Archive - Painful Signs, Or, Joel's Substack

Homer’s ‘Set List’: Imagining a Performance of the Iliad

Part 1: Singers in Homer and the Panathenaic Rule

Jun 20 •

Joel Christensen

People-Eating Kings

Metaphors and Civil Strife in the Iliad

Jun 14 •

Joel Christensen

Hephaestus' Golden Girls

What Can the Iliad Tell us About Artificial Intelligence?

Jun 5 •

Joel Christensen

Agamemnon, STFU

Sociolinguistics and Homer

Jun 1 •

Joel Christensen

May 2025

Rehumanized: The Iliad on Violence, Lament, and Becoming Human

Part 3: Rehumanized

May 25 •

Joel Christensen

Rehumanized: The Iliad on Violence, Lament, and Becoming Human

Part 2: Theoretical Interlude

May 24 •

Joel Christensen

Rehumanized: The Iliad on Violence, Lament, and Becoming Human

Part 1: Violence and Lament

May 23 •

Joel Christensen

Swallow Songs and Defective Lines

Sound and Sense in Homer

May 9 •

Joel Christensen

And Now For Something Musically Different

Epic: The Musical

May 2 •

Joel Christensen

April 2025

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