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I hate inputting Greek. Even though I am getting good at getting the accents in before their vowels, and figuring out that final-sigma is actually "w" and upsilon is actually "y" (I *know* that this makes sense from a transliteration perspective, but I keep sticking in thetas instead, and then started putting upsilons in where I wanted thetas...)

But it is all okay, because as a result of my painful, letter-by-letter analysis of Epictetus, I have not only realized how amazing the Helvidius-as-praetextum metaphor is, making his behavior all about what senators should do and traditionally do, and his exemplarity into a specifically senatorial and Roman thing which other senators and Romans should look to, but that it also problematizes all of this by making him into a passive exemplar, and only useful when historicized, which is more or less EXACTLY what Tacitus complains about re: martyrs. So yay, even though I'm not sure I'm going to be able to write it all up by Tuesday.

Also, I kind of what to start watching Battlestar Galactica, now that I have learnt that it is The Aeneid in Space. But I don't have time -- maybe this summer.

Also 2: my translation of Antigone suggests that I imagine Constable Elbow when reading the speeches of the Sentry. Except that then the Measure for Measure parallels become a little too much. And since this is the House of Oedipus we're talking about, the idea that Creon might proposition Antigone or Ismene suddenly isn't as unbelievable as it should be.