Jeff Beneker (@JeffBeneker) header
Jeff Beneker (@JeffBeneker) profile picture

Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Joined July 2017
for #BookLoversDay, visit the website of #DeniseHarveyPublisher, whose every book is a treasure deniseharveypublisher.gr
3
4
343
“O my right hand, how you long to hold the spear, but in your weakness your longing has come to nothing.”—Euripides, Hercules 268–269 as quoted by Plutarch in Should an Old Man Engage in Politics? What's #JoeBiden's role in #politics now? @JeffBeneker hubs.ly/Q02J0W5B0
1
788
Congratulations to @islamaissa the worthy winner of #Runciman2024 for his magnificent book “Alexandria: The City that Changed the World” (Sceptre, 2023). Bravo! He gave a brilliant acceptance speech which we will post on our YouTube channel shortly.
7
2
21
2,333
Jeff Beneker retweeted
Ένας Instagram λογαριασμός-ωδή στη γοητεία της παλιάς Αθήνας | ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ #tovimagr tovima.gr/2024/06/01/life/at…
2
6
1,513
"and a low wall is built along the way, like the screen over which marionette players show their puppets. Behind the wall appear moving figures, who hold in their hands various works of art, and among them images of men and animals, wood and stone"
Soon, students will have CONVERSATIONS with Aristotle, Socrates, or Plato rather than just reading about them. This is how AI is REVOLUTIONIZING education.
1
4
23
3,551
The short list of #Runciman2024 has been announced. It’s a brilliant selection. Read, learn and enjoy! Details here. anglohellenicleague.org/news…
5
36
22
137
51,394
Thomas Jefferson was born #OnThisDay in 1743. “When Jefferson was called ‘a democrat’, it was not a compliment.” historian Andrew Burstein discusses Jefferson's wider political career: buff.ly/4aCXCri …
3
7
2,322
Sellos de Grecia 🇬🇷: Heracles y el centauro Neso. #ieda
1
9
1
36
2,890
"What was once stigmatized as a peasant vernacular at odds with Italian nation-building has been recast as something lofty, romantic and cool." Me for @ekathimerini on the strange rebirth of a Greek dialect in southern Italy ekathimerini.com/culture/123…
3
15
3
64
9,218
Our department is incredibly excited to welcome Katie Dennis (Princeton University, PhD’23) as she joins our department this fall as an Assistant Professor. Learn more about her at canes.wisc.edu/2023/09/06/in… #classics #faculty #princeton #uwmadison
7
1
1
2
679
¡𝐔𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐎 𝐈𝐍𝐎𝐋𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄! Felicitamos a nuestras 23 jugadoras y Cuerpo Técnico por una Copa Mundial Femenina de la FIFA 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼́𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 ¡𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙨 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙖 𝙥𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙣̃𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙤𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙜𝙪𝙞𝙧 𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙚𝙣̃𝙤! #PersiguiendoUnSueño #TodosSomosColombia🇨🇴
1,586
5,829
1,158
32,148
4,377,017
Jeff Beneker retweeted
¡Colombia hizo historia en la @FIFAWWC! ✍️ #CreeEnGrande

1
18
118
13,571
Jeff Beneker retweeted
Usme enters her name in the history books! Here's another look at Colombia's first goal in a knockout match at the FIFA Women's World Cup 🇨🇴
1
22
9
100
24,564
Our fall 22 catalog is live! Browse tinyurl.com/2vy6u4ew to see forthcoming books from @iamsteveadams, @MaryWimmer4, @maggieginsberg, @meka_will_write, @themoneyghost, @alice_hostetter, @AmySayward, @amihailo, @Lesley_N_Braun, @MogensRudiger, @LauraBe02192463, and many more!
2
7
1
8