Dr. Jeremy Swist
@metalclassicist.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out 26 September with Oxford University Press. Preorder: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
“Julian Augustus” out 26 September with Oxford University Press. Preorder: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
Saw the image on the left making the rounds today, so I made a version on the right with the correct Latin (for “in space, no one can hear you scream[ing]”).
Feel free to steal. I’m using this in class this week since we’re covering participles.
Feel free to steal. I’m using this in class this week since we’re covering participles.
January 21, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Saw the image on the left making the rounds today, so I made a version on the right with the correct Latin (for “in space, no one can hear you scream[ing]”).
Feel free to steal. I’m using this in class this week since we’re covering participles.
Feel free to steal. I’m using this in class this week since we’re covering participles.
Saw the image on the left making the rounds today, so I made a version on the right with the correct Latin (for “in space, no one can hear you scream[ing]”).
Feel free to steal. I’m using this in class this week since we’re covering participles.
Feel free to steal. I’m using this in class this week since we’re covering participles.
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Saw the image on the left making the rounds today, so I made a version on the right with the correct Latin (for “in space, no one can hear you scream[ing]”).
Feel free to steal. I’m using this in class this week since we’re covering participles.
Feel free to steal. I’m using this in class this week since we’re covering participles.
In Latin 2 I’m having one student present on a Latin author each week, and had them rank their choices.
Yes, this one got assigned Ovid.
Yes, this one got assigned Ovid.
January 17, 2026 at 7:45 PM
In Latin 2 I’m having one student present on a Latin author each week, and had them rank their choices.
Yes, this one got assigned Ovid.
Yes, this one got assigned Ovid.
Received proofs for my first co-authored publication! Nikki & I discuss classical reception in the Fate anime series, using Alexander, Atalanta, & Nero as case studies. This will appear in the @academic.oup.com volume "Animation & the Ancient World," edited by Chiara Sulprizio & Toph Marshall.
January 14, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Received proofs for my first co-authored publication! Nikki & I discuss classical reception in the Fate anime series, using Alexander, Atalanta, & Nero as case studies. This will appear in the @academic.oup.com volume "Animation & the Ancient World," edited by Chiara Sulprizio & Toph Marshall.
Proofs for my latest book review, coming out in JRS.
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Proofs for my latest book review, coming out in JRS.
Drove 11.5 hours back to Michigan today and found @curtisdozier.bsky.social ’s new book on my doorstep!
January 11, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Drove 11.5 hours back to Michigan today and found @curtisdozier.bsky.social ’s new book on my doorstep!
Evidence of my book on display at the Oxford UP booth at AIA-SCS in San Francisco. Thanks @davinamcclain.bsky.social for snapping a photo!
January 7, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Evidence of my book on display at the Oxford UP booth at AIA-SCS in San Francisco. Thanks @davinamcclain.bsky.social for snapping a photo!
Dude thinks we’re Athens & Greenland is Melos. He might want to read the rest of Thucydides & see what happened to the former.
January 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Dude thinks we’re Athens & Greenland is Melos. He might want to read the rest of Thucydides & see what happened to the former.
5 years since the undertakings that Jupiter sure as hell wasn’t nodding at.
January 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
5 years since the undertakings that Jupiter sure as hell wasn’t nodding at.
Who needs Clippy when I have Feetie.
January 5, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Who needs Clippy when I have Feetie.
I don’t think that’s how Metallica intended that phrase but ok.
January 5, 2026 at 4:39 PM
I don’t think that’s how Metallica intended that phrase but ok.
Go to the crows, Armand.
January 4, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Go to the crows, Armand.
What are the chances the novel itself was AI-generated as well…
January 4, 2026 at 1:28 PM
What are the chances the novel itself was AI-generated as well…
96 down, 99 to go.
January 3, 2026 at 11:23 PM
96 down, 99 to go.
