User:Katolophyromai

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My real name is Spencer McDaniel. I made my first edit on Wikipedia on 3 December 2016 when I was a junior in high school. I subsequently became an extremely prolific editor here for about two years, during which time I rewrote many articles and brought them up to "

Good Article" status. I eventually stopped editing Wikipedia as frequently in around late 2018, shortly after I started university, but I still edit occasionally. I am one of the main contributors to articles about ancient Greek and Near Eastern religion, philosophy, and literature. I almost single-handedly wrote many of the articles about ancient Sumerian mythology. In addition to editing Wikipedia, since October 2016, I have also been writing my own blog Tales of Times Forgotten, where I discuss a diverse range of topics, which are usually related to pre-modern history in some fashion. Since October 2018, I have also been answering questions on Quora
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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

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
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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.

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Good articles

Wrote almost entirely
Significantly contributed to

Failed "Good Article" nominee

Articles I created