About

I’m Bee (she/her), a PhD student in classics and maker of things. I study Ovid and I like bees.[1]

You can find me on Tumblr as @splendidemendax and on AO3 as @splendide_mendax, or reach out to me by email.

Want to know what I'm up to at the moment? See my now page.

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A dog (light in color, medium in size, and fluffy) staring out the window.
My dog, Ariadne

favorite...

books

  • Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm
  • Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson
  • Notes on the Sonnets, Luke Kennard
  • A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
  • Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

albums

  • So Much (for) Stardust, Fall Out Boy
  • Sugar Water, Maude Latour
  • The Final Cut, Pink Floyd
  • El Mal Querer, ROSALÍA
  • new skin, VÉRITÉ

fonts

  • Brill[4]
  • Centaur MT
  • Futura
  • Nunito

shows

  • Doctor Who
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  • Star Trek: Enterprise[2]
  • The West Wing

movies

  • How to Train Your Dragon
  • The Princess Bride
  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home[3]

essays

  • "Future Reflexive", Alessandro Barchiesi
  • "Hekabe: Preface", Anne Carson
  • "Ur-Fascism", Umberto Eco
  • "A. E. Housman's De Amicitia", Laurence Housman
  • "Why I Became a Historical Novelist", Hilary Mantel
  • "How (Not) to Translate the Female Body", Stephanie McCarter
  1. And footnotes.^
  2. I know, I know, controversial call. However, hot take: ENT is great, actually.^
  3. A.k.a. "The One with the Whales".^
  4. The house font for the academic publisher Brill, which they've released free for personal use. Incredible coverage, even of the most niche symbols you can think of; it has something like twice as many glyphs as Times New Roman.^