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We spoke with Dr. Anne Curzan about her new book, āSays Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares about Wordsā. We talk about language change, inner grammandos, the benefits of learning the rules of texting from oneās students, and of course, surprising connections!
Also, please check out the Defeat Depression fundraising event, and the Sudbury Walk/Run on May 25.
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Buried deep under volcanic ash lie hundreds of burnt scrolls containing texts from the first century. A new project is driving the work to try to read these chunks of carbon, to uncover new works and open new doors into the past. We spoke to one of the leaders of this project, Dr. Stephen Parsons, about the Vesuvius Challenge, the technical aspects of āvirtual unrollingā, the possibilities of new classical texts, the development of new ways of doing scholarship, and more.
Also, please check out the Defeat Depression fundraising event, and the Sudbury Walk/Run on May 25.
The Vesuvius Challenge
Kaitlyn Hillās books
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We talked to Dr. Karen Carr about the global history of swimming ā in myth, folktale, and history. Who swam, who didnāt, and how do the stories different cultures told reflect these patterns? We also talked a bit about Dr. Carrās next book, all about silver, women, and textiles.
Dr. Carrās academic website
Dr. Carrās history website and blog, Quatr.us
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We discuss the language and history of the ecological sciences, all the way back to the ancient Greeks, and the development of the food chain and food web models of ecological systems. And apologies for the unscheduled hiatus!
Golden Chain Cocktail
Food Web video
Cuckold video and podcast
Frank N. Egerton. āA History of the Ecological Sciences: Early Greek Originsā, Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 82.1 (2001): 93-97
āāā, āA History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 2: Aristotle and Theophrastosā, BESA 82.2 (2001): 149-152
āāā, āA History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 3: Hellenistic Natural Historyā, BESA 82.3 (2001): 201-205
āāā, āA History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 4: Roman Natural Historyā, BESA 82.4 (2001): 243-246
āāā, āA History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 5: Byzantine Natural Historyā, BESA 83.1 (2002): 89-94
āāā, āA History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 6: Arabic Language ScienceāOrigins and Zoological Writingsā, BESA 83.2 (2002): 142-146
āāā, āA History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 7: Arabic Language ScienceāBotany, Geography, and Declineā, BESA 83.4 (2002): 261-266
āāā, āA History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 8: Frederick II of Hohenstaufen: Amateur Avian Ecologist and Behavioristā, BESA 84.1 (2003): 40-44
āāā, āA History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 9: Albertus Magnus: a Scholastic Naturalistā, BESA 84.2 (2003): 87-91
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We talk to Melanie Racette-Campbell about her new book, āThe Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustusā, and discuss why Roman elite men were particularly vulnerable to a societal transformation that changed their role in the state. What did it mean to be a good man in ancient Rome, and how and why did that change?
Melanieās book is available here
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The word āchauvinismā is an unlikely eponym, but it turns out that the story behind it has all sorts of interesting connections. And our discussion of those connections also leads us into the long history of misogyny in the western world, from Eve and Pandora to the Virgin Mary, courtly love, and Victorian womanhood.
Cocktail: Pandoraās Jar, from Nectar of the Gods
āBy Jingoā song
Hesiodās Works and Days
Hesiodās Theogony
Semonides 7
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We look at the history of Englishās conceptualization of time, and update Markās research on spatiotemporal metaphor. Also, words for arrows, the surprising origin of ātoxicā, and a bit of Latin poetry!
Blue Arrow cocktail
Bow and Arrow cocktail
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We spoke to Dr. Valerie Fridland about her new book, āLike, Literally, Dude!ā and talked about the fascinating role that many āerrorsā in English speech actually play in communication. We discuss the never-ending changes that English has gone through, the surprisingly sophisticated rules behind our use of āumā and āuhā, and much more.
Dr. Valerie Fridlandās website
Like, Literally, Dude!
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Itās Part 2 of our mega-episode on spelling! This time, we get into some of the notorious mismatches between English spelling and modern English pronunciation. Explaining them takes us all the way back to Phoenician ā several times ā but maybe, just maybe, some bits of this odd language will make more sense to you when weāre done!
The XYZ Cocktail
Our video on āSpellingā
Christopher Upward & George Davidson, The History of English Spelling (2001)
David Sacks, Letter Perfect (2003)
Kevin Stroud, The History of the Alphabet (audiobook)
NativLang āThothās Pill - an Animated History of Writingā
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Weāre wading into the messy world of English spelling in this episode ā the first of two, since we couldnāt fit all of the āquirksā of the language into one episode. The history of orthography in English is all tangled up with the history of the alphabet, so in this part we trace some of the twists and turns that resulted in our modern script.
The ABC Cocktail
Our video on āSpellingā
Christopher Upward & George Davidson, The History of English Spelling (2001)
David Sacks, Letter Perfect (2003)
Kevin Stroud, The History of the Alphabet (audiobook)
NativLang āThothās Pill - an Animated History of Writingā
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In this bonus episode, we answer questions from viewers and listeners during a livestream on our YouTube channel, as part of #LingFest23.
Apologies for the sound quality, which isnāt great.
Also, sorry that we didnāt manage a regular episode in February, but weāll definitely have one in March.
LingComm23
LingFest
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Just a reminder that weāll be doing a Q&A livestream on our YouTube channel as part of LingFest in connection to the LingComm23 Conference on Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 1:00pm Eastern.
