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💥 Publication of 107 new inscriptions on Attic Inscriptions Online! 👉 New entries include all votives of artisans and workers, and boundary stones of the Athenian empire on Aigina. 🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chris de Lisle and team! 🔗 buff.ly/4Bgd7gF

Based on feedback from applicants, reviewers and broader research community, the ERC Scientific Council decided to make changes in the 2026–27 calls for proposal for research funding. More details from the ERC President 👉 europa.eu/!hP3WWF What’s your take on this? Tell us! 👇

Conference on Italian papyrus collections. “Le collezioni di papiri in Italia: bilanci e prospettive”

Euripides' Orestes in ancient Greek, performed by the Oxford Ancient Languages Society (2024) youtu.be/e4hkHcDbt8I?...

Revel Coles, editor of several P.Oxy. vols, died on 12 September. A piece of amicitia papyrologorum goes with him. He published a hypothesis of Euripides' Alexandros and authored the Location List of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. A charisterion was offered to him in 2015: books.fupress.com/catalogue/ch...

Two Augurs by Jean-Léon Gérôme (c. 1824-1904), reproduced by Goupil & Cie (19th century) - The Historian's Hut thehistorianshut.com/2025/09/12/t...

Josephine Crawley Quinn on why studying ancient languages youtu.be/PUDmxmsaxqc?...

Classics and Ancient History at Liverpool ranked 8th in the UK www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Patrick Finglass on the New Euripides @hellenicsociety.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=WBSa...

Round table on the Ezekiel Papyrus, with @sofiatorallas.bsky.social @rakimenides.bsky.social Eric White, Jill Unkel, Brent Nongbri, Georgios Boudalis and Roberta Mazza, today (12 Sep 2025) at 4:30 CET. Program: fundacionpastor.es/coloquio-y-m... Streaming: www.youtube.com/live/BrZFg9-... #papyrology

On Professors of Latin at Liverpool… just published: … www.hcsjournal.org/ojs/index.ph...

👏With huge thanks to @lcostantini89.bsky.social our annual CUCD statistics report is up at: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0... 📣Highlights include: overall increase in UG students, an increase in students taking Greek ab initio, and higher PGT student numbers! Read more for details.

Liverpool students excavating at Mendik (Turkey), a site dating to the very beginnings of the Neolithic period about 11,700 years ago.

New issue of ZPE (233, 2025): ifa.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/IfA/ZP... Includes articles on the new Euripides.

Series of 2024-25 lectures on ancient economies at Rome's Sapienza University, now up on YouTube. #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky m.youtube.com/@ancientecon...

You will rarely see an article by a 19th c. artist in a modern scientific journal: Antonio Canova, Conghiettura Sopra L'Aggruppamento De'Colossi Di Monte Cavallo, GGA 1802. Features a reconstruction of the original placement of the Horse Tamers in Rome gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN174762...

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Giulia Bonasio, whose new book was published over the summer! 📚 'The Unity of the Virtues in the Eudemian Ethics' shows that understanding the philosophical proposal of the EE is fundamental for a full picture of Aristotle’s ethics. 🔗 academic.oup.com/book/60082

AI getting Aristonicus completely wrong.

The 17th International Congress of Greek and Latin #Epigraphy will be in Bologna (30 August–4 September 2027) site.unibo.it/epigrafia-gr...

The Ancient Books Website ancientbooks.papyrology.org

Farting in 2018 vs farting in 1925. Diogenes Laertius 6.94.

Catullus’s rudest poem, my new translation. You know you want to read it. You can even hear it read. open.substack.com/pub/armandda...

Coming soon: The Meaning of Myth in Uncertain Times. How classical #mythology helps us navigate a world in crisis By Evelien Bracke www.routledge.com/The-Meaning-...

New edition with commentary of Callimachus’ Apotheosis of Arsinoe available @joliheroics.bsky.social

New Knights, now available @joliheroics.bsky.social ! #aristophanes

Copy of Poetae Bucolici et Didactici (1862) at @joliheroics.bsky.social Owned by Herbert Wilson Greene, a student at Magdalen College Oxford when he acquired it in 1902; then by Stefan Weinstock, who must have got it some time after 1940, when he first moved to Oxford www.jstor.org/stable/27685...

