Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
1/30: images
Every day I start the Greek class with a "thing of the day." It might be a quotation from an ancient authors, an interesting word in English derived from Greek, or a picture. Today's thing was a 17th century engraving showing "America" giving Poseidon a box of chocolate to take back to Europe (here). And one of the last things I did before heading home for the weekend was find two images that seem to illustrate the moment in the Iliad when Thetis asks her son, "Child, why do you cry?" Teknon, ti klaieis in Greek--possibly my favorite 3 words in all of ancient Greek literature. (images here and here).
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