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I recently tweeted (yes, that dying star-system) that I had recognised an allusion to Plato's Timaeus while reading Athanasius recently. I don't at all think that I am the first to notice this particular allusion, but it was a thrill to recognise it just from
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Well, it's coming up towards the end of our teaching term at #SeumasU, and we're looking ahead to the next term (starts Apr 23rd). If you haven't heard about upcoming classes somewhere else yet, here's what we're teaching: Beginner Greek
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I started offering SeumasU classes (not by that name!) in 2019. I went full-time (ish), ditching my other work in 2020 thanks to the pandemic. So I'm now steaming and streaming into my 4th year of trying to teach somewhat-more-communicatively, online, as a full-time
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Here's my general advice for autodidacts, people looking to do a lot of Greek reading, or anyone really wanting to kickstart and turbo-charge their Ancient Greek. It's also more of less what I tell students to do (especially if they have finished Athenaze vol 1)
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So, like many people I'm intrigued by the possibilities of chatGPT. I have been particularly impressed that it renders responses to prompts for Latin with texts that on the whole both (a) grammatical, and (b) make sense. On the whole, it struggles with Ancient Greek, often producing texts
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The poor in spirit - that's the good life! The Heavenly Reign is theirs.Mourners - good on ya! They'll be comforted.The meek are bonzer, they'll get the Land as an inheritance.Hungry and thirsting for justice? Too beaut. They'll have all they
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Why is πόρνη translated as 'prostitute', but πόρνος is not? This question arose on the sinking-ship of Twitter, and since I was tagged, I started to think about it. I don't have a very in-depth answer, in that I'm not a lexicographer,
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Lately I have been listening to Ursula Le Guin's classic novel The Left Hand of Darkness, which portrays the world of Gethen, populated by a version of humans that are androgynous most of the time, except for a period once a month (kemmer) where they become male or
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Syra, quae male audit, id quod medicus dīcit audīre nōn potest; itaque interrogat: "quid dīcit medicus?" Aemilia (in aurem Syrae): 'Medicus puerum dormīre' dīcit." So, in Chapter 11 of Familia Romana, Ørberg uses a simple but effective technique to introduce indirect speech (oratio obliqua, or
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In light of last week’s discussions on twitter and then here, I ended up doing a bunch of reading and reflection about CEFR things… Not that you have the time, but sitting down and reading some of the extended documentation on CEFR scales is not an unprofitable activity. I
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I realised that not everybody is on twitter (blessed are you), and so here's a short note that a few months back I started (yet) another blog/substack, in which I write about Christian life, praxis, and do book reviews. If that's of interest to you,
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I'm responding to recent twitter Discourse kicked off by @CarolusCarman about whether the push for CI means that we are in favour of sub-par content, and whether it's okay that the classics world has a bunch of people running around who aren't truly