Since we're all (rightly) obsessing about the ancient Greek D&G fashion show, this seems like the right time to rank every outfit in order of how much I want to wear them to teach/conference. I will also be declaring what sort of ancient world energy they have. This is definitive OBVIOUSLY this is #1. However, this is NOT Athena energy, though I get why you might think it was. This is actually Phya energy -- the very tall woman Pisistratus dressed up as Athena to fool dumb Athenians. Sparkly scammer energy

Every time I see someone RT this with a comment about this being why we don't have debt-free college or universal healthcare of all the other things this money could (should) fund, I'm always distracted by their use of Her-cu-les here. I know they're trying to be 'fun' buuut 1/ It actually feels like an inadvertently apt use of Hercules. In Greek tragedy, Heracles is consistently a hero whose heroism has grave and terrible domestic consequences. The price of his kleos is too high
(shout out to Katherine Lu's AMAZING dissertation on this topic) 2/

Settling into Session 45: Special 150th Panel: The Future of Classics (Sesquicentennial Workshop, organized by Stephen Hinds, University of Washington, Seattle). Extremely excited for this panel! #AIASCS Hinds talks about having students who haven't had a class that was entirely about dead people. His class was not about shoring up the dead white men, but getting inside the head of dead people & reading slowly. Hinds asks people to think about the near and distant future #AIASCS