Very intrigued by the new media coming out with ancient inspired titles. Like Pluribus and Bugonia...

Fair enough.

If anybody wants to pitch a good Neo-Latin text to DCC, please do! dcc.dickinson.edu/contribute

Thinking ahead to next summer ... just announced: Conventiculum Dickinsoniense 2026. blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2025/10/...

Perfect.

Coming soon: first English translation of the ancient scholia to the Iliad. Books 1 and 2. www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Myyhologiae Classicae) is a great, albeit idiosyncratic, resource that takes some effort to work with

Very excited indeed to welcome poet, translator, and essayist A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social to Dickinson for the 27th Annual Roberts Lectures, October 10 and 11, 2025. Please join us for one or both if you are able! www.dickinson.edu/info/20033/c...

"This project gave me hope for Classics." The 2025 DCC High School Internship Program Is a Wrap blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2025/08/...

Latin scansion basics, with video: dcc.dickinson.edu/ovid-amores/...

I did two Classics themed panels at a Con this weekend and my takeaway is that more classicists should do panels at nerd Cons because a) the attendees are interested and b) so much of sci-fi/fantasy/speculative fiction is rooted in myth/history/etc.

NEW at DCC: Elizabeth Manwell (Kalamazoo College), Vergil: Georgics 4. dcc.dickinson.edu/vergil-georg...

William Turpin's (@swarthmore) new DCC edition of Gesta Francorum has all the bells and whistles. I am loving these new maps by the amazing Gabriel Moss. Just click on the media tab here. dcc.dickinson.edu/gesta-franco...

NEW at DCC: Gesta Francorum, edited by William Turpin. Latin text, running vocab, notes, audio and new maps by Gabriel Moss dcc.dickinson.edu/gesta-francoru…

Evergreen: Why not to bother learning more than three principal (really, just two) parts in the first instance (data compiled by Rolf Noyer at Penn)

#SunoikisisDC session tomorrow: Analysing and Visualising Text, with Kaspar Beelen (University of London) & Megan Bushnell (Oxford Text Archive). ics.sas.ac.uk/events/sunoi...

There will be 90 (count ‘em, ninety) DCC Summer High School Interns this year. It’s a very talented group, will be working about 5 hours per week on Vergil, Gesta Francorum, Pliny, Elegiac Romulus, images for the core vocab, and data for The Bridge. Thanks to teachers who recommended it!

Interesting question raised here. What is archaeologically distinctive about a lupanar, as opposed to a taberna?

One of the successful team in the Vesuvius Challenge. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

It seems like I spend the first years of a student's college career telling them that the humanities are essential for a good life, then, when they decide to go to graduate school in the humanities I want to tell them "Get out, it's a death trap, a suicide rap."

Who Killed Marrucinus Asinius? | Dickinson College Commentaries blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2025/01/...

We should see AI in the writing process as analogous to the topoi or loci communes of classical rhetoric: a way to get your thinking started with basic, common types of arguments, to be refined and applied to your situation.

A fine scholar who will be missed.

I went to a full day workshop on AI in education yesterday, and got so upset I had to leave the room a couple times. By the end I had calmed down and could think about being grateful for the opportunity to rethink EVERYTHING.

I was initially reluctant to read this piece based on title and topic, but as always with Jeff Mauer, there is wisdom amid the outrageous similes. open.substack.com/pub/imightbe...

Odd slip in LSJ; dealt with correctly in DGE and Brill-Montanari.

Unless you’re a fabulous body lugging around a tiny soul.

This seems like a goldmine: George Bennet, Easy Latin stories for beginners : with vocabulary and notes (1892). It's got the gold ants! archive.org/details/easy...

Do you know any high school Latin (or Greek!) students who would like to contribute to Dickinson College Commentaries in an internship over the summer? Please urge them to apply! blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2024/12/...

Both AIs did a superb job of crafting dictionary forms to my specifications. There were occasional errors of lemmatization, e.g. ἐπαινέω for ἔπαινος, σύζυγος for συζυγία. Claude was somewhat better at lemmatization than GPT, but both were very good. blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2025/01/...

I went into this panel rather repelled by AI, more aware of it as a tool for cheating on college writing assignments, and a potential menace to humanity, than as a potential aid in my beloved philology. I came out intrigued with the possibilities blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2025/01/...

The warm afterglow of a *very* successful #AIASCS25 seems like a good moment to report, first, that the AIA and SCS have signed a contract for the 2027 meeting, to be held in Boston (2026 in SF), and second, that the SCS Board is committed to continuing the joint annual meeting! 1/2

Here is a link to the NECJ “(Re)Active Latin” article on LLMs and teaching Latin through conversation that I mentioned during today’s talk #aiascs

Just announced: 2025 Dickinson College Commentaries High School Online Internship Program. We piloted this last year and it was a great success. I hope any high school aged Latinists who want to participate will apply! Dickinson College blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2024/12/...

Random plug for Johan Winge's Macronizer. This outstanding tool for putting macrons on Latin text was developed by an undergraduate at Uppsala University. I use it all the time in making materials for my students and for DCC alatius.com/macronizer/

Just announced: Conventiculum Dickinsoniense July 14-19, 2025. Please join us if you can! blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2024/12/...

Has anybody read or taught with Christina Tsaknaki's _Ovid, Heroides: A Selection_? Thinking of using it in the spring for an upper-intermediate group.

When a comment on the Logeion blog is not spam🥰 As always, I want to add that you can also help a lot by reporting problems, data entry errors, and open-access dictionaries that we could include..

Text editing is coming along nicely for the summer 2024 Dickinson Latin Workshop on Luisa Sigaea. We'll have a clean Latin text with macrons, vocabulary lists, and some notes. I hope you can join us! blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2023/09/...

If you encounter bugs, please do send us a Problem report when using Logeion. We were painfully aware of this one, and are working on it, but more eyes will find more bugs. Handy for us to have them in a spreadsheet.

Just a great quote from Barbara Graziosi’s talk.

I’m always excited about adding a new language, especially when it’s spoken by quite a few.. Many thanks to Chris and his team. Send us dictionaries! 🥰

Oops. Should keep a master list for these. Logeion users owe thanks to @francese.bsky.social for many things, and now also Gonçalves' Lexicon Latino-Sinicum (yes, Latin-Chinese!), which you'll see in the update.

The latest update of the Logeion iOS app includes the Lexicon Magnum Latino-Sinicum, digitized at Dickinson. Thank you, @logeiongklat.bsky.social ! digitalorientalist.com/2023/11/21/t...

Logeion iOS app update! New dictionaries on your iPhone! (@logeiongklat.bsky.social)

New at Dickinson College Commentaries: Eutropius: Ab urbe condita. dcc.dickinson.edu

Saw this in the copy room and was briefly thrilled to think there was a new anthology of Latin SciFi. Psych!