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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 2d

Wow.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 13d

Bakchos was an alternative name for Dionysus in Greek. The Romans took the name ftom Greek!

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 18d

I used to own a company that made money from origami. It folded.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 18d

I trawled through Euripides' Bacchae and found a dozen lines Aristophanes *could* easily have inserted for a laugh had he known the Bacchae in any detail.

I’ve just published my piece on it in a Festschrift honouring my friend and erstwhile colleague Chris Kraus (Yale).

'THE SILENCE OF THE FROGS'

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 25d

Everything can be distorted though, even that comment. (“Accuse them of speaking ill of the dead”, she once advised).

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Sep 3

Catullus’s rudest poem, my new translation. You know you want to read it. You can even hear it read.

open.substack.com/pub/armandda...

Catullus's rudest poem

Friendship and poetry

open.substack.com

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Aug 27

Latest Cavafy translation.

Cavafy's poem "Satrapy" is set in the historical framework of an ancient Athenian citizen (5th cent. BC) being co-opted by the Persian Empire of Artaxerxes. It's a metaphor for someone ruining their life for the sake of gain...

armanddangour.substack.com/p/better-die...

Better die free than live a slave

Cavafy's Satrapy

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Aug 24

Advice from 1911.
When you discover too late that you’ve always skipped a crucial step…

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ancient Greek poet-songwriter Anacreon (c. 573-495 BC) complains about getting old.

See my temples greyed already
and my head with hair all whitened:
happy youth no more is with me,
but my agèd teeth are crumbling
and the charm of life is shortened...

armanddangour.substack.com/p/the-poets-...

The Poet's Complaint

Rhythms of old age and false teeth

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Aug 21

I was once driving in Mexico and entered a one way street the wrong way. A traffic cop took my passport and told me I would have to pay a fine. I felt like a criminal. I suggested entrusting the cash to him. He took the money (£25), then escorted me to the motorway, an honoured visitor to his town.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Aug 21

On a train. It’s curious how, as I search vainly on my phone for ticket and railcard, I’m made to feel like a fare dodger. Then I find it and am thanked politely, now a welcome customer.

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · Aug 18

It may appear to be a welcoming symbol, but history tells us a red carpet is often a trap.

Rolling out the red carpet | @armanddangour.bsky.social

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Rolling out the red carpet

It may appear to be a welcoming symbol, but history tells us a red carpet is often a trap.

engelsbergideas.com

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Aug 11

Catullus in love.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Aug 9

How kind.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Aug 9

Aspice turbarum series longas et iniquas…

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Aug 9

Larkin (about)

www.wussu.com/poems/plam.htm

Philip Larkin - Annus Mirabilis

www.wussu.com

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Aug 9

Sexual intercourse began
In 63 BC
(which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of the Catiline coup
And Catullus' first whoopee.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Aug 3

Opening lines of Homer's Odyssey, new translation.

That man of many twists and turns, Muse, tell of him, who far
went wandering when he had sacked Troy’s sacred citadel,
who many cities saw, and many thoughts of men discerned...

armanddangour.substack.com/p/translatin...

Translating the Odyssey

The rhythm of The Man

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Aug 8

Logie Leggatt, a fine athlete at Eton, enlisted when World War I broke out in 1914. He revered his old school.
On 31 July 1917 he was killed, aged 22, by a sniper's bullet.

Logie is honoured in the Greek Ode I composed for his great-nephew George, Lord Leggatt:

open.substack.com/pub/armandda...

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Aug 3

Opening lines of Homer's Odyssey, new translation.

That man of many twists and turns, Muse, tell of him, who far
went wandering when he had sacked Troy’s sacred citadel,
who many cities saw, and many thoughts of men discerned...

armanddangour.substack.com/p/translatin...

Translating the Odyssey

The rhythm of The Man

armanddangour.substack.com

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Jul 24

Some challenges, like bedsheets, should just be turned down

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · Jul 24

Excellent piece by @armanddangour.bsky.social On the use of writing In ancient Athens and in the age of AI.

🗃️ 🏺 #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky #skystorians #language #AI

armanddangour.substack.com/p/on-the-use...

On the Use of Writing

In ancient Athens - and in the age of AI

armanddangour.substack.com

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Jul 24

I've been invited to a conference in Zeugma.
I can't go so have declined with regret and by email.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Jul 22

The werewolf story from Petronius still gives people goosebumps….

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A Roman Werewolf

Tales of the Supernatural

open.substack.com

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · Jul 22

about 2' 6"

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