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reading into Homeric and Statian studies with a focus on the Iliad and the Thebaid

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artandbeauty71

legit crazy how one day you're a middle schooler who's obsessed with disney hercules and reads about greek myths in her free time and the next you're studying the most niche ass ancient author and his obscure epigrams for your classical philology course. how time flies

alwaysbeenjessica

year one of the phd was so transformative and diminished the illusions of academia that i forgot how i am (still) so fortunate to study what i love

I seriously need a sleep study, because what do you mean I've had three naps today and just woke up from another 70 minute nap at a cafe in public?? I got like 8 hours of sleep, I've been eating, I've been going to the gym, but I have no idea what's wrong with me. (I've gotten blood tests done and there's nothing out of the ordinary there. luckily I have a sleep study appointment but that's not until halfway through the semester). as someone who desperately wants to stay awake and focus and be able to drink caffeine and have it keep me alert, my struggles with sleep frustrate me so much and I just want an answer and solutions...

#i'm so tired #so tired of taking naps #I just want to be productive #studyblr #grad studyblr #classics student

fella-lovin-fella

i hate it when people mistake "etymology" with "entomology." like, i know where they coming from but it still bugs me

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can we please stop using enslaved people as practice sentences/stories in latin and ancient greek instruction? there was never a need for it and the field of classics as a whole would benefit from leaving that in the past. you would not do this for a modern language, so why is it acceptable for every latin/greek textbook to focus on this? now go look up John Wesley Edward Bowen, Sarah Derbew, Shelley P. Haley, Kelly Nguyen, Dominic Machado, and Christopher Waldo for starters

#seriously because classics has already been misused by racists and white supremacists #not to mention that it is so uncomfortable for classics students of color #it simply should not be acceptable anymore #i will die on this hill #i don’t care if the goal is to familiarize students with the culture and society of the ancient world #there’s so much recent scholarship about the intersectionality of race and classics #and yes it bothers me that some of my professors still do this #go diversify your classics research #classics student #latin language #ancient greek language

deep-down-in-drowsy-town

what they don't tell you about translation is that it takes SO FUCKING LONG i've been working for two hours and i've done.. like five lines of text???

locking in

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went to a cafe to study. ended up falling asleep

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fullyconsumedbywhatlovesme

Peter Hall's 1983 staging of Tony Harrison's adaptation of Aeschylus' Oresteia.

This is legitimately my comfort watch now.

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🛬 debrief 4/7/2026 Tuesday

I was more productive towards the end of the day, especially with my grading. But I'm sort of pulling an all nighter because I have two quizzes tomorrow that I need to study for. Maybe I'll take a nap at my desk, we'll see....

Tasks accomplished:

🌳 2h 45m

- finish grading late work

- grade subjunctives 1

- grade subjunctives 2

- grade conditionals

- fold laundry

- clean desk and bedroom

Tasks for Tomorrow:

🛫 4/8/2026

- study Agamemnon lines 218--280

- study Agamemnon lines 320--350, 475--500

- prepare Agamemnon lines 855--886

- start translation project

- prepare Apocolocyntosis sections 4.18--7.17

- review French notes I struggle with

- clean kitchen

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4/7/2026 Tuesday

I really need to stay locked in today...

🌳 0h 0m

Tasks:

- finish grading late work

- read Apocolocyntosis sections 4.18--5.19

- reread Apocolocyntosis sections 1--4.17

- grade subjunctives 1

- grade subjunctives 2

- grade conditionals

- create alternate assignment

- grade project 1

- read Agamemnon lines 218--280

- read Agamemnon lines 810--854

- read Agamemnon lines 855--886

- start translation project

- review French grammar that I struggle with

- clean kitchen

- fold laundry

- clean desk and bedroom

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4/6/2026 Monday DEBRIEF

I didn't get nearly as much done as I should have. Unfortunately I think I'm still burnt out and trying to recover while also trying to stay on track with my classes...

🌳 3h 44m

Tasks accomplished:

- grade self introduction

- grade chapter 6 translation

- grade chapter 6 reflection

I'm disappointed in myself for not having been more locked in because I have to make up the difference today

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4/6/2026 Monday

🌳 0h 32m

to do:

- grade self introduction

- grade chapter 6 translation

- grade chapter 6 reflection

- grade present subjunctives

- grade other subjunctives

- grade conditionals

- grade R+T #1

- create alternate assignment

- read 218-280 of Aeschylus' Agamemnon

- read 810-854 of Aeschylus' Agamemnon

- read 855-886 of Aeschylus' Agamemnon

- start translation project

- reread Apocolocyntosis sections 1-4.17

- read Apocolocyntosis sections 4.18-5.19

- review shaky French notes

- clean kitchen

- fold laundry

- clean desk + bedroom

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figured out why I've been so unfocused these past few days.... I've accidentally forgotten to take my ADHD meds a few days in a row 😭 this is so frustrating, no wonder it feels like I keep hitting brick walls

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athenais-studies

have you heard much modern greek? do you understand it?

Hi! Thank you for your question! I haven't heard much modern Greek, but I do know that a lot of the pronunciation has changed (as languages tend to do). I've only studied ancient Greek, and that was taught to me in a very different way from my Japanese classes. In my Latin and Greek classes we focus a lot on advancing through grammar and then reading passages into English in class, as opposed to learning how to fluently speak and produce Latin/ancient Greek. I can't speak ancient Greek or Latin at all, but I can read and understand it with a dictionary on hand. Because of the linguistic changes between ancient and modern Greek, I really can't understand anything 😅. I would love to learn modern Greek, though!

Thank you again for your question!

phantaksi

very cool, thanks for answering! you're very aware of the presence of historical pronunciation shifts but have you learned much about them in your classes? also, what era of latin and ancient greek did your classes focus on? how ancient are we talking lol

athenais-studies

I haven't learned much about the linguistics of the shift from ancient to modern Greece in classes, unfortunately....

However, my main area of emphasis is Homeric Greek, so pretty ancient haha! I've read Euripides, Aeschylus, as well as Plato and Aristotle, as well as lots of other smaller selections I don't remember (such as from the New Testament) when I was first learning. As for Latin, I've read as early as Plautus and as late as Tacitus! It's very interesting to see the differences between each era of Latin/ancient Greek, and it's always a major comprehension shift between authors for me. Everyone writes in such a different style!

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have you heard much modern greek? do you understand it?

Hi! Thank you for your question! I haven't heard much modern Greek, but I do know that a lot of the pronunciation has changed (as languages tend to do). I've only studied ancient Greek, and that was taught to me in a very different way from my Japanese classes. In my Latin and Greek classes we focus a lot on advancing through grammar and then reading passages into English in class, as opposed to learning how to fluently speak and produce Latin/ancient Greek. I can't speak ancient Greek or Latin at all, but I can read and understand it with a dictionary on hand. Because of the linguistic changes between ancient and modern Greek, I really can't understand anything 😅. I would love to learn modern Greek, though!

Thank you again for your question!

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