Armand D'Angour
@ArmandDAngour
Professor of Classics, Oxford. Cello lover. Larkin about. Turning life into Latin verse, one hexameter at a time. Podcast “It’s All Greek (& Latin!) to Me”.
Out today. If you want a break from the news…my specialist subject, ancient Greek music!
I’ve done a bit of digging on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation situation. I still don’t like the plan, and still think continued operations in Gaza are doing more harm than good. Still, that’s just my opinion. Let’s try and unpack the nonsense and get to something that looks…
There was something fishy about the way those perfect scales went up and down the keyboard. It turned out to be the piano tuna.
Why do people say “tuna fish”, but not “chicken bird”??
The werewolf story from Petronius still gives people goosebumps…. open.substack.com/pub/armanddang…
Ne temere vadas, fato prudentia maior. #hexameter Do not proceed rashly, prudence is greater than fate.
Fato prudentia maior — “Prudence is greater than fate.”
I hate - and I love. How is that done? ('How' is what 'quare' meant in Catullus's time). psyche.co/ideas/loves-co…
“I hate and I love. Why I do this, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it happening and I am tortured.” — Catullus LXXXV
Fûck your fake humanity when you didn’t march against Genocide of 500K Yezidis by lSlS, for 7K Yezidi kidnapped women, for 2690 missing Yezidis. for 10K Yezidis being killed for refusing to convert lsIam! Picture of a Yezidi girl waiting for her kidnapped family after 11 years!!
And how many Jews in the world? 16 million. Heavily outnumbered indeed.
2 Billion Muslims ☺️.
Niche thought, but some might like to expand on it: How could you learn what metre is all about? First see the Substack, then the website - Hearing the beat of the verse is vital. —alcaic stanza
Do you know how Alcaic verse metre goes? Niche thought, but some might like to expand on it. open.substack.com/pub/armanddang…
Do you know how Alcaic verse metre goes? Niche thought, but some might like to expand on it. open.substack.com/pub/armanddang…
Less than 1% of the population is Active Duty Military, less than 6% of the US population has ever served in our military, and only a percentage of those that have served have ever seen war. That means that roughly over 95% of the American population has no idea what war…
It isn't Petrarch. @QuoteResearch writes: Preliminary analysis. A version of the statement appeared in 1845. It seems that Henry T. Tuckerman was presenting his analysis of Petrarch. Tuckerman was not presenting a direct quotation. Periodical: American Whig Review Article…
Timeless inspiration from Petrarch (b otd 1304!): "Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good."
non debet sapiens animum demittere maestum #hexameter A wise person should not let his mind be dejected
Dedecet philosophum abjicere animum — “It dishonors a philosopher to be disheartened” (Cicero).
SLAUGHTER IN SYRIA: Evangelical pastor and his family massacred in Syria — more than 1,000 Druze and Christians also murdered — where is the global outcry? Please pray for Syria. @all_arab_news @all_israel_news allarab.news/slaughter-in-s…
“An apple am I, he loves you too who tosses me. Accept, Xanthippe; let us be joined in harmony.” #elegiaccouplet
Malum sum: qui me iactat te diligit ultro; Xantippe, annuito: fatum habeamus idem.
The Druze have lost at least 2,000 civilians, most of them senior people and children killed inside their own houses by Jihadi Islamists. Not a single word from the "guardians of ethics and humanity:" Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, AOC, Bernie, Mamadani, ADC, CAIR, NYT, NPR...
Fraenkel sent these Greek verses to Housman along with his lecture, as thanks to the person who first gave him a foothold as a refugee to England. "Go on that path, my writings. 'But father, we greatly fear approaching the house of Housman. He is a great poet and the greatest of…
"Greek culture may be described as the superlative of creative power realized in the works of man. Its originality was so vigorous that a more or less close Hellenization has been the inevitable fate of every people who has come into contact with the Greeks." Fraenkel's first…