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krokopeplos.bsky.social
Rebecca Posner-Hess
@krokopeplos.bsky.social
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"the time is the present, the place is Ancient Greece."
she/her, UChicago Classics PhD candidate, rhapsode in the most literal sense. interests include silence, stripping, and stuff on the ancient stage 🌈✡️🏺🎭
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since we're coming up on that time of the year again
www.redbubble.com/i/sweatshirt...
a dark blue sweatshirt with the text "ΣΕΛΕΥΚΙΔΟΙ ΕΡΧΟΝΤΑΙ ΟΙΚΟΣ", portions of which are crossed out and corrected to read "ΣΕΛΕΥΚΙΔΑΙ ΕΡΧΕΣΘΕ ΟΙΚΑΔΕ". above and below the text are borders of menorahs and six-pointed stars stylized to look like intarsia knitting on a holiday sweater. the text "ΣΕΛΕΥΚΙΔΟΙ ΕΡΧΟΝΤΑΙ ΟΙΚΟΣ", portions of which are crossed out and corrected to read "ΣΕΛΕΥΚΙΔΑΙ ΕΡΧΕΣΘΕ ΟΙΚΑΔΕ". above and below the text are borders of menorahs and six-pointed stars stylized to look like intarsia knitting on a holiday sweater.
November 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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a periodic illustration of what I mean by "rhapsode in the most literal sense" (ῥάπτω+ἀοιδή)
A cross-stitch sample in orange thread on a black background. At the center is the text ἀλλ᾿ ἴσθι τλήμων οὖσ᾿ ἀπ᾿ εὐτόλμου φρενός / οὐδεὶς ἀκούει ταῦτα τῶν εὐδαιμόνων. Above and below the text are rows of heart-shaped palmette motifs.
September 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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I figure this image should come in handy
'Phoenicians mentioned' version of the 'Brazil mentioned' or 'Chicago mentioned' meme with an anime-style girl in a pose and expression of celebration. She holds an amphora in one hand and a wine glass in the other and wears a bronze helmet, a necklace of Phoenician glass and gold beads, and a sweatshirt with the sign of Tanit on the chest. The background is a watercolor painting of the city of Carthage in its prime. Text below reads "Phoenicians mentioned".
August 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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neither iota subscript nor iota adscript but a secret third thing
July 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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I genuinely love how Sophocles keeps sneaking into works that are purportedly based only on Aeschylus
Version of the Scooby-Doo "let's see who this really is" unmasking meme. The hooded figure in the first panel is labelled 'Oresteia adaptation.' The same figure in the second panel is labelled as 'Sophocles' Electra,' and its hood is removed to reveal, in place of a head, an early 19th century neoclassical painting of Orestes attempting to take the urn from Electra
June 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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pulled up my working document and remembered that this is currently the official draft version of chapter 1 section 1 in its entirety
I. The Three-Body Oresteia: Actors, Roles, and Repetition in Ancient Performance and Modern Adaptation τρισώματος
May 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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theonion.com/alphabet-upd...
Poorly edited image of a bust of the Roman Emperor Claudius at a podium gesturing at a letter-like symbol on a screen behind him. Below is the caption "Alphabet Updated with 15 Exciting New Replacement Letters" and the logo of the Onion.
May 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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three down, thirteen to go. I might even finish it this year.
three orange cross-stitched palmette motifs on black fabric
April 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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genuinely this feels like official recognition
Dear Rebecca Posner-Hess: Let me to present to you something that maybe will attract your attention, concerning part of your actual work Greek tragedy and epic,. The book “Method to recover ancient writings” allows the Searcher to find the original text of any ancient text. We have created 5 videos with recovered texts of Aesop,
April 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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idk maybe this is a me problem and not a classicist problem. what do you mean you don't know what a 'weft' is???
xkcd 'average familiarity meme' edited to read "Ancient textile production is second nature to us classicists so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the warp-weighted loom and how to drape one or two peploi. And drop spindle of course. Of course."
March 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet.
