Dr. Jeremy Swist

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Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him “Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519

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Old Faithful geyser erupting at Yellowstone National Park
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In Event Horizon (1997), Sam Neill reportedly asked for the Union Jack on his Australian flag patch to be replaced with an Aboriginal flag, reflecting how he personally imagined Australia might look by the year 2047.
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THE WAY TO THE ONE. THEURGY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF IAMBLICHUS by Andrea Lemnaru-Espuna Forthcoming with Cambridge University Press CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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The Hardest Hit College Majors Between December 2019 and April 2026, hiring of new college graduates for entry-level jobs related to their majors has declined for all 15 of the most common majors on Linkedin. Major % Decline % Of Grads on LinkedIn Engineering -25% 7.7% • Computer & Information Sciences -24% 3.7% Interdisciplinary Studies -24% 6.4% Business & Marketing -23% 24.3% Communication & Journalism -23% 4.0% Physical Sciences -23% 1.5% Visual & Performing Arts -23% 5.2% Social Sciences -22% 6.4% Homeland Security & Law Enforcement -22% 2.2% English -21% 1.4% Biological Sciences -19% 5.8% Parks, Recreation & Fitness -19% 2.4% Psychology -18% 6.1% Health Professions -16% 9% Education -16% 2.1% Source: Linkedin Forbes
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Jeremy Swist is in Rome. Jun 21, 2023 • Q TRANSPHOBES TO THE LIONS
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Brad Boswell The Narrative Conflict of Traditions in the Late Antique World: Cyril versus Julian Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025 Pp. xv + 316. $130.00. Many have experienced how debates over politics, religion, science, etc. are often conducted in comment sections under news articles and op-eds: people on either "side" futilely assert their point of view through various logical, ethical, and pathetic appeals, only to be met with scorn and derision. To one camp, a particular figure is a savior, to the other, a devil. It is as if they live in totally different worlds, governed by different modes of reasoning and different systems of authority that are mutually incommensurable with those on the other side of the issue, such that no agreement or resolution is possible. We are used to this phenomenon today; but to what extent does something like it appear in other historical periods of intense political and religious debate, such as the fourth- and fifth-century Roman Empire? Scholarship has oscillated in framing this period in terms of conflict or cooperation between pagans and Christians, as well as the shared cultural inheritance that unites them despite their many theological quarrels. Given his Christian upbringing, Hellenic paideia, and conversion to pagan Neoplatonism, all expressed through his voluminous writings, the emperor Julian has been of perennial interest in this conversation. Recently, there have been efforts to fit Julian into religious and intellectual paradigms that were more universal in late antiquity, painting him as a bird of a feather with the likes of Constantine, Themistius, or Gregory of Nazianzus. But was he fundamentally so alike with all of these Christian, and even pagan figures with whom he competed in asserting his view of the divine, the interpretation and authority of texts, and the good life?
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Gabriel Danzig 13:05 to CLASSICISTS v • •• Why have classical literature and philosophy lost so much of the appeal they once had in western society? In this series on oikophobia we address this issue not as a matter of poor publicity, but rather as a symptom of general trends in western society. In the footsteps of scholars like Sir Roger Scruton and Eric Vogelin, this series examines the dynamics of Western self-critique and self-alienation from a range of disciplinary perspectives -historical, philosophical, cultural, religious and political. Without presuming a single diagnosis or solution, these discussions aim to clarify the forces that have reshaped our intellectual landscape and to reflect on what is at stake when a culture grows estranged from its own foundations.
We Pretend It's Ancient Internet "Time is running out galilean" Map of Europe covered by several pagan symbols including swastikas and the caption "the gods are not forgotten"
YOU CROSSED THE FUCKING LINE. YOU SHOT JULIAN.
