User:Katolophyromai
I am now an aspiring historian mainly interested in ancient Greek cultural and social history. My research interests include ancient Greek religion, mythology, and folklore; gender and sexuality; race and ethnicity; historiography; and interactions between Greek cultures and cultures of the Near East. I graduated from Indiana University Bloomington in May 2022 with "high distinction" (i.e., magna cum laude) with a BA in history and classical studies (Ancient Greek and Latin languages) and an honors thesis in history about the religious practices of the Galloi of Kybele in Hellenistic Asia Minor in the third and second centuries BCE. Since August 2022, I have been a student in the MA program in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies at Brandeis University.
My username is a reference to "κατολοφύρομαι," which is the first word of the first stasimon from Orestes by Euripides. It is the first-person singular present middle indicative form of the ancient Greek verb meaning "I cry out in lamentation." The reason I chose this word for my username is because the Wikipedia article for the ancient Greek musical composition preserved in Vienna Papyrus G 2315 is entitled "Katolophyromai," which I at the time, with my high-school-aged sense of humor, thought was the most hilarious title for a Wikipedia page ever.
Some articles I've worked on
At one time, I was an extremely prolific writer here on Wikipedia. Nowadays I am far less active, since I spend more time writing answers on Quora and articles on my website. Below is a list of some of the Wikipedia articles I worked on the most. Please note that all these articles may have changed drastically in the years since I worked on them.
Recognized Content
Failed Featured Article candidate
- Pythagoras (passed GA review on 2 February 2018; failed FAC on 23 September 2018)
Featured List
- List of Mesopotamian deities (promoted on 29 May 2018)
Good articles
Wrote almost entirely
- Athena (passed review on 22 December 2017)
- Inanna (passed review on 8 January 2018)
- Hypatia (passed review on 24 January 2018)
- Aphrodite (passed review on 26 January 2018)
- Jonah (passed review on 30 January 2018)
- Anunnaki (passed review on 2 February 2018)
- Satan (passed review on 6 February 2018)
- Enlil (passed review on 11 February 2018)
- Lucian (passed review on 20 February 2018)
- Dumuzid (passed review on 20 February 2018)
- Origen (passed review on 20 February 2018)
- Ancient Greek literature (Initially failed review on 17 May 2017; passed review on 19 March 2018)
- Anu (passed review on 8 April 2018)
- Gilgamesh (passed review on 29 May 2018)
- Royal Game of Ur (passed review on 5 June 2018)
- Mary Magdalene (passed review on 30 June 2018)
- Ninurta (passed review on 10 July 2018)
- Marcellina (gnostic) (passed review on 22 July 2018)
- Kratos (mythology) (passed review on 12 August 2018)
- Brownie (folklore) (passed review on 21 August 2018)
- Satyr (passed review on 16 October 2018)
- Bull of Heaven (passed review on 11 November 2018)
- Library of Alexandria (passed review on 14 November 2018)
- Udug (passed review on 22 December 2018)
- Epicurus (passed review on 27 December 2018)
- Contra Celsum (passed review on 15 February 2019)
Significantly contributed to
- Hammurabi
- Nibiru cataclysm
- Samson
- Sappho
- Saturnalia (passed review on 5 February 2018)
- Aristotle (passed review on 30 March 2018)
- Odyssey (passed review on 10 October 2020)
Failed "Good Article" nominee
- Dragon (Failed review on 7 May 2018)