A very impressive list! Time for some restorative lounging.

Dalhousie Street, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie District… who was George Ramsay, the Earl of Dalhousie, and why did he matter to us here in Ottawa?
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It’s just an endless chain of finding someone else to sneer at 😆

I would argue that the only aspect of the Greeks which the Romans respected/liked/admired was their literature, specifically their poetry (& also their art, I suppose). Otherwise yes, everyone not Roman was sub par by definition!

Yes, that’s the point I made in the episode—insofar as Homer is preferred to or more influential than Virgil now, it’s a very recent phenomenon!

And I’ve met my share of Hellenists in the actual field of Classical who do the same, to be fair! At least in jest (but I don’t think it’s always completely a joke).

I would say that amid the current interest in Greek myth and reception thereof, there is a strand of pop culture understanding of the ancient world that dismisses the Romans as second-rate copyists of Greek literature, and boring to boot.

These days, we tend to think of Virgil and his Aeneid as second rate and certainly less popular to Homer and the Iliad and Odyssey. But has that *always* been the case?

Listen to the full episode on Virgil's Aeneid with @avensarah.bsky.social, out now!

Hello Sunday Pixers hope you having nice day. The theme for tomorrow will be 'favourites'
We will use tag #SundayPixFavourite

Please interpret any way you wish,
We look forward to seeing your pictures.

Add alt text if you can, for peoples that dont see
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Unnerving!

😬 Be safe!

Aeneas - inconsistent characterisation of a bland man, or an interesting development from easterner into the ultimate Roman progenitor?

Listen to the full episode on Virgil's Aeneid with @avensarah.bsky.social, out now...

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Screenshot of weather app for Saturday and Sunday. Sat afternoon 23° and raining, overnight 4° rainy, Sunday morning 2° with mixed snow and rain, afternoon 7°, overnight -3°.

When we say that it’s “wrong coat season” in Ottawa right now, this is what we mean. How on earth are we supposed to dress for this weather? 😆

Grow/Green #Etymology YouTube video by Alliterative

The surprisingly connected origins of "grow" and "green".

#etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #grow #green #grass #spring

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Our Aeneid primer episode is now live, and fantastic! thanks to our special guest @avensarah.bsky.social.

It is the perfect companion episode to our Augustus double bill with @mikebeer.bsky.social

Links below⏬️

I was 100% thinking that while I listened to the episodes on Augustus!

Virgil's Aeneid: Creation, Content, Context - Ancient History 101 with Aven McMaster

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This week on the show: Aven McMaster chats with us about the creation, content and context of Virgil's Aeneid!

We learn that the jokes about it being a cheap, Roman knock-off of Homer are way off the mark - and if you haven't thought about reading the Aeneid yet, this episode might inspire you

And referred to in a similar way as “Section 28” in England, for instance—everyone knows the general meaning Eve if they don’t know the specifics.

That seems to be the general sense. It’s an American term and we don’t use it, so I don’t know the details; but it seems like “Title” covers broad areas of legislation that underpin many specific laws/regulations.

Probably a good idea to find another term even outside of an Oceania context (where “mob” doesn’t have that sense) since to most North Americans “mob rule” probably means “rule by the mafia” first. I like “rule by the rabble”, it gets at the judgement implied by the term.

Another one you’ll see referenced quite a lot is Title 9 (technically IX) “a 1972 federal civil rights law in the United States that prohibits sex-based discrimination in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”

title (legislation)

“In reference to a code (such as the United States Code), the word title refers to the broad subject heading under which a law is classified.” www.law.cornell.edu/wex/title_le...

Everyone seems to be trying to restrict access to the Strait of Hormuz, and etymologically that makes sense. First of all strait and straight are not at all related—a strait is not called that because you go straight through it. Straight meaning “not bent or curved” comes from Old English streht, the past participle of streccan “to stretch” (possibly from the Proto-Indo-European root *strenk- “tight, narrow”). Strait meaning “narrow” as an adjective and “a narrow passage” as a noun came into English in the 14th c. from Anglo-Norman French estreit or estrait, from Old French estroit, ultimately from Latin strictus, the past participle of stringere “to draw tight, bind tight, compress, press together” (traceable back to the Proto-Indo-European root *streig- “to stroke, rub, press”). Latin stringere when combined with the prefix re- “back” produced restringere “to bind back, bind fast, tighten” and the past participle restrictus led to English restrict in the 1530s.

The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is STRAIT/RESTRICT #wotd #strait #restrict #straight #StraitOfHormuz #Hormuz #IranWar‌

Wonderful! Many congratulations to the happy couple, and what a beautiful photo 😍

😆 That has forever changed the implications of "going to the cottage", hasn't it?! But since everyone in Ottawa pretty much has a cottage or visits them fairly often, I don't think it actually will stop us from using the phrase.

A lake and curving wooded shore, with perfectly still water, and light mist rising off the lake into a bright blue sky

A lake with a wooded shore in the other side, with perfectly still water, and light mist rising off the lake into a bright blue sky

#SundayPixCalm The lake at our cottage, on a quiet morning before the rising sun has burnt off all the mist, is one of the most peaceful, calming places I’ve ever been.

Reposting this cuz it's important, if you live in Canada and use roads *in whatever capacity* (driver, cyclist, pedestrian, public transit) our government needs to hear from you

The alphabet and numerals 0-9 in the Artemis mission typeface

Just so you know what kind of dork I am: I was looking at the Artemis II mission stuff and said to @kaylahornbrook.bsky.social, “The cutaway in those letters in the bottom left corner definitely means something super specific…”

A screen capture from the Oxford English Dictionary of the entry for "splashdown."

Splashdown. 1961. "The alighting of a spacecraft on the sea." (OED) Poetry.