William Clapp
@williamclapp.bsky.social
⚽️ & 🏏 follower, Iliad-enthusiast, runner, UK local government worker
I know nothing about the subject, but…would sacrifice generally need to be of something alive, and a fish out of water would already be dead, so unless the sacrifice is conducted under water it wouldn’t work? Can one sacrifice a corpse?
December 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I know nothing about the subject, but…would sacrifice generally need to be of something alive, and a fish out of water would already be dead, so unless the sacrifice is conducted under water it wouldn’t work? Can one sacrifice a corpse?
If only she’d wailed <oimoi talaina> instead of that visceral shrieking into the well…
Opportunity missed 🙂
Opportunity missed 🙂
October 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
If only she’d wailed <oimoi talaina> instead of that visceral shrieking into the well…
Opportunity missed 🙂
Opportunity missed 🙂
Same. Made me realise I should have chosen Greek rather than German to study at age 14 (Greek and Latin included literature, German and French just language, and Aen II was one of the texts). That led to summer vacation Greek cramming and eventually Classics rather than Modern Langs at uni.
September 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Same. Made me realise I should have chosen Greek rather than German to study at age 14 (Greek and Latin included literature, German and French just language, and Aen II was one of the texts). That led to summer vacation Greek cramming and eventually Classics rather than Modern Langs at uni.
I bet it’s brekekekek koax koax 🙂
September 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I bet it’s brekekekek koax koax 🙂
A whole series beckons (albeit a short one)… pi for maths types, delta for change managers, alpha and omega for theologians. Must be some others too…
August 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
A whole series beckons (albeit a short one)… pi for maths types, delta for change managers, alpha and omega for theologians. Must be some others too…
Not sure this counts as a fun design being way too easy, but… a nice big simple capital lambda for the often maligned Lakedaimonians 🙂
August 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Not sure this counts as a fun design being way too easy, but… a nice big simple capital lambda for the often maligned Lakedaimonians 🙂
At home to Weymouth in the next round
August 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
At home to Weymouth in the next round
3-0 to the Romans! 👏
August 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
3-0 to the Romans! 👏
Disappointingly it’s Christchurch FC
August 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Disappointingly it’s Christchurch FC
I reckon “Romanes eunt domus” is more likely 🙂
August 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I reckon “Romanes eunt domus” is more likely 🙂
Paestum…wonderful site, particularly liked the fact that it has retained its Latin name, rather than becoming Pesto 🙂
May 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Paestum…wonderful site, particularly liked the fact that it has retained its Latin name, rather than becoming Pesto 🙂
3/n:
We can’t now access the tree, but by considering its image we can say interesting things about the tree, while recognising that discussion of the tree requires significant, speculative leaps. By contrast we’re on solid ground in talking about the image of the tree - in the end we have the text.
We can’t now access the tree, but by considering its image we can say interesting things about the tree, while recognising that discussion of the tree requires significant, speculative leaps. By contrast we’re on solid ground in talking about the image of the tree - in the end we have the text.
May 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
3/n:
We can’t now access the tree, but by considering its image we can say interesting things about the tree, while recognising that discussion of the tree requires significant, speculative leaps. By contrast we’re on solid ground in talking about the image of the tree - in the end we have the text.
We can’t now access the tree, but by considering its image we can say interesting things about the tree, while recognising that discussion of the tree requires significant, speculative leaps. By contrast we’re on solid ground in talking about the image of the tree - in the end we have the text.
2/n:
The fixer of the text (Homer, if you will) inevitably, like any painter, interpreted the object before him (tree/oral epic) i.e. made decisions about how to depict it, what would be included in or omitted from the canvas/text etc.
The fixer of the text (Homer, if you will) inevitably, like any painter, interpreted the object before him (tree/oral epic) i.e. made decisions about how to depict it, what would be included in or omitted from the canvas/text etc.
May 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
2/n:
The fixer of the text (Homer, if you will) inevitably, like any painter, interpreted the object before him (tree/oral epic) i.e. made decisions about how to depict it, what would be included in or omitted from the canvas/text etc.
The fixer of the text (Homer, if you will) inevitably, like any painter, interpreted the object before him (tree/oral epic) i.e. made decisions about how to depict it, what would be included in or omitted from the canvas/text etc.
Really enjoyed the book, thank you 👏
Love the tree analogy but have something to say about it that will require >1 comment 🙂
Here’s 1/n:
The Iliad as we have it today is less a tree, more an image of a tree. The development of our Iliad was halted at the time its text was (more or less) fixed.
Love the tree analogy but have something to say about it that will require >1 comment 🙂
Here’s 1/n:
The Iliad as we have it today is less a tree, more an image of a tree. The development of our Iliad was halted at the time its text was (more or less) fixed.
May 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Really enjoyed the book, thank you 👏
Love the tree analogy but have something to say about it that will require >1 comment 🙂
Here’s 1/n:
The Iliad as we have it today is less a tree, more an image of a tree. The development of our Iliad was halted at the time its text was (more or less) fixed.
Love the tree analogy but have something to say about it that will require >1 comment 🙂
Here’s 1/n:
The Iliad as we have it today is less a tree, more an image of a tree. The development of our Iliad was halted at the time its text was (more or less) fixed.
Imperialists’ motto always and everywhere: Think local, act global.
February 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Imperialists’ motto always and everywhere: Think local, act global.
Just putting in a word for Alcaeus on the last one 🙂
February 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Just putting in a word for Alcaeus on the last one 🙂
I was a repeat attender in the 80s - beginners to get me ready to do O level in one year, intermediate to get me ready to do A level in one year, advanced just because I loved it!
Part of my Head of Classics’ not so subtle plan to steer me away from modern languages and onto the true path ❤️
Part of my Head of Classics’ not so subtle plan to steer me away from modern languages and onto the true path ❤️
February 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I was a repeat attender in the 80s - beginners to get me ready to do O level in one year, intermediate to get me ready to do A level in one year, advanced just because I loved it!
Part of my Head of Classics’ not so subtle plan to steer me away from modern languages and onto the true path ❤️
Part of my Head of Classics’ not so subtle plan to steer me away from modern languages and onto the true path ❤️
Took me 30+ years to get round to reading it, but James Redfield, Tragedy of Hector: Nature & Culture in the Iliad. Loved its simplicity and clarity compared to the complexity and obscurity that seems to me to be a feature of a lot of Homeric scholarship.
January 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Took me 30+ years to get round to reading it, but James Redfield, Tragedy of Hector: Nature & Culture in the Iliad. Loved its simplicity and clarity compared to the complexity and obscurity that seems to me to be a feature of a lot of Homeric scholarship.
Wreath of Achilles
I’ll get my coat 🤦🏻♂️
I’ll get my coat 🤦🏻♂️
a dirt road going through a desert with a mountain in the background
Alt: Tumbleweed blown across a dirt road going through a desert with a mountain in the background
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December 17, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Wreath of Achilles
I’ll get my coat 🤦🏻♂️
I’ll get my coat 🤦🏻♂️
Wherever and whenever the Iliad was first being performed in something like the form we have it today….assuming that’s at least 2,500 years ago….
Might answer a few questions 👀
Might answer a few questions 👀
November 17, 2024 at 6:26 AM
Wherever and whenever the Iliad was first being performed in something like the form we have it today….assuming that’s at least 2,500 years ago….
Might answer a few questions 👀
Might answer a few questions 👀
No, not heard of him, thanks. I’ll have a look 👍🏼
November 12, 2024 at 7:28 PM
No, not heard of him, thanks. I’ll have a look 👍🏼