Peter Gainsford

@kiwihellenist.bsky.social

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Kiwi Hellenist, Homerist, classicist, NZ. He/his/him/ia.

Diagrams showing the set-up of the axes as imagined by (1) Page 1973: 112, Fig. 6; (2) Page 1973: 101, Fig. 3; (3) Delebecque 1975: 59, Fig. 3; (4) Pocock 1961: 349, Fig. 1.
Score of Mendelssohn's Antigone, first page - piano reduction including both Greek and German lyrics
Score of Lassus' 'Tityre, tu patulae', part 2, measures 15-21
Still from the 1982 anime series 'Ulysses 31', showing the axes set up for Ulysses to shoot through
Still from the film 'Ulisse' (1954). Ulisse (Kirk Douglas) embraces Telemaco (Franco Interlenghi)
Still from the film Star Trek: First Contact (1996). Dr Zefram Cochrane says to Will Riker, 'And you people, you're all astronauts on some kind of star trek.'
Still from the film Dean Spanley (2008): Sam Neill as Dean Spanley
Still from the TV series L'Odissea (Italy, 1968): Irene Papas as Penelope, Bekim Fehmiu as Ulisse
Still from the film 'Naked' (1993): David Thewlis as Johnny Fletcher
Still from the film 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' (2000): Holly Hunter as Penny Wharvey-McGill and George Clooney as Ulysses Everett McGill
Text and critical apparatus for Luke 23.44 in Nestle-Aland 28
Still of a clip shown on BBC, 13 March 2026
Diagram of the main bridges in the Homeric hexameter, using modern musical notation
Still from the Odyssey, dir. Andrei Konchalovsky (1997)
Acting Captain W. T. Riker of the Enterprise, facing Locutus of Borg, in the midst of commanding Tactical to ffff-
Cover of 1950 edition of R. May, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer; source: abebooks.com
Image sources not recorded
P. Restad, Christmas in America (1995), pp. 50-51 (see Restad for sources)
Anon., 'A visit from St Nicholas', The Troy Sentinel, 23 Dec. 1823 (authorship later claimed by Clement Clarke Moore)
P. Restad, Christmas in America (1995), p. 50; see Restad for sources
Anon., The children’s friend. Number III (1821), p. 1 'Old Santeclaus with much delight'
Anon., The New York Almanac and Weather Book for the Year 1857, p. 128; J. Willetts, An Easy Grammar of Geography for the Use of Schools, 1815 edition, p. 51
W. Irving, A history of New York: 1809 edition vol. 1 p. 79; vol. 2 p. 252; 1812 edition vol. 2 pp. 106-107
Image source: wikimedia.org
P. Restad, Christmas in America (1995), p. 45; see Restad for sources
C. Tinman, De oorsprong en uitlegging van dagelyks gebruikte Nederduitsche spreekwoorden (1720), vol. 1 p. 162
J. Steen, Het Sint-Nicolaasfeest (1668)
Christkind illustration in H. Hoffmann, Struwwelpeter (1845); source: www.atlasobscura.com
Co-kathedrale basiliek van de Heilige Nicolaas, Amsterdam; source: wikimedia.org
Fresco at Somelá Monastery, Travzon, Turkey (18th cent.); source: lc.nl
Image of a chess game, with the board flipped to show black's point of view. The FEN for the position is: 1k2r3/1pp5/7b/1N1p1p1b/1N5p/8/PPPP2PP/R1BK4 w Q - 0 1
Jacob wrestling with the angel, by Gustave Doré. Caption: 'And the angel said unto him, "Stop hitting yourself." But he could not stop hitting himself, for the angel was hitting him with his own hands.
Image of YouTube comment, saying: '"damn doctor who used to be weird" (dugga doo theme plays) "oh right"'
Table of sunrise and sunset times for Wellington, New Zealand, for June 2025
Darth Vader meme. Text: 'If you only knew the power of the aorist participle.'
Ngrams showing the frequency of various terms for 'library of Alexandria' over the period 1900-2022 in English books
Still from the 2024 film 'Conclave'. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) addresses the conclave in Latin before the final vote.
'I don't believe you' meme from the film Anchorman
Cover of one of the Montgomery & Ward booklets with May's poem (source: Wikimedia.org)
Thomas Nast, cartoon in Harper's Weekly, 29 December 1866. Highlighted at top is Santa's postal address: 'Santa, Clausville, N.P.' Source: ThomasNast.com, https://thomasnast.com/cartoons/santa-claus-and-his-works/
Penne Restad, Christmas in America: A History, pp. 50-51
Penne Restad, Christmas in America: A History, p. 50
The Troy Sentinel, 23 December 1823, page 3. Source: https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=tts18231223-01.1.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN----------
'Old Santeclaus with much delight', New York, 1821. Source: Yale Digital Collections, https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2014510
Hudson River closings by ice for each year from 1789 to 1823. Source: https://earth2class.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Hudson-winter-ice-phenology.pdf
Washington Irving, A History of New York, 1812 edition, p. 107
Washington Irving, A History of New York, 1812 edition, p. 106
Penne Restad, Christmas in America: A History, p. 12
Jan Steen, Het Sint-Nicolaasfeest (1665-1668, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Nicholas slapping Arius, early 18th century fresco, Soumelá Monastery, Trabzon Province, Turkey
It so happened, while he [Benjamin Jowett] was engaged on his translation of Plato, that a guide discovered the professor’s study-window looked into the Broad Street. Coming with his menagerie under the window, the guide would begin: “This, ladies and gentlemen, is Balliol College, one of the very holdest in the huniversity, and famous for the herudition of its scholars. The ’ead of Balliol College is called the Master. The present Master of Balliol is the celebrated Professor Benjamin Jowett, Regius Professor of Greek. Those are Professor Jowett’s study-windows, and there” (here the ruffian would stoop down, take up a handful of gravel and throw it against the panes, bringing poor Jowett, livid with fury, to the window) “ladies and gentlemen, is Professor Benjamin Jowett himself.”
Le Chevalier, Description of the Plain of Troy (Edinburgh, 1791), opposite p. 1
Screenshot of the Wikipedia 'Cyclops' article. The single most essential feature of the Cyclops doesn't appear until the fifth line.