Phil major, turned archivist, turned IT guy. Jewish Catholic. In favor of books, jazz, linux, and language study. 敬四旧
Maryland, USA
Joined July 2018
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Studying: Greek, Latin, Gaelic, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Hungarian, Yiddish, Japanese, Chinese
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Our holiday sale is on: every book in our store is 30% off through Monday, November 30, with the code SATURNALIA, and our shirts are too.
ALT Six Contubernales covers (Odyssea, Meditations, Herodotus Latinus, Julia, Camilla, Epistulae Erasmi) above a navy band: Saturnalia sale, 30% off every book, code SATURNALIA, through Monday, November 30.
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I can't think of a better way to read Latin inscriptions than with Mappola. Text, apparatus, translation, map of find spot where known, images of the stone where available, and much more! db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions…
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Automatically add interlinear translation to any Latin and Ancient Greek text, control how much is revealed by the helper bar. stobaeus.ai/reader/
“In this way, I came to see that the primary purpose of our two months in Greece was not to learn the language itself, but to learn to love the world it opened for us. Greek and the great texts were simply means of paying deeper attention to the world, and of understanding it, and ourselves, in new ways.”
Meet Ashley Zhang, a current MA student at Ralston College.
Driven by the question “What does it mean to flourish in our technological age?” Ashley came to Ralston after attending the College’s AI and the Battle for the Soul symposium last year.
Read Ashley’s reflections on her journey from Silicon Valley to Ralston in her Substack essay, The Education of a Humanist.
softpower.press/p/the-educat…
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With one of my posts yesterday getting a good number of views, I thought I’d use this post to introduce myself to those who don’t already know me.
I’m Barbarian Herodotus, I love history, beauty, great books, and enjoy studying the lives of great men, particularly Theodore Roosevelt.
I’m a husband, father, and faithful Catholic. I’ve spent time living in a ger (yurt) at the foot of the Altai mountains in Mongolia, and have also lived in Japan. I am a proud and patriotic American.
My goal with this account is to pursue and promote virtue. To truly will the good.
I also have a substack and a YouTube channel where I frequently post.
If you also desire the highest good, join me. I’d love to have you along on the journey.
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Cool beans. You can now read Josephus in Latin and English, beside the original Greek, thanks to this lovely site produced by Richard Matthew Pollard and team at Université du Québec à Montréal. Also: medieval manuscript annotations. latinjosephus.org/releases/3…
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What's that? You want an interactive 3-D model of a Homeric ship, with annotations discussing the Greek terms and pictorial evidence for the reconstruction? Done. 3dviewer.sites.carleton.edu/…
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Periodic reminder that ‘I’m just going to do this’ is a perfectly good self-study plan.
#LanguageLearning #langtwt
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My first book is out today with @BloomsburyAcad. Dan Mahoney said the book is "A lucid and most discerning account of Abraham Lincoln's decades-long engagement with the poetic, political and historical wisdom of Shakespeare." Link in reply!
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Have you seen the MANTO database of Greek myth? There is a wealth of beautifully curated and organized information there, and you can get involved in the project. caneweb.org/help-make-the-ma…
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The Pope's Latinist, A Life of Reginald Thomas Foster, published by the @Paideiainstitut, will be released Dec. 17 2026. Preorders available from Paideia here: paideiainstitute.org/popes_l…. It's been a labor of love, and I am very proud of the results.
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The proofs are here! One step closer to publication in April 2027.
boydellandbrewer.com/book/ed…
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I’m making a list of all of the free language learning resources that I’ve shared to add them to our website.
Please share your favorite resources below — especially for Arabic and Russian — so I can add them too! #langtwt
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I'm teaching Ancient Greek for the first time in a while this spring, and this Eton College verb tester is really putting me through my paces. Extremely useful! etoncollege.com/eton-greek/ @Eton_College
The Great Brain is greatest kids book ever
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Greek and Latin texts :: with great helps, for students of all levels --
Geoffrey Steadman has been making these for years now.
I highly recommend them. If you haven't seen them, they are real gems.
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This is a wonderful Ancient Greek morphology tool from Eton College:
etoncollege.com/eton-greek/
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6 things done in the last 6 months since creating my account:
1) Organically grew to over 11K followers.
2) Built a free educational website with thousands of hours worth of no-ad, no-signup content (teddyrookbook.com)
3) Noticed a rhythmic pattern in the continued-fraction approximations of π (and related constants) and turned the idea into six original pieces of music.
4) Identified an original lexical connection in The Brothers Karamazov between the Russian Bible Dostoevsky likely used and the original Greek version.
5) Developed a neutral metaphysics framework for comparing ultimate explanations of the physical order across worldviews.
6) Spotted a candidate for a previously unrecorded archaeological site in Peru on satellite imagery (unverified).
What have y’all been up to the last six months?
