Professor Elton
@eltonteb.bsky.social
Prof of Greek Literature & Culture at The Open University | working-class Classicist | still delighting in Homer | dabbling in the digital | grappling with the politics of form & linked data | Pelagios partnership sec | hello to Jason | love the show Steve
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Professor Elton
@eltonteb.bsky.social
· Aug 29
Welcome to Pelagios Network
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Greetings all, I'm a classicist at the Open University with a passion for Homer, tragedy and historiography. I'm also helping to develop digital methods and tools to map texts with recogito.pelagios.org, and link data with pelagios.org. Always happy to give school talks on any of these topics!
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Donald Trump once claimed he could end the war in Ukraine in a day. Brits think the U.S. president is a hurdle to lasting peace.
Donald Trump is a hurdle to peace in Ukraine, say Brits
Nearly half of those polled by More in Common think the U.S. president is hindering peace, compared to 21 percent who think he is providing a boost.
www.politico.eu
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Donald Trump once claimed he could end the war in Ukraine in a day. Brits think the U.S. president is a hurdle to lasting peace.
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On Bregman, I was there in the audience and I can’t see what the BBC have gained by removing this line except more bad publicity. I will say that no such edits or censorship occurred when I gave the Reith Lectures and free-speech defenders might want think about whether this is the world they want.
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
On Bregman, I was there in the audience and I can’t see what the BBC have gained by removing this line except more bad publicity. I will say that no such edits or censorship occurred when I gave the Reith Lectures and free-speech defenders might want think about whether this is the world they want.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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The project I'll be talking about , gaerhf.org , is in its earliest stages. The talk is my first substantial public presentation on it. I'll welcome all feedback I get and you can expect that it will lead to improvements at all scales. I'm grateful to whomever can join in any mode. #GlobalAntiquity
November 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The project I'll be talking about , gaerhf.org , is in its earliest stages. The talk is my first substantial public presentation on it. I'll welcome all feedback I get and you can expect that it will lead to improvements at all scales. I'm grateful to whomever can join in any mode. #GlobalAntiquity
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Reform's former Leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, a 10.5 year jail term for taking bribes from the Kremlin.
Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill.
Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?
Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill.
Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Reform's former Leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, a 10.5 year jail term for taking bribes from the Kremlin.
Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill.
Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?
Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill.
Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?
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text-annotator-js – our JavaScript library for text and PDF annotation – is looking for a new name.
Something shorter, nicer and more memorable. (Current favourite: "leuchtmarker" – German for "highlighter pen".) Got ideas? Drop them below!
github.com/recogito/tex...
Something shorter, nicer and more memorable. (Current favourite: "leuchtmarker" – German for "highlighter pen".) Got ideas? Drop them below!
github.com/recogito/tex...
Better Project Name · Issue #238 · recogito/text-annotator-js
The name "Recogito Text Annotator" was actually meant as a temporary working title. As always with working titles, it stuck... IMO it's both land and a bit too verbose. Also: it's currently under t...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
text-annotator-js – our JavaScript library for text and PDF annotation – is looking for a new name.
Something shorter, nicer and more memorable. (Current favourite: "leuchtmarker" – German for "highlighter pen".) Got ideas? Drop them below!
github.com/recogito/tex...
Something shorter, nicer and more memorable. (Current favourite: "leuchtmarker" – German for "highlighter pen".) Got ideas? Drop them below!
github.com/recogito/tex...
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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GAERHF talk happening November 25th at 5PM in London. "Deep Time and Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure" www.history.ac.uk/digital-huma... . It will be on Zoom as well. Link will be sent after registration (I think).
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
GAERHF talk happening November 25th at 5PM in London. "Deep Time and Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure" www.history.ac.uk/digital-huma... . It will be on Zoom as well. Link will be sent after registration (I think).
