Truth and Narrative Burlington High School teacher Gregory Stringer talks about his love of language and history and how his travels, education, and life experiences led to his career as a world language instructor

I know the feeling, but perhaps my TedX talk on the subject (which was the culmination of several years of work in therapy) could be of help? www.ted.com/talks/gregor...

Tax Day 2026: The Average Taxpayer Paid $4,049 for War and Weapons - Institute for Policy Studies Tax Day 2026: The Average Taxpayer Paid $4,049 for War and Weapons

"The average taxpayer in 2025 paid: $4,049 for weapons and war, vs. $2,492 for Medicaid, which provided health insurance to 68.5 million Americans in 2025 — about one in five Americans."

a two panel meme panel 1 - geordi signalling 'no' with the text data centres and images of data centres Panel 2 - geordi signalling 'yes' with the text "data centaurs" and a crudely edited image of the character data from star trek pasted on top of a centaur

do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"

BOOK LAUNCH PARTY Celebrate the release of Dr. Jeremy Swist new book JULIAN AUGUSTUS Platonism, Myth, and the Refounding of Rome APRIL 15 5 PM HOOKED Bookstore 3142 E. Michigan Ave, Lansing 48912 Jeremy Swist is Assistant Professor at MSU Department of Romance and Classical Studies. His book, Julian Augustus, Platonism, Myth and the Refounding of Rome, gathers and synthesizes a rich and deep bibliography of scholarship on Julian from the past half centur Message

Anyone within striking distance of Lansing are welcome to attend this tomorrow. I'll read some selected passages from my book and do a Q&A. There's also free cake! 🎂

I’ve been at work for a while now on a long document that illustrates the disconnect between our school’s stated mission “to develop lifelong learners and engaged community members
who think creatively and who respect human differences in an increasingly diverse society” and its open embrace of “AI”

I know everyone and their (very manly, no doubt) brother has already dunked on this framing but the "girly" jobs that ostensibly need to be made palatable to men are care work. We associate care with women and with a lack of masculinity because implicitly women DO the caring and men are cared FOR

This is why I’m proud to have you represent my state!!

Deeply relieved that the bombs will stop—for now.

But threatening the destruction of an entire civilization has repercussions.

Republicans must call Congress back NOW, pass a war powers resolution, & stop this unauthorized war.

And Trump must be removed from office immediately.

Rouman Lecture Series - April 8, 2026 - CANE The John C. Rouman Classical Lecture Series will present Diet as Medicine in Greco-Roman Antiquity, by Dr. Claire Bubb.

The John C. Rouman Classical Lecture Series will present Diet as Medicine in Greco-Roman Antiquity, by Dr.
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Long shot that this will get seen in time, but in about an hour CripAntiquity is doing our semesterly meet up. This time, we're hoping to discuss disability/neurodivergence and the job market.

If you are free and are interested in joining, DM me for Zoom info

Ok, maybe sometimes it *isI about the stabbing! 😂 Thanks for the awesome memory!

People forget, it’s not about the stabbing, but rather the co-conspirators we make along the way. #IdesOfMarch

Ides of March - Death of Caesar in Theater of Pompey, Rome, April, 2019 YouTube video by Gregory Stringer

Here’s my obligatory #IdesOfMarch post- a dramatic reading by me (in #Latin!) of Suetonius, Vita Caesaris, 82 in a restaurant built into the bowels of the theater of Pompey in Rome (Da Pancrazio), just steps away from where the senate was meeting that fateful day!

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Trump Admin Drops the Olive Branch from U.S. Seal on New Dime Coins, Keeps the Arrows A new dime coin entering circulation in 2026 is sparking conversation after eagle-eyed Americans noticed a small but significant detail in its design

I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no.

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- The Pericles Group Foundation The Pericles Group is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, including the development and support of curricular materials for the learning of Latin and other languages, as wel...

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT

15 years ago, a group of us started The Pericles Group (periclesgroup.org) in order to formally work on our games & learning endeavors. It has been an amazingly fulfilling ride creating Operation LAPIS, successful Kickstarters (CARD-tamen, VERBA, Underlings of Underwing), (1/7)

A cake in the shape of a sheep with “baa” and imperfect written on it.

Call pops that look like busts of Roman emperors

A cake that appears as a broken Roman column

A cake in the form of a loaf of Pompeian street bread.

Check out these amazing cakes my Latin students made this year for #WorldLanguageWeek!

Sheep are the most “imperfect” of animals! Baaa! Roman emperor cake pops! A broken column! Pompeian bread!

Thank you! So sweet! Keep posting beautiful photos for us all! 😊

I hear they’ve got guts. (My much better second reply try)

Introduction to Handwriting in England c. 700-1700 This course will provide an introduction to manuscript-production in Britain and Ireland over the course of a millennium. It will explore questions of palaeography, diplomatic, and processes of tra…

Do you want to improve your knowledge of medieval manuscripts from England? Book now for this summer school course, in person, in London, 8-12 June. 👇☀️📚 #medievalsky please repost!

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Signed photo of Chase Masterson as Leeta from DS9 dedicated to me from a Star Trek convention circa 1996

Oh yay!! That’s amazing! Chase was at one of my very first conventions when I was 16 and starry eyed and she was so sweet to dorky lil me!

Hi! Ok, thank you! Depending on how my weekend shakes out, there may be an abstract from me! Quis scit?

Don’t know that I’ll ultimately have time to throw together an abstract (especially if deadline is tomorrow!) but seeing as the conference is in Boston I figured I’d at least ask for clarification

Hi! Two questions -first, deadline in the CFP doc says “Friday, March 1 at 5pm” but March first is Sunday? So is deadline tomorrow? Or Sunday? Second, is a specific medieval reception of Ovid, especially regarding the poet’s “dialogue” with Ovid w/r/t role of author & purpose of epic a valid topic?

Yes! I always tell students “sheep are the most imperfect of animals” 🐑 baaaaa
it also helps to teach them that the verb for “to bleat” is “balare”
“Ovis balabat, oves balabant” etc

I’m not trying to “catch them” as these are all on the study guide and we’ve worked with them in class, but rather refresh the vocab we’ve done that they’ll need to do the sight readings in the reading part of the test.

So here’s an example of a HS Latin V exam (offered as dual enrollment, so equivalent to a 5th semester Latin lit course.) This was for our intro to poetry unit covering some Catullus, Ovid, Martial, and Sulpicia. I do vocab as Latin to Latin synonyms, antonyms, short definitions, breaking compounds

Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson in Shanghai Noon

Shanghai Noon! Honestly a super smart and fun take on the genre.

(But also For a Few Dollars More, Unforgiven)

screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM: MSNOW - State of the union TCM East- Gaslight

Masterful Troll, TCM.

Happy to share with you any number of mine. They always focus on vocab, sight reading comprehension and interpretation rather than translation