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NATIONAL SOCIALIST BLACK METAL AND THE USURPATION OF GREECE AND ROME Jeremy Swist Hideous race! You’ve awoken the death machine which no one will stop From the times of ancient Rome, through the chimneys of death, Until nowadays … When on the ashes of the temple of Yahweh The ancient pagan empires will glitter with their power again! Sunwheel, ‘Completing the Four Sides of the Flaming Sickle’ It was said that a 1906 production of Richard Wagner’s opera Rienzi – whose namesake leads a populist revolt against the patricians of medieval Rome to become the ‘last’ tribune of the plebs – first kindled the political aspirations of a young Adolf Hitler.1 While this story is likely apocryphal,2 it nevertheless speaks to the power of music to inspire, promote and sustain radical movements. Ever since the fall of the Third Reich, white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations across Europe, North America and Oceania have increasingly recognized and harnessed this power, in the form of rock and punk music, to radicalize and recruit young, socially disillusioned white men, even weaponizing gangs of skinheads into paramilitary forces.3 Through the support of such organizations, white power rock bands such as Skrewdriver from England and RaHoWa (short for ‘Racial Holy War’) from Canada have sold thousands of records. The latter’s 1995 song ‘Might Is Right’ sets to music the 1896 poem ‘The Logic of To-Day’ by the apostle of social Darwinism, Ragnar Redbeard, which begins: ‘Might was right when Caesar bled upon the stones of Rome’, and includes the line: ‘And it was right when Titus burnt their Temple roofed with gold.’4 By the last decade of the twentieth century, right-wing extremism began its (perhaps inevitable) colonization of another popular music genre – one that features the most prolific reception of Mediterranean antiquity since the operas of Monteverdi, Handel and Strauss – heavy metal. Like Wagner’s Rienzi, metal musicians are frequently empowered by the exempla of ancient
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157. Julian Augustus and the dream of a Platonic Roman empire, with Jeremy Swist
Mixing Wisdom with Wine: A Greek Symposium in Miniature The most celebrated type of gathering in the ancient world was the symposium, where aristocratic men gathered to drink and enjoy intellectual conversation and lively entertainment. Attendees reclined on couches that could accommodate one or two men. They were entertained by performers and tended to by servants who filled their wine cups. (You can see a full-size Roman banquet couch made of wood and bronze in the Roman Domestic Life gallery on this floor.) In the Classical world, a drinking party would occur in a specific type of room: the Roman triclinium (a place for three kline, or couches) or the Greek andron, where three to seven couches were arranged around the walls of a room, such as seen in the miniature room here. To create this andron, the contemporary artist Henry Kupjack pieced together historically known elements to evoke an architectural space of the past. The artist based the arrangement of the room-a central mosaic with braziers (used for heating), lamps, furniture, and a variety of vessels-on Greek and Roman artifacts and examples depicted on ancient vases. Compare the miniature vessels in the room with the actual ancient terracotta vessels displayed nearby. Henry Kupjack specializes in the construction of mixed media miniature rooms. Other examples of his work are owned by the Baltimore Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Miniature Room with Greek Vases Henry Kupjack (American), 2016 Wood, mixed media Anonymous loan, IL.2016.1S.5
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Steve Tuck • 1m I often think that if many of the modern Americans who revere Ancient Greece and Rome saw an Ancient Greek or Roman they would immediately call ICE.
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Netflix forced to remove Devil May Cry merch after misspelling Vergil as 'Virgil' on official shirt.
Unknown Artist, Antioch (modern-day Hatay Province, Turkey) Figural Mosaic Fragment from "The House of Menander", 2nd century CE Stone tesserae This mosaic comes from a private residence in Daphne, a suburb of Antioch. Above the female figure is a partial inscription in Greek, which reads: ...OCOY PIA." Best interpreted as [AI] OCKOYPIA (Dioscuri), which may refer to a popular annual Roman festival of the same name. The festival celebrated the namesake divine Dioscuri twins, who were warriors and athletes. The woman depicted here was likely a celebrant. Museum Purchase 1964.7.5
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r/shittymoviedetails • 37m ago Raguleader In "The Odyssey" (2026), Odysseus speaks with a Boston accent, despite being from Ithaca, which is in New York.
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What enduring elements of early Roman culture were influen a. language and literature b. military equipment and tactics political and religious institutions and iconography all of the above 12. Why was the emperor Julian called "the Apostate"? a. He was raised pagan, but then converted to Christianity. He was raised Christian, but then converted to paganism c. He violated the pax deorum. d. He was born without a prostate. 13. The senate was originally created during which period of Rom the Roman monarchy the Roman Republic c. the Roman Empire d. the Byzantine Empire
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NO ALCOHOL PERMITTED INSIDE THE LIBRARY. MSU ORDINANCE 21.02-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: The consumption and possession of alcoholic beverages is prohibfted (o) in classrooms, lecture halls, laboratories, the libraries, and the chapel, and AUTOMATIC CAUTION
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