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Deep Time & Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure
25 Nov, 5-6pm shorturl.at/Wj1mU
Sebastian Heath (NYU) will discuss Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure, a tool for exploration of the long-term history of the production of images of ourselves
25 Nov, 5-6pm shorturl.at/Wj1mU
Sebastian Heath (NYU) will discuss Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure, a tool for exploration of the long-term history of the production of images of ourselves
Deep Time and Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure
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November 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Deep Time & Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure
25 Nov, 5-6pm shorturl.at/Wj1mU
Sebastian Heath (NYU) will discuss Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure, a tool for exploration of the long-term history of the production of images of ourselves
25 Nov, 5-6pm shorturl.at/Wj1mU
Sebastian Heath (NYU) will discuss Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure, a tool for exploration of the long-term history of the production of images of ourselves
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The programme for the Linked Pasts Symposium is now live!
This is online goal-oriented meeting taking place from 1-12 December for building, planning & learning about the application of linked open data (LOD) to historical texts, events & data
🔸More: www.atrium-research.eu/events/linke...
This is online goal-oriented meeting taking place from 1-12 December for building, planning & learning about the application of linked open data (LOD) to historical texts, events & data
🔸More: www.atrium-research.eu/events/linke...
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The programme for the Linked Pasts Symposium is now live!
This is online goal-oriented meeting taking place from 1-12 December for building, planning & learning about the application of linked open data (LOD) to historical texts, events & data
🔸More: www.atrium-research.eu/events/linke...
This is online goal-oriented meeting taking place from 1-12 December for building, planning & learning about the application of linked open data (LOD) to historical texts, events & data
🔸More: www.atrium-research.eu/events/linke...
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Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
www.newstatesman.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
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Left: Donald Trump’s Jan 6th quote, as presented in the dossier that brought down two BBC bosses
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Left: Donald Trump’s Jan 6th quote, as presented in the dossier that brought down two BBC bosses
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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‘An email from %Epstein to #Maxwell in April 2011 reads: "I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is #trump.. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him"’
New Epstein emails that mention Trump released by House Democrats - live updates
President Trump has previously said allegations about him relating to Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died in 2019, are a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Does anybody know anything about deduplication at the #internetarchive? Quite frequently people upload the same files as independent items, which could be prevent by checking against hashes.
See, for example, https://archive.org/details/Om-Alqura, which seems to be an exact copy of […]
See, for example, https://archive.org/details/Om-Alqura, which seems to be an exact copy of […]
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digitalcourage.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Does anybody know anything about deduplication at the #internetarchive? Quite frequently people upload the same files as independent items, which could be prevent by checking against hashes.
See, for example, https://archive.org/details/Om-Alqura, which seems to be an exact copy of […]
See, for example, https://archive.org/details/Om-Alqura, which seems to be an exact copy of […]
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Thersites’ Body: Description, Characterization, and Physiognomy in Iliad 2 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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Thersites’ Body: Description, Characterization, and Physiognomy in Iliad 2
Iliad 2.211-224 “The rest of them were sitting, and they had taken their seats.Only Thersites, a man of measureless speech, was still declaring–A man who knew many disordered things in his th…
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November 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thersites’ Body: Description, Characterization, and Physiognomy in Iliad 2 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/04/t...
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/04/t...
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Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future / Lisa Brody, Anne Hunnell Chen (eds) #openaccess @brepols.net
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Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future | Studies in Classical Archaeology
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November 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future / Lisa Brody, Anne Hunnell Chen (eds) #openaccess @brepols.net
www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
@julietsamsonconlon.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social
@lrbrody.bsky.social
www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
@julietsamsonconlon.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social
@lrbrody.bsky.social
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#digitalhumanities folk: could you please recommend significant work on topic modeling and small language models that you might have come across?
November 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
#digitalhumanities folk: could you please recommend significant work on topic modeling and small language models that you might have come across?