Country #96 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is LIBERIA 🇱🇷
Liberian Peanut Soup is sautéed onions, chicken, & spinach in a broth flavored with peanut butter & tomato paste, & spiced with chili peppers.
Liberian Peanut Soup is sautéed onions, chicken, & spinach in a broth flavored with peanut butter & tomato paste, & spiced with chili peppers.
January 3, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Country #96 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is LIBERIA 🇱🇷
Liberian Peanut Soup is sautéed onions, chicken, & spinach in a broth flavored with peanut butter & tomato paste, & spiced with chili peppers.
Liberian Peanut Soup is sautéed onions, chicken, & spinach in a broth flavored with peanut butter & tomato paste, & spiced with chili peppers.
95 down, 100 to go.
January 1, 2026 at 10:47 PM
95 down, 100 to go.
Country #95 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is LESOTHO 🇱🇸
Likhobe is a porridge of sorghum grain & bulgur wheat, with speckled beans, onions, peppers, & celery, flavored with coconut oil, turmeric, sage, coriander, paprika, & marjoram.
Likhobe is a porridge of sorghum grain & bulgur wheat, with speckled beans, onions, peppers, & celery, flavored with coconut oil, turmeric, sage, coriander, paprika, & marjoram.
January 1, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Country #95 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is LESOTHO 🇱🇸
Likhobe is a porridge of sorghum grain & bulgur wheat, with speckled beans, onions, peppers, & celery, flavored with coconut oil, turmeric, sage, coriander, paprika, & marjoram.
Likhobe is a porridge of sorghum grain & bulgur wheat, with speckled beans, onions, peppers, & celery, flavored with coconut oil, turmeric, sage, coriander, paprika, & marjoram.
Went down to Providence today with @drchristinah.bsky.social to see the exhibition on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescos, reproduced at exact scale for up close viewing, so we could admire the finer details with neither the crowds nor that museum worker yelling “silenzio!” every ten seconds.
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Went down to Providence today with @drchristinah.bsky.social to see the exhibition on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescos, reproduced at exact scale for up close viewing, so we could admire the finer details with neither the crowds nor that museum worker yelling “silenzio!” every ten seconds.
JEREMY'S PERSONAL TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2025
Bloody Valkyria
Messa
Zeicrydeus
Lamp of Murmuur
Eternal Darkness
Blood Abscission
Deafheaven
Rothadás
Havukruunu
Vultures Vengeance
Teitanblood
Phrenelith
Geistlicht
Ancient Death
Ildaruni
Sumerian Tombs
Clairvoyance
Dolmen Gate
Fer de Lance
Eleventh Ray
Bloody Valkyria
Messa
Zeicrydeus
Lamp of Murmuur
Eternal Darkness
Blood Abscission
Deafheaven
Rothadás
Havukruunu
Vultures Vengeance
Teitanblood
Phrenelith
Geistlicht
Ancient Death
Ildaruni
Sumerian Tombs
Clairvoyance
Dolmen Gate
Fer de Lance
Eleventh Ray
December 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
JEREMY'S PERSONAL TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2025
Bloody Valkyria
Messa
Zeicrydeus
Lamp of Murmuur
Eternal Darkness
Blood Abscission
Deafheaven
Rothadás
Havukruunu
Vultures Vengeance
Teitanblood
Phrenelith
Geistlicht
Ancient Death
Ildaruni
Sumerian Tombs
Clairvoyance
Dolmen Gate
Fer de Lance
Eleventh Ray
Bloody Valkyria
Messa
Zeicrydeus
Lamp of Murmuur
Eternal Darkness
Blood Abscission
Deafheaven
Rothadás
Havukruunu
Vultures Vengeance
Teitanblood
Phrenelith
Geistlicht
Ancient Death
Ildaruni
Sumerian Tombs
Clairvoyance
Dolmen Gate
Fer de Lance
Eleventh Ray
is this reception
December 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
is this reception
Gift from my sister.
December 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Gift from my sister.