Lots of exciting new books for those who work on ancient slavery and writing arriving in the next few months! First up @chancebonar.bsky.social’s God, Slavery, and Early Christianity from @universitypress.cambridge.org

K.J. Dover, Ancient Greek Literature, introduction. The painter in question is Karel Appel.

Out of print. Got it in Skoob in London for a third of the price it is sold for at AbeBooks and a fourth of the price at Amazon. Pretty chuffed.

Precarious contracts keep getting shorter. Until recently short-term associate lecturer contracts were for 10 months. Now UCL advertises for 7 months. What does it say about our field, about how we treat the new generation of scholars? www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW277/a...

The latest installment of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae is finally in print. From "reus" to "robustus".

One of the oldest surviving handwritten documents from Britain! A 1,900 year-old business letter from Octavius to Candidus at Vindolanda Roman fort urgently asking him for cash to settle a balance. A glimpse of life on the Roman Empire’s northern frontier. 📷 by me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

We’re very sorry to share the sad news that former Vice-Chair and long-time supporter of the Society, John J Johnston, passed away this morning following a short illness. Aidan Dodson has kindly provided a short memorial to John here: www.ees.ac.uk/resource/joh...

A talk about Multilingualism and Diversity in Antiquity, with Rachel Mairs youtu.be/cePlb8-BbN0?...

“Believe me, there is nothing so difficult, which would not be rendered easy by reading carefully and often.” Nihil est, mihi crede, tam difficile, quod saepe et accurate legendo non fiat facile. #Manutius

Ἐλπὶς ἀεὶ βιότου κλέπτει χρόνον· ἡ πυμάτη δὲ ἠὼς τὰς πολλὰς ἔφθασεν ἀσχολίας. Anticipation always steals the time of our life, and the last dawn surprises us with many projects unaccomplished. Julius Polyaenus (first century BC?), Greek Anthology 9.8

Greek manuscript of Hesiod's Theogony with commentaries added by John Tzetzes, 16th century copy. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tz...

Next online course, starting Wednesday 17 September: Dr Peter Guest Roman Coinage in Britain Wednesday 17, 24 September, 1, 8, 15 October, 6-7.30pm (UK time) www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...

Did I mention we are hiring a Latinist?!

In place of sleep, there drips before the heart the pain of misery recalled: even upon the unwilling comes a measured mind. στάζει δ᾿ ἀνθ᾿ ὕπνου πρὸ καρδίας μνησιπήμων πόνος· καὶ παρ᾿ ἅ- κοντας ἦλθε σωφρονεῖν. (Aesch. Ag. 179-181) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

Hey friends, it would mean a lot to me if you took a minute to sign this petition to defend my friends and colleagues at my alma mater. Cuts to Oregon’s humanities are widespread and devastating, and I genuinely fear for the future of intellectual life at UO. actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...

'What is it like to study papyrus fragments of ancient Greek lost plays & poetry? How can you create new live theatre out of them?' A short film about the world of #papyrology and how it's inspired Fragments, a play by Laura Swift and Russell Bender. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrar...

Boscoreale near Pompeii is famous for its villas. Its fertile land was cultivating vines, olives and cereals. The frescos from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They date to around 40–30 BC, to the late Second Style. #RomanSiteSaturday

The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. One of the world’s greatest lexicographic projects, ongoing since the 1890s. Indispensable for Classical research.

“Thus one thing never ceases to arise from another, and life is given to no one for ownership, but to all for rent.” sic aliud ex alio numquam desistet oriri vitaque mancipio nulli datur, omnibus usu #Lucretius

Professor Gesine Manuwald appointed as General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library. She will join Professor Jeffrey Henderson in the newly shared role. www-loebclassics-com.liverpool.idm.oclc.org

OUP's Women in Antiquity is such a good idea - with recent additions on Balthild, Radegund and Theodora. global.oup.com/academic/con...

New issue of Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 9, No. 3 (2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/3 @drewjakeprof.bsky.social @simchagross.bsky.social @annetteyreed.bsky.social @akjp89.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social The Ways that Never Parted: A Roundtable & more