(He can't read but I think he would be offended by this message.)
photograph of a large brown dog sitting next to a doormat decorated with the image of a 'cave canem' mosaic from Pompeii
March 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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sorry, that position’s already been filled
a medium brown dog sitting in front of an open book as if reading
February 7, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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new cover image for my dissertation prospectus, inspired by the comments I keep getting on my drafts
still from Shrek of Shrek saying "ogres are like onions", edited to read "tragic bodies are like onions"
February 7, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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might have to hang this over my desk next to the "Historians Admit To Inventing Ancient Greeks" printout
Photograph of a framed cross-stitch sampler in pink thread around the central text "τί μώρος εἶ;", which translates to "why are you being an idiot?" Below is the smaller text "-Eur. Alc. 552", and surrounding are several borders in the style of Greek keys and ivy leaves.
January 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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2024 @jstor.bsky.social wrapped just dropped
Spotify wrapped template with the album cover as the JSTOR logo. The top five songs and artists are five paper titles with their authors. The 'top artists' are 1. Eva Stehle, 2. Jennifer Starkey, 3. Emmanuela Bakola, 4. Melissa Mueller, 5. Kirk Ormand. The 'top songs' are 1. "The Body and Its Representations in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazousai: Where Does the Costume End?", 2. "The Origin and Purpose of the Three-Actor Rule", 3. "Interiority, the "Deep Earth" and the Spatial Symbolism of Darius’ Apparition in the Persians of Aeschylus", 4. "The Politics of Gesture in Sophocles' Antigone", 5. "Silent by Convention? Sophocles' Tekmessa".
December 4, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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this is what I've been up to while inactive on here btw. I'm a Eumenides fan now.
"I don't believe that man has ever been to medical school" meme edited to have two snake-haired Furies saying "I don't believe that sun god has ever been to law school!"
November 10, 2024 at 4:43 AM
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ok i think i have a new favorite tragic fragment and it's this, the only thing we have of aeschylus' iphigenia
"94. It is not right to revile women. How could it be?"
April 10, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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from generation to generation
A powerpoint slide with the large text "What is wrong here? And how do we fix it?" followed in a different font by the large text "Rōmānes eunt domus". The powerpoint is titled "LATN 102_Jan24_midterm practice".
January 24, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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Chicago folks, please join us for the winter 2024 Rhetoric & Poetics workshops!
Rhetoric and Poetics Winter 2024 Workshop Schedule Jan 9: Suzanne Lye (UNC Chapel Hill) “By Homer’s Design: Hypertextual Modeling in Ancient Underworld Scenes” Feb 1: Fazel Ahad Ahadi “Antigone, a Beginning to Stand Against Tyranny” (RSVP requested, location TBA) Feb 8: Laura Bevilacqua (PhD, Classics) “Lost in Translation: The Cost of Capitalization in Editorial Choices” Feb 15: Nathan Katkin “No More Utopias: The Classical Turn in Ursula Le Guin’s Last Novels” Feb 22: James Uden (Boston University) title TBD all workshops held at 3:30 pm in Classics 21 unless otherwise noted
January 4, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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jstor wrapped 2023
A 2023 'Spotify Wrapped' graphic, edited so that the central album cover is the JSTOR logo and the top artists/songs are five scholarly articles: Lyndsay Coo, A Tale of Two Sisters: Studies in Sophocles' Tereus; Alex C. Purves, Wind and Time in Homeric Epic; Laura McClure, Tokens of Identity: Gender and Recognition in Greek Tragedy; P. J. Finglass, A New Fragment of Sophocles' 'Tereus'; and Jonas Grethlein, Eine Anthropologie des Essens: Der Essensstreit in der 'Ilias' und die Erntemetapher in Il. 19, 221-224. The top genre is "Sophocles."
December 4, 2023 at 3:59 PM
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a classic holiday sweater to celebrate the true meaning of hanukkah
November 6, 2023 at 9:46 PM
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Chicago folks, please join us for the fall 2023 slate of Rhetoric & Poetics workshops!
Oct 5: David Delbar "Devious Bodies: Disabled Masculinity in Homer" Oct 19: Michael Allen "Classical Self-Fashioning in the Carolingian Age: Cicero and Vergil, Einhard and Lupus of Ferrières" Nov 9: Hannah Čulík-Baird (UCLA) "E. B. Tylor and M. T. Cicero at the Dawn of Anthropology" Nov 16: Madelaine Thompson "Reconsidering Euclio in Plautus’ Aulularia"
September 27, 2023 at 5:20 PM