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New Blog post #HistDay25
Up the Lycabettus – lovely sunset: Amy Maud Hicks’ diary to Greece
Dr Rosario Rovira Guardiola explores a diary by Amy Maud Hicks, a well-known suffragette, during a trip to Greece in 1902 showcasing her early career as a Classicist & archaeologist: shorturl.at/W2i6Q
Up the Lycabettus – lovely sunset: Amy Maud Hicks’ diary to Greece
Dr Rosario Rovira Guardiola explores a diary by Amy Maud Hicks, a well-known suffragette, during a trip to Greece in 1902 showcasing her early career as a Classicist & archaeologist: shorturl.at/W2i6Q
Up the Lycabettus – lovely sunset: Amy Maud Hicks’ diary to Greece
Up the Lycabettus – lovely sunset: Amy Maud Hicks’ diary to Greec
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November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
New Blog post #HistDay25
Up the Lycabettus – lovely sunset: Amy Maud Hicks’ diary to Greece
Dr Rosario Rovira Guardiola explores a diary by Amy Maud Hicks, a well-known suffragette, during a trip to Greece in 1902 showcasing her early career as a Classicist & archaeologist: shorturl.at/W2i6Q
Up the Lycabettus – lovely sunset: Amy Maud Hicks’ diary to Greece
Dr Rosario Rovira Guardiola explores a diary by Amy Maud Hicks, a well-known suffragette, during a trip to Greece in 1902 showcasing her early career as a Classicist & archaeologist: shorturl.at/W2i6Q
If you have any ideas for Rainer, please do get in touch. You'll help me feel less guilty. I fear that my enthusiasm for annotation may be one (if not the) cause of his headache...
Task for today: brainstorming better ways to visualize heavily annotated text. The more I think about it, the harder it gets...
• Partial overlaps → clutter & a11y issues
• Exact overlaps → even worse
• Stacked underlines → work great... until they don't.
Seen elegant solutions? I’d love to chat!
• Partial overlaps → clutter & a11y issues
• Exact overlaps → even worse
• Stacked underlines → work great... until they don't.
Seen elegant solutions? I’d love to chat!
November 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If you have any ideas for Rainer, please do get in touch. You'll help me feel less guilty. I fear that my enthusiasm for annotation may be one (if not the) cause of his headache...
This is definitely me.
"There has been some debate over what Zeus’ “plan” is at the beginning of the poem...The process of refinement we witness in books 1-8 ... is a rewriting of the first nine years of the Trojan War to center Achilles’ rage as the pivotal point."
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/02/r...
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/02/r...
Rewriting the Plot: What The Structure of the Iliad’s First Third Accomplishes
Many of the structural and plot questions of the Iliad’s first third can be categorized as anxiety about anachronism, specifically the events that occur within books 2-8 that more ‘logically’ occur…
sententiaeantiquae.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This is definitely me.
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"There has been some debate over what Zeus’ “plan” is at the beginning of the poem...The process of refinement we witness in books 1-8 ... is a rewriting of the first nine years of the Trojan War to center Achilles’ rage as the pivotal point."
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/02/r...
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/02/r...
Rewriting the Plot: What The Structure of the Iliad’s First Third Accomplishes
Many of the structural and plot questions of the Iliad’s first third can be categorized as anxiety about anachronism, specifically the events that occur within books 2-8 that more ‘logically’ occur…
sententiaeantiquae.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"There has been some debate over what Zeus’ “plan” is at the beginning of the poem...The process of refinement we witness in books 1-8 ... is a rewriting of the first nine years of the Trojan War to center Achilles’ rage as the pivotal point."
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/02/r...
sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/02/r...
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#ISAW invites submissions for the graduate student conference: Reimagining Body and Space in the Ancient World held March 5-6th. Submissions are due by December 19th and should be emailed to [email protected].
For more info: isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-gr...
For more info: isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-gr...
November 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
#ISAW invites submissions for the graduate student conference: Reimagining Body and Space in the Ancient World held March 5-6th. Submissions are due by December 19th and should be emailed to [email protected].
For more info: isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-gr...
For more info: isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-gr...
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Quick reminder that @isawnyu.bsky.social is having a VIrtual Open House for Prospective Students day after tomorrow (Wednesday Nov. 5th, 10AM US Eastern time). Info and registration at isaw.nyu.edu/events/open-... . Please share if you think someone who would be interested hasn't signed up. Thanks!
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Quick reminder that @isawnyu.bsky.social is having a VIrtual Open House for Prospective Students day after tomorrow (Wednesday Nov. 5th, 10AM US Eastern time). Info and registration at isaw.nyu.edu/events/open-... . Please share if you think someone who would be interested hasn't signed up. Thanks!