Sean Redmond
@rdmond.bsky.social
Senior Product Manager at NYPL (formerly Guggenheim, AMNH and Brooklyn Museum) Also https://mastodon.social/@rdmond. Freelance classicist. @hemerologion.bsky.social
The wealthy didn't even flee NYC in the 1970s
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The wealthy didn't even flee NYC in the 1970s
Still can't quite believe that this is a real thing but @alexwinter.com and Keanu were great
September 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Still can't quite believe that this is a real thing but @alexwinter.com and Keanu were great
Oh man, it took me a little too long to figure this out #AlienEarth
August 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Oh man, it took me a little too long to figure this out #AlienEarth
Things "some readers" of Lowell Edmunds' _Cleon, Knights, and Aristophanes' Politics_ might have have been curious about in 1987 (I'm still curious)
Edmunds using troff to format a book is hardcore
Edmunds using troff to format a book is hardcore
August 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Things "some readers" of Lowell Edmunds' _Cleon, Knights, and Aristophanes' Politics_ might have have been curious about in 1987 (I'm still curious)
Edmunds using troff to format a book is hardcore
Edmunds using troff to format a book is hardcore
Worth noting that Badian cites Miller "The Date of Olympic Festivals" as foundation for Plutarch's date being correct. Miller uses Plutarch's story to bolster his hypothesis that the Olympics occurred at the 2nd new moon after the summer solstice
July 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Worth noting that Badian cites Miller "The Date of Olympic Festivals" as foundation for Plutarch's date being correct. Miller uses Plutarch's story to bolster his hypothesis that the Olympics occurred at the 2nd new moon after the summer solstice
I love a good anecdote but I wonder if it just goes back to this (Studies in the History of Art [1982] 10 48n34)? Bickermann reproduces Ginzel's tables of new moons which are still pretty good for 120 year old hand calculations.
!["But it is generally agreed that Hecatombaeon was the first lunar month that began after the summer solstice. (See, in general, A. E. Samuel, Greek and Roman Chronology: Calendars and Years in Classical Antiquity. Hd. d. Alt. 1.7 [1972], 64, with note I.) In 356, the new moon phased in Athens about 7:30 p.m. on July 14. (For the precise time, see E.J. Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World [Ithaca, N.Y., 1968], 115, given, of course, in GMT.) If that day was 1 Hecatombaeon, Alexander was born on July 19.The difference, in any case, will not be more than a day or two."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26256mupdjdbefx76y5dpkrh/bafkreic3dj2vocgw5qz56xtr56ph23akstb2ioy7m6hw7s63hmdrwf6fbe@jpeg)
July 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I love a good anecdote but I wonder if it just goes back to this (Studies in the History of Art [1982] 10 48n34)? Bickermann reproduces Ginzel's tables of new moons which are still pretty good for 120 year old hand calculations.
June 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
So tired of this framing. The system is not complex. Put down the candidates in the order you'd prefer to see them elected. It's only complex for horse-race political writers trying to pick a front-runner
June 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
So tired of this framing. The system is not complex. Put down the candidates in the order you'd prefer to see them elected. It's only complex for horse-race political writers trying to pick a front-runner
At this point, hard to believe this game has a whole other quarter left to go
May 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
At this point, hard to believe this game has a whole other quarter left to go
Huh, I hadn’t thought about Luke/Kylo Ren in The Last Jedi secretly being a Sokrates/Alkibiades paradigm (Reading David Stuttard’s “Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens”) #ClassicsBluesky
April 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Huh, I hadn’t thought about Luke/Kylo Ren in The Last Jedi secretly being a Sokrates/Alkibiades paradigm (Reading David Stuttard’s “Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens”) #ClassicsBluesky
I have to imagine Richard the Lionheart's mild favorability is driven by the title of "The Lion in Winter" confusing people about which king Peter O'Toole played
March 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I have to imagine Richard the Lionheart's mild favorability is driven by the title of "The Lion in Winter" confusing people about which king Peter O'Toole played
The metaphor is the same. Kleon didn't really need to adjust his clothes for gesturing, but perhaps he was depicted in a comedy as addressing the assembly stripped down to his underwear as if for physical labor
March 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The metaphor is the same. Kleon didn't really need to adjust his clothes for gesturing, but perhaps he was depicted in a comedy as addressing the assembly stripped down to his underwear as if for physical labor
Alternately, it could mean that he was underdressed. The Suda defines περίζωμα as, basically, underwear www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol...
So the the bricklaying ducks in Birds are stripped down for physical work, and the naked demos wraps Hyperbolos around it like a towel
So the the bricklaying ducks in Birds are stripped down for physical work, and the naked demos wraps Hyperbolos around it like a towel
March 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Alternately, it could mean that he was underdressed. The Suda defines περίζωμα as, basically, underwear www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol...
So the the bricklaying ducks in Birds are stripped down for physical work, and the naked demos wraps Hyperbolos around it like a towel
So the the bricklaying ducks in Birds are stripped down for physical work, and the naked demos wraps Hyperbolos around it like a towel
Rather than pressing the meaning of περιζωσάμενος to mean something Kleon did with his clothes so that he could gesture more freely, maybe in some lost play, Kleon was simply depicted a πονηρός, addressing the assembly wearing a working man's apron
March 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Rather than pressing the meaning of περιζωσάμενος to mean something Kleon did with his clothes so that he could gesture more freely, maybe in some lost play, Kleon was simply depicted a πονηρός, addressing the assembly wearing a working man's apron
And I wonder if Rhodes isn't more right than he seems about the description of Kleon in AthPol coming from comedy.
March 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
And I wonder if Rhodes isn't more right than he seems about the description of Kleon in AthPol coming from comedy.
Anyway, to cover their nakedidity, the demos could have put on anything, but choosing Hyperbolos is equated to putting on a workman's apron. This metaphor extends the idea of choosing a low-class leader, a πονηρός
March 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Anyway, to cover their nakedidity, the demos could have put on anything, but choosing Hyperbolos is equated to putting on a workman's apron. This metaphor extends the idea of choosing a low-class leader, a πονηρός
And also, maybe, to the way Mike Lindell is just called "the MyPillow Guy" as a shorthand for "not serious." Being a wannabe-fascist nutjob is disqualifying, but running a pillow business really isn't.
March 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
And also, maybe, to the way Mike Lindell is just called "the MyPillow Guy" as a shorthand for "not serious." Being a wannabe-fascist nutjob is disqualifying, but running a pillow business really isn't.