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I don't usually do this, but I thought I'd highlight an artist here. VolVokun is an excellent fantasy artist, just spectacular work. You can support her on Ko-Fi if you like her work!
Passed someone on the sidewalk today who had a Pulp Fiction t-shirt on, and it took every fiber of my fragile will power to keep myself from screaming "English, motherfucker, do you speak it?!"
Taught my class today the descending quality of diplomacy in Book 1 of the Iliad. You have the masterful prayers and requests of Chryses at the start, to Kalchas' obvious subversion of Agamemnon's authority in the assembly. Obviously, I had more fun with it than they did.
To love the story of Achilles is the province of the young.
When you find yourself admiring Hector, you know you’ve matured.
Hi! I’m a classics major trying to get a little more involved in the classics community on tumblr & was wondering if you might have some classics blog recs? Thank you so much😊
there’s like 200 but here are a few that come to mind:
@sigaloenta, @garland-on-thy-brow, @clodiuspulcher, @quousque, @cavedraconem, @aristoteliancomplacency, @flores-et-dracones, @arktoskallisto, @didoofcarthage, @uirgiliana, @vaeputodeusfio, @catullan, @labentiasidera
i’m not trying to leave anyone out, just…..lazy……..everyone feel free to self-promote in the comments
oh, also, some classics tags: #tagamemnon, #lingua latina, #ancient greek
That’s some bullshit right there
Just realized that Ernest the Bear is voiced by Forest Whitaker.
Back yo
Back from a godawful academic year. Definitely burned out hard after last semester, and the courses I taught at Brooklyn College had some incredibly bad students. Hopefully this summer I can revive and prepare myself for exams.
ancient greek word of the day: μαλακόφρων (malakophrōn), gentle-hearted
bruh
everything about this… this statue, the choppy waves, the cliffs behind her, the echo, the drumming….. aesthetic
Lyrics in Faroese:
Trøllabundin eri eg eri eg Galdramaður festi meg festi meg Trøllabundin djúpt í míni sál í míni sál Í hjartanum logar brennandi bál brennandi bál
Trøllabundin eri eg eri eg Galdramaður festi meg festi meg Trøllabundin inn í hjartarót í hjartarót Eyga mítt festist har ið galdramaður stóð
English translation:
Spellbound am I, am I The wizard has enchanted me, enchanted me Spellbound deep in my soul, in my soul In my heart burns a smouldering fire, smouldering fire
Spellbound am I, am I The wizard has enchanted me, enchanted me Spellbound in my heart’s root, my heart’s root
Did anyone else just get the shivers? Cuz I’m definitely getting the shivers.
Btdubs, the singer is Eivør Pálsdóttir.
I’m familiar with Eivør and this is my favorite of her songs. I’m so thrilled to have randomly found this on my dash ♥
If you are a tenured (or tenure-track) faculty member, you are both the instrument and the direct beneficiary of exploitation.
I knew this. I knew this and I left.
Yet to talk about adjuncts is to talk about the centerpiece of higher education. Tenured faculty represent only 17 percent of college instructors. Part-time adjuncts are now the majority of the professoriate and its fastest-growing segment. From 1975 to 2011, the number of part-time adjuncts quadrupled. And the so-called part-time designation is misleading because most of them are piecing together teaching jobs at multiple institutions simultaneously. A 2014 congressional report suggests that 89 percent of adjuncts work at more than one institution; 13 percent work at four or more. The need for several appointments becomes obvious when we realize how little any one of them pays. In 2013, The Chronicle began collecting data on salary and benefits from adjuncts across the country. An English-department adjunct at Berkeley, for example, received $6,500 to teach a full-semester course. It’s easy to lose sight of all the people struggling beneath the data points. $7,000 at Duke. $6,000 at Columbia. $5,950 at the University of Iowa.
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If my book deserves recognition, then we must also recognize that no young scholar with any sense would be foolish enough to write it. Graduate students must tailor their research projects to a fickle job market, and a book like mine simply doesn’t fit. Few academic presses publish narrative literary history, and what’s worse is that my book is a microhistory — it chronicles the publication of just one novel. The job market’s clearest demand is that a candidate must demonstrate breadth in research, especially if he or she works in a traditional field. This year, for example, there are only eight tenure-track jobs seeking a scholar of British modernism. And yet even this tally is too generous, because all eight of those departments are looking for someone whose expertise covers two or more centuries of British literature.
The message is clear: Stick to the old dissertation formula — six chapters about six authors. The most foolish mistake is addressing an audience beyond the academy. Publishing with Penguin or Random House should be a wonderful opportunity for a young scholar. Yet for most hiring committees, a trade book is merely one that did not undergo peer review. It’s extracurricular. My book exists because I was willing to give up a tenure-track job to write it.
We cannot blame this professional anemia on scarce funding. The largest adjunct-faculty increases have taken place during periods of economic growth, and high university endowments do not diminish adjunctification. Harvard has steadily increased its adjunct faculty over the past four decades, and its endowment is $35.7 billion. This is larger than the GDP of a majority of the world’s countries.
The truth is that teaching is a diminishing priority in universities. Years of AAUP reports indicate that budgets for instruction are proportionally shrinking. Universities now devote less than one-third of their expenditures to instruction. Meanwhile, administrative positions have increased at more than 10 times the rate of tenured faculty positions. Sports and amenities are much more fun.
All these men are dead.
In every classics department I've been in (so, 2), this has been posted on the office door.
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