Timothy M Teeter
@timothymteeter.bsky.social
Classicist, historian, papyrologist, Christian, Democrat, concerned citizen, not necessarily in that order
My brother and I watched The Fantastic Four, which was better than I expected.
November 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM
My brother and I watched The Fantastic Four, which was better than I expected.
Maybe more something along this line:
October 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Maybe more something along this line:
No, Greek. It must be a fraternity.
September 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
No, Greek. It must be a fraternity.
And there's always the Caesar Kitchen Knife Block:
August 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
And there's always the Caesar Kitchen Knife Block:
The Romisch-Germanisch in Cologne is closed for repairs but some items are on display elsewhere & include the amazing glass cup from the 4th c. crowned with a Greek text “drink, live beautifully (kallos) forever.” (Not my translation; sorry, I haven’t figured out how to type Greek on my phone yet)
July 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Romisch-Germanisch in Cologne is closed for repairs but some items are on display elsewhere & include the amazing glass cup from the 4th c. crowned with a Greek text “drink, live beautifully (kallos) forever.” (Not my translation; sorry, I haven’t figured out how to type Greek on my phone yet)
My wife planted a fig tree, inspired by Micah 4:4. It's gotten enormous. Figs must be picked ripe and birds have always gotten them. Well, NOT THIS YEAR! I'm using netting & they are ripening. Looking forward to a full basket (the origin of fiscal: fig in Latin is ficus and fiscus a basket of figs).
July 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
My wife planted a fig tree, inspired by Micah 4:4. It's gotten enormous. Figs must be picked ripe and birds have always gotten them. Well, NOT THIS YEAR! I'm using netting & they are ripening. Looking forward to a full basket (the origin of fiscal: fig in Latin is ficus and fiscus a basket of figs).
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
June 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
It's a recent fashion. I doubt, pace Yglesias, that it was state directed.
And by the way, it's a good aperitivo. I make them at home.
And by the way, it's a good aperitivo. I make them at home.
June 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It's a recent fashion. I doubt, pace Yglesias, that it was state directed.
And by the way, it's a good aperitivo. I make them at home.
And by the way, it's a good aperitivo. I make them at home.
Dragonfly on a Saturday morning.
May 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Dragonfly on a Saturday morning.
Highet, however, must not have been the first owner since written on the flyleaf is a name, Katrina Van Hook, with a location, Morrow House. Curious, I searched online. Morrow House is a dormitory at Smith College and Katrina Van Hook (later Katrina V. H. Taylor), once a young Smith student.
May 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Highet, however, must not have been the first owner since written on the flyleaf is a name, Katrina Van Hook, with a location, Morrow House. Curious, I searched online. Morrow House is a dormitory at Smith College and Katrina Van Hook (later Katrina V. H. Taylor), once a young Smith student.
2 - After Gilbert Highet died, his son donated his books to Columbia and so several of Highet's books came into my possession and I still have some. One that I glanced at recently was a school text of Xenophon's Anabasis. Here it is with Highet's bookplate.
May 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
2 - After Gilbert Highet died, his son donated his books to Columbia and so several of Highet's books came into my possession and I still have some. One that I glanced at recently was a school text of Xenophon's Anabasis. Here it is with Highet's bookplate.
1 - A curious note for classicists: short thread. A long time ago, in my graduate days at Columbia, I had a job in Butler library managing the sell-off of books that included rejected donations. Thanks to this I acquired quite a number of volumes for myself since I had first choice, including this:
May 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
1 - A curious note for classicists: short thread. A long time ago, in my graduate days at Columbia, I had a job in Butler library managing the sell-off of books that included rejected donations. Thanks to this I acquired quite a number of volumes for myself since I had first choice, including this:
For Easter weekend: in 1999, excavations beneath the Gothic/Renaissance Duomo in Siena revealed frescoes of the life of Christ from the 13th c. lost for centuries. A few recent photos:
April 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
For Easter weekend: in 1999, excavations beneath the Gothic/Renaissance Duomo in Siena revealed frescoes of the life of Christ from the 13th c. lost for centuries. A few recent photos:
And meantime, there is now a whole museum on the Celian dedicated to the Severan marble plan:
April 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
And meantime, there is now a whole museum on the Celian dedicated to the Severan marble plan:
Attic kylix c. 500 BC in the archaeological museum in Florence that caught my eye the other day when I was guiding some students.
April 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Attic kylix c. 500 BC in the archaeological museum in Florence that caught my eye the other day when I was guiding some students.
Me and Herculanean cat a few weeks ago.
March 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Me and Herculanean cat a few weeks ago.
So for no particular reason (except maybe I'm leaving for Italy in a week and was thinking about this), from 10 meters underground beneath the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Positano on the bay of Naples: a Roman villa.
January 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
So for no particular reason (except maybe I'm leaving for Italy in a week and was thinking about this), from 10 meters underground beneath the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Positano on the bay of Naples: a Roman villa.
From eight years ago in Barcelona.
January 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
From eight years ago in Barcelona.