@AD_Classics

Greek theater stuff, mostly. Also found at https://xitter.cf/t.co/bV6dR6NM80

 Chapel Hill, NC
alduncan.web.unc.edu
Joined May 2010
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@simscircuitFeb 23
Did not expect a question that starts out 'Do you think before you speak?' to go so well. A+ question from Charlotte Harpur A++ response from Eileen Gu.
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Congratulations to my colleague Josh Ober for winning a Balzan prize — almost $1m — for his transformative work on Athenian democracy: Josiah Ober - Fondazione Internazionale Premio Balzan balzan.org/en/classics-athen…
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I am pleased to be able to share that NEH has funded a proposal to work on an edition of Aristotle's Poetics in Greek, Arabic and Latin.
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The Institute for the Arts and Humanities recently celebrated a major fellowship program fundraising milestone. 🎉 Thanks to the generosity of #UNC donors and friends, @iah_unc now has sustainable funding to support at least 18 faculty fellows each year college.unc.edu/2025/07/iah-…
The exterior of Hyde Hall on UNC's campus

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It’s the unhistorical opinions that annoy me.
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@RomeInTheEast29 Jul 2025
What’s a historical opinion that other people have that annoys you?
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Versūs memoriālēs. Mnemonic Lines. Dactylic lines which, when memorized, help remember lists of names, vocabulary, also grammatical features. Poetic meter is primarily a vehicle for memory! It wants to be your friend. 🎈🧸 📖 J. Siebelis: Tirocinium poeticum, 20th ed., 1916.
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I tried the experiment of asking AI for a website of the Catalog of Ships two years ago & it sort of worked, with a lot of little hiccups Now, I just gave Manus a screenshot of this tweet and prompt "do this project" and it did the research and I got a working website, one shot
Ethan Mollick
@emollick12 May 2023
Digital humanities is about to be wild. I pasted in the Catalog of Ships from the Iliad, and asked GPT with Code Interpreter to map the origins of the Greeks. With hiccups, it extracted solid information from the text, found modern locations & started building an interactive map
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Homer Spring 2025 is well underway! UNC Classicist Ashley Watkins led a great discussion at Epilogue Books on how Ovid reimagines Homer's Odyssey—giving Penelope a voice of her own and a pointed plea for Odysseus to return. More events + free books: tarheel.live/odyssey
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BREAKING: Jefferson Griffin wins at the NC Court of appeals in his effort to throw out 65,000 ballots In a 2-1 ruling, along party lines, the court said the ballots should be thrown out---unless the voters in question can prove their identity #ncpol wral.com/story/jefferson-gri…

Republican Jefferson Griffin wins NC appeals court challenge in case contesting 65K ballots

A Republican judge's effort to throw out 65,000 voters' ballots from the 2024 NC Supreme Court election is valid, his Republican colleagues on the state Court of Appeals ruled in a decision split...

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Some have asked how to donate -- we actually have donations that we have kept for an emergency (such as now). I believe that URLs get penalized but this shows the form -- you write in Perseus under "Other." We really appreciate even the thought of giving!
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DOGE terminated our current NEH grant with which we were developing Perseus6. Luckily, much of the work has been done. We should be able to get much, though not all, of the work that we had planned done. The backend is fairly solid and results should appear on the front end soon.
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As an academic, the relative silence of the humanities and many social sciences about the future of our world with AI (besides far too many saying "AI is bad" without nuance), is a shame. These are fields with a lot to say about the nature of being human, silent at a key moment.
François Fleuret
@francoisfleuret19 Feb 2025
Serious take: how comes there is such a dominant silence from the humanities on what to expect from / how to shape a society with AIs everywhere.
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More evidence that a well prompted LLM can help learning from a randomized controlled trial at Harvard: “here we show that students learn more than twice as much in less time with an AI tutor compared to an active learning classroom, while also being more engaged and motivated.”
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You can learn all about benchmarking AI from 570 BCE Croesus, the last king of Lydia, sent messagers to the major oracles of the ancient world to collect prophecies about a subject he knew (hold out test data). Only Delphi passed But why was Delphi so great? Data contamination!
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"We hope that such tools may help us to gain novel insight into the psychology of an understudied pool of humans—namely, the dead" Overview of work on HLLMs - language models trained on historical texts to simulate historical attitudes and perspectives. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
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NC legislature advances bill prioritizing private school #vouchers, funneling millions away from public schools. With no new raises for #teachers, this move deepens the divide between public #education and private interests. #NCed #ncpol newsobserver.com/news/politi…

NC legislature sends bill with vouchers, ICE to Cooper. Here’s why they’re doing it now

With the House passing the mini budget bill, it now goes to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.

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Al Duncan retweeted
IAH at UNC@iah_unc22 Aug 2024
Read our new story on Associate Professor Program Director Emily Baragwanath to learn more about her aspirations for the program. iah.unc.edu/baragwanath-app/
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The deadline for signing up for a cohort mentoring group is TOMORROW (8/16)!! wccclassics.org/mentorship

Mentorship Program — THE WOMEN'S CLASSICAL CAUCUS (WCC)

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Women's Classical Caucus--US@WCC_outreach1 Aug 2024
The WCC invites you to participate as a mentor and/or mentee for the 2024-25 academic year in the WCC Mentorship Program, which features both a year-long, cohort “growth and support” mentorship program and short-term, on-demand mentorship opportunities. wccclassics.org/mentorship
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I am BURSTING with pride. Peter did his PhD with me and is now a postdoc on my @durham_uni Classics research project @PublicAristotle. He will make an outstanding Member of Parliament (I am sure he will win) and help us deliver the change our country so badly needs.
Peter Swallow MP
@PDJSwallow24 May 2024
Incredibly proud to be standing as Labour's candidate in Bracknell, Crowthorne and Sandhurst After 14 years of chaos with the Conservatives, it's time for change On July 4th, we get Bracknell's future back 🌹
Peter Swallow, Labour candidate in Bracknell, Crowthorne and Sandhurst

ALT Peter Swallow, Labour candidate in Bracknell, Crowthorne and Sandhurst

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I am devastated by the news that David Konstan has passed away. David was an inspiring teacher, a prolific #researcher, an erudite intellectual, and a principled man. He was supportive of younger scholars, including myself. We will miss him greatly. #Classics #ClassicsTwitter
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