Daniel Libatique

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Asst. Prof. of Classical Studies @ Fairfield University. Ovid, narratology, gender. He/him 🏳️‍🌈. Twitch and Instagram: TheDancingGrad. Oxford comma enthusiast.

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An infographic describing a charity stream for the American Heart Association at https://twitch.tv/thedancinggrad starting at 9am on Friday February 23
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screenshot of a Google Slide that indicates that today is a syllabus day, with a meme about the various versions of the definite article in various languages
Image from a Pompeiian fresco of a woman holding a writing tablet in one hand and a stylus pointing up to her mouth in the other; she wears a hairnet, curly hair, golden small loop earrings, and a cloak
screenshot of an email from Sharon James to me encouraging me to make bolder assertions and to have confidence in my voice in an article on Ovid in the Me Too era
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a screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation which asks it to translate a Latin passage from Ovid's Daphne and Apollo narrative into English
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handwritten notes in green about the mute + liquid rule in scanning latin poetry; notes include a list of mute letters, a list of liquid letters, and Latin phrases that illustrate the rule
Photo of the hardcover version of Emily Wilson's Iliad translation, with a cover with a red and gold background and a winged figure. Bookshelves with plants and knickknacks are in the photo background.
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