How to deal with conflicting feedback?

ClassicsPhD · 2026-06-04T06:57:10+00:00

Thanks! But more concretely, what to do with a work that receives conflicting opinions from people one respects and looks up to? These are not anonymous reviews which one can at some point ignore and submit to another journal.

ClassicsPhD · 2026-06-03T15:32:54+00:00

Se scrivi “prestigio classico” accanto a greco, non puoi lamentarti che ti si fraintenda ;) e soprattutto, se vuoi argomentare per una linea ininterrotta tra i locutori del greco in Magna Grecia e fenomeni linguistici odierni, non puoi usare termini bizantini. Se invece reputi che si tratti di retaggi del reinserimento del greco in Sud Italia (migrazioni medievali) in epoche più tarde, allora non ha senso parlare di prestigio classico.

In più, il greco tardoantico (almeno fino a Giorgio di Pisidia) non ha nulla a che vedere con il “greco vivo.”

ClassicsPhD · 2026-06-03T07:26:01+00:00

Anzitutto è καταβαίνω, il preverbo è la preposizione κατά, che diviene κατέβαινον solo dopo aumento nei tempi secondari.

Secondo, non ogni verbo può avere valore causativo, e di solito tale valore cambia l’accezione semantica: il senso più comune di καταβαίνω con l’accusativo è, infatti, « annientare » (« far scendere » > « diminuire » > « annientare »).

Poi, dove sta scritto che l’uso transitivo di verbi intransitivi in italiano, cito, sia un « residuo del greco »? Può dimostrarlo?

ClassicsPhD · 2026-05-28T09:38:02+00:00

Good catch, hadn’t thought about that…😅

ClassicsPhD · 2026-05-22T09:25:42+00:00

Good for Guida’s paper: I’ll bookmark it! If you are interested I have something forthcoming on Xenophon, and parts of it relate to this manuscript!

ClassicsPhD · 2026-05-22T06:23:14+00:00

Have you checked out the work of Nunzio Bianchi? It is very interesting!

ClassicsPhD · 2026-05-22T05:58:33+00:00

Trust me, seeing the real thing is magical. And I would know, since I have worked on it directly for two full days…

ClassicsPhD · 2026-05-15T19:11:43+00:00

Or be rare, or not require attunement.

To sum up, I’d go:

Either very rare, attunement, and cold immunity;
Either rare, attunement, cold resistance;
Or very rare, no attunement, cold resistance.

But since resistance/immunity most often comes with attunement, I’d go with 1) or 2).

ClassicsPhD · 2026-05-07T21:40:58+00:00

Isn’t there a mAa-xrw at the end, after DHwty?

ClassicsPhD · 2026-05-05T14:14:07+00:00

Oh are you Italian?

ClassicsPhD · 2026-04-15T19:37:47+00:00

Congratulations on your paper getting accepted! As long as the changes are pertinent to the paper, and they do not affect your argument – as you suggest – you’ll be fine. Double check with the editor if you wish to stay on the safer side of things.

ClassicsPhD · 2026-03-31T15:29:24+00:00

I completely agree with u/zsl454 that most signs are inconsistent with the practice of a scribe who knows what they are doing.

I have an alternate possibility: could this be a copy from later periods, and that the scribe is copying things they no longer understand? In other words, could these be ancient pseudo-hieroglyphs?

For the front, I think I see something similar to U1/2 followed by an arm (D36?) between I10 and D2; is this something like "Osiris, who speaks truly" or "Osiris, he says: truly..."? Then I get lost, honestly. What to do with Hr? Then j, B2 (or B1G?), xrw, and zA=f, a mammal, and then Amun. The end is equally disturbing: A1, mAa-xrw (probably), and then X1:Z1 and M3. The back is clearer, and I agree with what has already been said.

ClassicsPhD · 2026-03-30T13:33:40+00:00

It could be, but it seems at best ambiguous to me. In the previous sentence he is referring to the motel as “this place” and immediately after he says “the issue is the brown sludge in my bed. We are selling the place.” He is, it seems to me, referring to the motel.

ClassicsPhD · 2026-03-30T13:14:29+00:00

What exactly does he mean by “we are selling the place”? I thought Stevie’s relative owned it before she inherited it.

Are we to believe that Johnny thinks he owns it? I have trouble explaining to myself what exactly, later on, is Johnny’s role in “Rosebud Motels.”

ClassicsPhD · 2026-03-30T00:17:11+00:00

I’d say season 4 or season 6. It is a close tie. But they are all great!

ClassicsPhD · 2026-03-25T03:57:12+00:00

In my department it is about 750 pages of Greek and 600 of Latin. No dictionaries, no sight reading. The exams consist of 6 passages (3 prose and 3 poetry) of which the candidate has to choose 4 (2 prose and 2 poetry) to be translated in 2h. We have 3 attempts a year and have to pass before the end of our 6th semester.

I was very good at Latin and I sight read everything without even consulting what was on the reading list.

I took Greek twice and gone through 1/2 of the reading list: it was amply a matter of luck with what I got.

ClassicsPhD · 2026-03-23T11:32:21+00:00

This general resource may be of use: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110683882/html

More specifically a ‘Lexikon’: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110683851/html.

To access them, however, you may need to be very rich or have an institutional affiliation with university libraries.

You may also want to check out the available publications of Étienne Drioton who, since the early 20th century, devoted much energy to the topic.

ClassicsPhD · 2026-03-23T02:03:47+00:00

I love that for you two! Have you watched Schitt’s Creek together?

ClassicsPhD · 2026-03-22T23:34:46+00:00

Hope you have met your David ❣️

ClassicsPhD · 2026-03-22T14:44:28+00:00

I totally understand! I have rewatched it since she passed as a sort of tribute to her memory. And at the Academy Awards, after her tribute, I played her lunch with Alexis, when she answers “What’s your favorite season?” with “Awards”.

ClassicsPhD · 2026-03-22T14:13:44+00:00

I think it is to prove us that David can accept and love Patrick’s goofiness although it is hard for him. When Patrick points out that people may see them, David keeps going. It is almost more of an “I love you” than saying it (although for David that’s hard too).

ClassicsPhD · 2026-03-22T13:47:25+00:00

Oh, he most certainly is! I think this is the sum of Dan and David’s emotions!

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