and only see its cost believing that its function has no inherent value. People who only care about money don’t give a shit about anything else.
April 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
We are currently seeing those in power run America like a business. They can look at funding for the widespread prevention of deadly diseases and only see its cost believing that its function has no inherent value. People who only care about money don’t give a shit about anything else.
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personally would not describe the myth of a man cursed to roll a rock uphill FRUITLESSLY FOR ALL ETERNITY as “a reminder that you can overcome anything” but you do you, meta ad
March 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
personally would not describe the myth of a man cursed to roll a rock uphill FRUITLESSLY FOR ALL ETERNITY as “a reminder that you can overcome anything” but you do you, meta ad
Does anyone have any suggestions for a modern film that would be great to watch after reading the Iliad for the sake of comparison? The film doesn’t have to be about the ancient world or even war, but just explore similar dynamics/character types.
March 4, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Does anyone have any suggestions for a modern film that would be great to watch after reading the Iliad for the sake of comparison? The film doesn’t have to be about the ancient world or even war, but just explore similar dynamics/character types.
Teaching a Classical Hero & Film course this semester. Just watched The Quick & The Dead (1995) alongside reading Euripides’ Heracles. The amount that these two overlap is fascinating. There is even a statue of Heracles in the film.
February 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Teaching a Classical Hero & Film course this semester. Just watched The Quick & The Dead (1995) alongside reading Euripides’ Heracles. The amount that these two overlap is fascinating. There is even a statue of Heracles in the film.
“A city does not have good sense when it’s sick with faction and bad counsels; otherwise it would never have gotten you as ruler.”
Euripides’ Heracles, 272-274
Euripides’ Heracles, 272-274
February 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
“A city does not have good sense when it’s sick with faction and bad counsels; otherwise it would never have gotten you as ruler.”
Euripides’ Heracles, 272-274
Euripides’ Heracles, 272-274
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"DEI" is "CRT" is "gender ideology" is "cultural Marxism"--never a static, definable thing whose merits can be defended or debated or reasoned about.
It is a specter, a phantasm, a nebulous evil, a RHETORICAL DEVICE, first and foremost. It is a cudgel to instrumentalize against the marginalized.
It is a specter, a phantasm, a nebulous evil, a RHETORICAL DEVICE, first and foremost. It is a cudgel to instrumentalize against the marginalized.
January 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"DEI" is "CRT" is "gender ideology" is "cultural Marxism"--never a static, definable thing whose merits can be defended or debated or reasoned about.
It is a specter, a phantasm, a nebulous evil, a RHETORICAL DEVICE, first and foremost. It is a cudgel to instrumentalize against the marginalized.
It is a specter, a phantasm, a nebulous evil, a RHETORICAL DEVICE, first and foremost. It is a cudgel to instrumentalize against the marginalized.
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I will not post much on this topic, but I'm the Head of Ancient History and Religion at Cardiff University. Our staff and students are nothing short of amazing. Those who know me will know that I'm doing all I can.
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January 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I will not post much on this topic, but I'm the Head of Ancient History and Religion at Cardiff University. Our staff and students are nothing short of amazing. Those who know me will know that I'm doing all I can.
At any museum I go to I have to find a work of art that best depicts who I am deep inside. At the Detroit Institute of Art today it was this one.
January 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
At any museum I go to I have to find a work of art that best depicts who I am deep inside. At the Detroit Institute of Art today it was this one.