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drive by swipes at Homerists who don't care past the classical period don't hurt (because they're true). But posting someone's forthcoming book for ridicule because it does things you consider 'fashionable' and not real classics (oh no, gender!) shows a true smallness of spirit

“A supernatural heat overtook the Void…” καῦμα δὲ θεσπέσιον κάτεχεν Χάος… sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/06/24/sup…

Some news gc.cuny.edu/news/cuny-grad…

Homer’s ‘Set List’: Imagining a Performance of the Iliad Part 2: Evidence for 'Episodes' from Literature and Art open.substack.com/pub/joelchrist…

"I am leaving open two possibilities: one is that later scholars identified separate parts of the poems and gave them names based on their content; the other is that the songs were extant and the names are only articulated later. " open.substack.com/pub/joelchrist…

(4) Homer’s ‘Set List’: Imagining a Performance of the Iliad joelchristensen.substack.com/p/homers-set-l…

“The tradition is that the ancients used to sing Homeric epics in separate parts. For example, they sang the “Battle By the Ships”, the “Doloneia”, the “Aristeia of Agamemnon”, the “Catalogue of Ships,”... open.substack.com/pub/joelchrist…

“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.” 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼

Homeric Epic, Narrative Myth, and the Life of Stories From the Roundtable at the 92nd Street Y 3 sessions: 1: Where does Homer come from? 2: Structure and Meaning: from DNA to Complex Ecologies 3: Heroes as Parasites; Stories as Living Things

Ironically this is also the key plot point of The Bourne Identity

Homer’s ‘Set List’: Imagining a Performance of the Iliad Part 3: Analysis, Neoanalysis, and the Set List open.substack.com/pub/joelchrist…

So, this one is a combo of navel gazing, splitting hairs about neoanalysis and other approaches, and writing out a “set list” of the episodic songs that make up our Iliad joelchristensen.substack.com/p/homers-set-l…

"There’s an essential circularity to claiming that the Homeric epics are based on material that only ended up being preserved in reference to the Iliad or the Odyssey" open.substack.com/pub/joelchrist…

I went to college in 1997. My mother was a widow, a refugee, and couldn’t help me pay for it. There is no way I would be able to afford college if it was 2025 & the bill US Congress just passed was the law of the land. There are millions of people like me. What a shame.