Please leave us your questions on this website, email us, or post on social media, or just show up on the day at the livestream.
The livestream will be here, just click on Sunday afternoon to join in!
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In this episode we talk to the authors of two new books on Ovidās Metamorphoses, the Latin epic poem he wrote in 8 CE. Stephanie McCarter has published a new translation of the poem, and Gareth Williams has written a short interpretive introductory work on the epic to go with the Columbia Core Curriculum. We talked with both of them about the way Ovid fits into contemporary society, what considerations there are when teaching this epic, and the joys and difficulties of engaging with Ovidās poetic brilliance.
Content note for sexual violence and brief description of trauma.
LingComm23
LingFest
Stephanie McCarterās website
Ovidās Metamorphoses
Gareth Williams faculty page
On Ovidās Metamorphoses
āLandscape Near Rome during Stormā by Simon Denis
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As we get ready to mark the new year, it seems a good time to talk about a classic cocktail made with sparkling wine: the Bellini. Our conversation takes us to Italy, in the 20th century, the 15th century, and the 1st century BCE, to Renaissance art and the Roman practice of patronage, and more. Happy New Year!
āRewriting the history of art patronageā, by Jaynie Anderson. Renaissance Studies. Vol. 10, No. 2, Women Patrons of Renaissance Art, 1300ā1600 (JUNE 1996), pp. 129-138.
āIsabella d'Este and Giovanni Bellini's 'Presepio'ā, by J. M. Fletcher. The Burlington Magazine. Vol. 113, No. 825, Venetian Painting (Dec., 1971), pp. 703-713.
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We welcome back Paul Anthony Jones, of Haggard Hawks fame, to ell us about his new book āWhy Is This a Question?ā. We talk about how his experience of social media has changed since we last interviewed him in 2016, what it was like researching a book covering such wide-ranging topics, the state of the publishing industry, and more.
Haggard Hawks
Our previous interview with Paul (episode 21)
Citogenesis (the Wikipedia citation problem) coined in xkcd comic
Ridley, R. T. āTo Be Taken with a Pinch of Salt: The Destruction of Carthage.ā Classical Philology, vol. 81, no. 2, 1986, pp. 140ā46.
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We talk about the origins of music, its connection (both etymological and scientific) with the mind, how language is used to describe and teach music, the Muses, and the Museum of Alexandria. Also featuring brief cameos from music YouTuber 12Tone.
Monkās Muse Cocktail
12Toneās video āWhy Do Notes Have Names?ā
Ghost Notes Podcast
āFutureā video
Murdoch Mysteries episode āThe Dominion of New South Mimicoā
Language: The Cultural Tool by Daniel Everett
Erskine, Andrew. āCulture and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Museum and Library of Alexandria.ā Greece & Rome, vol. 42, no. 1, 1995, pp. 38ā48. JSTOR.
Hardie, Alex. āEtymologising the Muse.ā Materiali e Discussioni per lāanalisi Dei Testi Classici, no. 62, 2009, pp. 9ā57. JSTOR.
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We spoke with Tim Brooks of the Endangered Alphabets project about the cultural importance of scripts, the pressures on marginalized and isolated scripts, his beautiful wood carvings, and the various initiatives he and his group have been working on to support script revitalization and creation around the world.
Website: Endangered Alphabets
Inhabit Media
Twitter: @endangeredalpha
Instagram: @endangeredalphas
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Commemorating the 6th anniversary of the death of Markās father, and the 75th anniversary of Indian independence, this episode connects widows and partition, and while also touching on the legacy of Alexander the Great, the origins of badminton and tennis, and obscure typesetting vocabulary.
Merry Widow Cocktail
Black Widow Cocktail
Olson, Kelly. āFringed Clothing in Roman Iconography and Written Sources.ā Textiles in Ancient Mediterranean Iconography, edited by SUSANNA HARRIS et al., Oxbow Books, 2022, pp. 149ā60.
Olson, Kelly. "Insignia Lugentium: Female Mourning Garments in Roman Antiquity". American Journal of Ancient History (New Series 3-4, 2004-2005 [2007]): 3-4, 2004, pp. 89-130.
Hagerman, Christopher A. āIn the Footsteps of the 'Macedonian Conqueror": Alexander the Great and British India.ā International Journal of the Classical Tradition, vol. 16, no. 3/4, 2009, pp. 344ā92.
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We have a very fun conversation with Dr. Natalie Swain about her work on classical reception and the polar regions ā the Arctic and Antarctic ā science fiction, and comics. And Natalie and Mark find lots of overlaps and connections between their interests!
āBetween the Sheets: Reading the Coverlet as Comics in Catullus 64.ā Image [&] Narrative 22.2 (2021)
Scott McCloudās Understanding Comics
@mazonianfeline
#ClassicsTwitterComics
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Weāre talking all about the future in this episode ā and if we even have one (in English). This is a topic near and dear to Markās heart, and in part the subject of his dissertation! We get into the nitty gritty of grammatical tense, ways of thinking about the future, and a mystery cocktail.
Our video on the Future
Whisky Exchange article about Futurist cocktails
Lavery, Gerard B. āHoc Aeui Quodcumquest : Lucretius and Time.ā Latomus, vol. 46, no. 4, 1987, pp. 720ā29. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41534650
Berns, Gisela. āTime and Nature in Lucretiusā āDe Rerum Natura.āā Hermes, vol. 104, no. 4, 1976, pp. 477ā92. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4475983
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