Classics-related links

26 Oct 2020
Tongue-twisters in Bergamasco

Language Log on consonant deletion in my favourite dialect of Italian.
15 July 2020
The Londonist with 23 of the world’s most marvellous museums that you can visit virtually

Including the Acropolis Museum
19 May 2020
10 of the best novels set in Greece - that will take you there

The Guardian with some great armchair travel suggestions.
27 April 2020
A dazzling drone flight round a deserted Rome

@RomaMedieval on Twitter with some great drone footage of Rome
13 April 2019
The Moo of the Wild

Pictures of Aurochs for Corpus students!
13 April 2019
10 literary translations on the art of translation

h/t @EmilyRCWilson on Twitter
22 Mar 2019
A Phonetic Map of the Human Mouth

via kottke.org
1 Mar 2019
Mapping the Odyssey isn’t easy

via kottke.org
24 Jan 2019
The evolution of the alphabet

via kottke.org
23 Dec 2018
A timeline map of the 200000-year history of human civilization

via kottke.org
19 Dec 2018
Mamma Mia in Ancient Greek

Μὰ τὸν Δία! via @DMendelsohn1960 on Twitter
16 May 2018
Map showing Odysseus’ Odyssey
17 Mar 2018
On translating in public

Kottke.org with a selection of Emily Wilson’s interesting tweets about translating the Odyssey.
02 Mar 2018
The history of "I am," "to be," "it was"
Kottke.org on Arika Okrent on the history of ‘to be’.
11 February 2017
Map showing the homeland of every character in Homer’s Iliad
19 Dec 2016
Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek
from Open Culture.
17 Sep 2016
You say potato...
Distant languages sound more similar than you might expect.
18 Oct 2015
Johnson Lost in translation.
False friends and other problems.
18 Oct 2015 Ink paste
Helps you learn new words as you come across them.
18 Oct 2015
3 principles of learning:
1. Embrace discomfort. 2. Stop cramming. 3. Make connections.
18 Oct 2015
Listen and learn
3 years worth of recordings to study how children learn - it's all about context.
17 Feb 2015
Ida Östenberg on Twitter
"This is a favourite portrait of Homer, labelled vero ritratto (true portrait), by Jérome David (ca. 1605-1670)
1 Dec 2014
Henry George Liddell on Twitter
"ἀργιόδοντος ὑὸς κυνέη —"a bright-tooth boar's helmet," Iliad 10.260: Mycenaean, Bronze Age and conspicuous
28 Sep 2014
Subjunctive subtleties
An article by the Economist's Johnson on the subjunctive in English.

"Even Rupert Murdoch, who opened a new London headquarters for his UK newspapers last week, is insisting that each of the titles turns a profit, rather than relying on subsidies from other parts of his media empire."
20 Aug 2014
Suda online - "a massive 10th century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, covering the whole of Greek and Roman antiquity and also including Biblical and Christian material."

via The Guardian
28 Jun 2014
Words most known to only men or women.

via @gabyhinsliff
5 Jun 2014
Zeus' Affairs - An amazing diagram of Zeus' affairs, his off-spring, and our sources for the myths.

via Prof Rosivach
11 Mar 2014
"Doctor, doctor, I keep thinking that I'm a leading Swiss semiologist and pioneer of structural linguistics."

"How can you be Saussure?"

@NicholasPegg, March 11, 2014
27 Mar 2014
CAVEAT LECTOR

καπνός, ὁ: smoke; κάπρος, ὁ: boar, esp. wild boar; καρπός (A), ὁ: fruit; καρπός (B), ὁ: wrist

Henry George Liddell (@LiddellandScott).
8 Feb 2014
Great Language Game: How many can you identify?

via kottke.org/
25 Jan 2014 Google Tips and Tricks Every Student Should Know
You can Google better! Via lifehacker.
03 Jan 2014 Optimise revision.
Infographic on the best material to revise. via lifehacker.
21 Dec 2013 Lace
More Greek texts available online. via Tom Holland.
19 Dec 2013 Compare Translations.
Compare the original with several original translations. Includes Aeschylus, Homer and others. via languagehat.
06 Dec 2013 Colour wheel of languages
"This clever color wheel reveals how different languages explain the color spectrum, whether in three words or more than 60 words". via languagehat.
05 Nov 2013 Listen! Beowulf opening line misinterpreted for 200 years.
Independent article on George Walkden's research. via Twitter.
04 Nov 2013 European etymology maps
via @rhodri.
30 Oct 2013 Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World iPad app.
A snip at £10.49. via Tom Holland.
12 Oct 2013 What Do You Look for in Modern Translation?
New York Times on translation, with criticism of Powell's translation of the Iliad. via languagehat.
10 Oct 2013 Alphabet evolution
European alphabets from Phoenecian to the present day in one gif.

@mrianleslie.
09 Oct 2013 How was Hangul invented?
The Economist considers the 567th birthday of a writing system.
25 Sep 2013 Hobson-Jobson online
One of many digital dictionaries of South Asia
19 Jun 2013 The Homeric social network
"The structure of the social network among characters in Homer’s Odyssey indicates the story is at least partially based on actual events."
06 Jun 2013Pleiades
Pleiades gives scholars, students, and enthusiasts worldwide the ability to use, create, and share historical geographic information about the Greek and Roman World in digital form.
31 May 2013Waatar, water
Why Hittite must be Indo-European
27 Sep 2012Dirty translation of the Iliad
Homer’s poem set to bawdy verse
06 Sep 2012Lexicity
A great index of Ancient Language Resources online

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