Hypatia
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- A Forum for Friends of Classics @ Leeds
- Duke Newt
- Evangelical Textual Criticism
- Ideas and Wisdom
- IDLE SPECULATIONS
- Pop Classics
- The Ironic Catholic
- Why I Am Catholic
| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | PhD student |
| Location | York, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | No longer doing some sort of PhD on some sort of topic at an English university, no longer posting on the doctoral process and matters arising therefrom, but trying to write to re-orientate my life whilst still rowing and coxing, still trying to enjoy art, iconography, books and life in general. |
| Interests | language, philosophy, theology, ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Catholicism, coffee, coffee appliances, wine, eating, reading, world music, classical music, world cinema, travelling, motor sport, F1, touring cars, the Tour de France, conspiracy theories, museums, art, architecture, art galleries, ancient manuscripts, illuminated manuscripts, preservation of knowledge, esoteric knowledge, alchemy, avoiding housework, Jewish apocalyptic literature |
| Favorite Movies | Amelie, Pan's Labyrinth, 300, Bombon El Pero, Motorcycle Diaries, Spartacus, Jason & the Argonauts, Gladiator, The Station Agent, La Vie En Rose, Life of Brian, The Name of the Rose, 633 Squadron, Fantastic Voyage (60's version), The Cruel Sea, White Christmas, Goodfellas, Dambusters, Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Public Enemy No 1 |
| Favorite Music | Handel's Messiah, Bach's St Matthew Passion, Goldberg Variations, Monteverdi 1610 Vespers, Durufle Requiem, Vierne organ music, Brahms' German Requiem, Berlioz Grande Messe des Morts, Lizst Sacred Choral Music, Tavener Mandelion, Svyati, The Lamb, Lament for Jerusalem, Arvo Part's Passio, Tabula Rasa, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Mozart Requiem, Gregorian and Ambrosian chant, Russian & Byzantine Divine Liturgy, Sephardic Romances, Cesaria Evora, Edith Piaf, Nat King Cole, Klezmer, Putamayo albums, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, 3Oh!3, Eminem |
| Favorite Books | The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, the Bible The Wind in the Willows, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Sum:40 Tales from the Afterlife, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Secret History, The Strange Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, All of Nikos Kazantzakis' works, anything by Naguib Mahfouz, anything by Jorge Luis Borges |
If you could peer far enough into the night sky, you'd see a star in any direction you looked. When would you sleep?
when I'd seen all there was to see