today's saying is the mythical cornucopia:
Τὸ τῆς Ἀμαλθείας κέρας.
The horn of Amaltheia.
Amaltheia was the foster-mother of the baby Zeus, and her 'horn of plenty' produced food and drink.
Details + more #GreekProverbs here:
greekreaders.blogspot.com/2024/04/13-goa…

Zeus and his nanny-goat:

wrapping up Week 2 of the #GreekProverbs experiment, I made another set of Quia activities, including a new 'Noun Review' set that is for practicing both the English definition AND also the genitive of nouns/adjectives... links and details:
greekreaders.blogspot.com/2024/04/week-2…
flashcard deck:

pinging Hector Manuel Tapia III

from today's #GreekProverbs , a saying about Sophia, Wisdom:
Σοφία γάρ ἐστι καὶ μαθεῖν ὃ μὴ νοεῖς.
Wisdom is also to learn what you don't know.
more about Sophia at Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(w…
more Greek proverbs at the blog: greekreaders.blogspot.com/2024/04/12-roc…
Sophia at Ephesus:

okay, I guess I will be going back to Oklahoma ha ha ha. putting it on my calendar now.
optimistically.

quote 'phonics-led approach is less effective than one that focuses on comprehension more broadly'

& this holds true for 2nd-language instruction too; learners need COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT.
see Stephen Krashen:
The Case for Comprehensible Input
sdkrashen.com/content/articl…

Hector Manuel Tapia III :-)

Congrats to Cynthia Steele, whose translation of two Mapuche-Huiliche poems by Jaime Huenún Villa, published by WLT, was chosen for inclusion in Best Literary Translations 2024!

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Congrats to Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, whose translations of two pieces by Anastasia Afanasieva were longlisted for the inaugural Best Literary Translations 2024!

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Congrats to Rashi Rohatgi, whose translation of an excerpt by Abhimanyu Unnuth was longlisted for the inaugural Best Literary Translations 2024!

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one of my fav mythological #GreekProverbs :
Ὕδραν τέμνεις.
You're chopping a hydra.
This metaphorically means making a bad situation worse when trying to fix it: cut off one hydra-head, two grow back!
More about the hydra & more Greek proverbs at the post: greekreaders.blogspot.com/2024/04/11-cho…

An interesting article for today. Conrad Wolfram is always a thoughtful commentator and thinker on the mathematics students need for the modern world. I recommend this article. And the image chosen for it is perfect: conradwolfram.com/writings/us-ma… The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Gaza war is stirring up every radical movement across the Middle East.

Its recruitment potential against the US and Israel is enormous & will have repercussions for decades.

Bin Laden insisted that his notion to destroy the World Trade Center in 2001 first came to him as…

Only three months until -Pedagogy of Kindness- is published! You can pre-order at the link below, or your favorite retailer bit.ly/PreOrderPoK

well, it's not looking good for eclipse-viewing here in Austin... very cloudy.
but then I saw from this interactive at the NYTimes that we're not alone: a lot of people are going to be seeing a cloudy eclipse.
argh! in North Carolina for the last one I had perfectly clear sky...

today's proverb is about Homer and other storytellers:
Πολλὰ ψεύδονται ἀοιδοί.
The bards tell many lies.
The words appear in Aristotle's Metaphysics, who labels them a παροιμία, 'proverb.'
details & more proverbs at the post: greekreaders.blogspot.com/2024/04/10-swe… #GreekProverbs
here's Homer: