Registration for @hellenicsociety.bsky.social and Roman Societies' next online course, with Professor Bruce Gibson, The Idea of Decline: Make Rome Great Again? is now open here: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... Wednesday 14, 21, 28 January, 4, 11 February, 6-7.30pm (UK time)

Fragmentology VIII (2025) is live. This is our biggest issue yet! doi.org/10.24446/qxs0 With studies of individual fragments and entire traditions, from the end of Antiquity through the present! All three eras: pre-medieval, medieval, and post-medieval!

‘Fromm argued that the rise of fascism could be explained in part by people preferring to surrender their freedom in exchange for the reassuring certainty of subordination. AI offers a new way of surrendering that burden of having to think and decide for yourself’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New commentary on Silius Italicus 17 out with OUP: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Picture of Karl Reinhardt, author of Parmenides und die Geschichte der griechischen Philosophie (1916), Poseidonios von Apameia: Der Rhodier genannt (1921), Sophokles (1933), Aischylos als Regisseur und Theologe (1948), and Die Iliad und ihr Dichter (posthumous, 1961). archive.org/details/trad...

On the Classics job front, 1-year job at Wabash (alas, no visa sponsorship, but I don't think that's unusual for VAPs this year with all the uncertainty). It's the current version of the job that was my first gig post-grad school, so I have quite a bit of fondness for it.

New issue of the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, edited by @sofiatorallas.bsky.social , with contributions on literary papyri from @theonash.bsky.social and myself.

New from Brill. Eustathius of Thessalonica Commentary on the Odyssey. Volume III Commentary on Rhapsodies 9-12 by S. Douglas Olson and E. Cullhed brill.com/display/titl...

Excited my book 'The meaning of myth in uncertain times: how classical mythology helps us navigate a world in crisis' is out 29/12 with Routledge. It explores how ancient myth shapes our understanding of the 'Super Wicked Problem' humanity is facing. E-book/paperback now 20% off! shorturl.at/BnrP8

Henk S. Versnel (1936-2025) e-revistas.uc3m.es/index.php/AR...

🚨PUBLISHED🚨 The #Archaeology of #Olive #Oil Production in #Roman & pre-Roman #Italy 🫒 READ: doi.org/10.1086/737823 ➡️Good data for Neolithic & BA olive exploitation & cultivation ➡️Possible earliest rotary olive crusher in the Med (7th c. BCE) ➡️Roman era oil prod widely & larger-scale across Italy 🧵

It would be good if someone would write a book on engagements with classics in early 20th century (middle class) women authors. There is a lot, in a really fascinating range of ways, and on varying topics. I would like to read the book.

Sven-Tage Teodorsson (1934-2024), author of A Commentary on Plutarch’s Table Talks (vols. 1–3). impactum-journals.uc.pt/ploutarchos/...

Timothy Renner (1946-2025) caas-cw.org/posts/

20 funded PhD positions at schadoc.univ-amu.fr (Aix-Marseille University) for interdisciplinary subjects within the remit of four thematic strands: Societies & Culture, Climate Change & Environmental Challenges, Health & Well-Being, Artificial Intelligence & its Applications. Apply by 12-1-26.

In 2024, the Liverpool Institute of Archaeology celebrated its 120th birthday. In this podcast Gavin Freeborn is joined by Professor Larry Barham, Dr Ceren Kabukcu and Rachel Stokes from @livancworlds.bsky.social to discuss their work. www.spreaker.com/episode/7-ar...

Call for Papers: Scribes, Transmission, and Bilingual Traditions: A Fresh Examination of GA 629 theo.kuleuven.be/en/general/c... This is one of Latin-Greek New Testament manuscripts digitized by the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, and it is freely accessible here: digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott...

Wait, what? AI, αἰαῖ.

EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Seminaris a Quatre Bandes 18 de desembre Tradicions sobre el diluvi Adelina Millet, Jaume Pòrtulas, Montserrat Reig, Jordi Vidal A la Sala Gabriel Oliver de la Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació, a la planta -1 de l’edifici Carner En streaming a: ub-edu.zoom.us/j/9144595507...

(254) Inside The Fight To Save The World's Most Important Manuscripts - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji-C...

New, important publication on #Alcaeus by Tom Ford: considers the evidence of Alcaeus’ manuscripts and of references to his work in other sources to try to reconstruct the Alexandrian edition by Aristarchus, following an earlier edition by Aristophanes of Byzantium. www.academia.edu/145394592/Th...

A major new study led by the British Museum has uncovered the earliest known evidence of humans creating fire — more than 400,000 years ago, pushing the timeline of fire-making technology back by an astonishing 350,000 years. 🔥 Read the full story here: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/12/10/g...

Reusing and Recycling Infrastructure: Policy Lessons from Archaeology? 16 December, 2025 - 9AM - 5PM Walbank Lecture Theatres, 12 Abercromby Square University of Liverpool

Congratulations to James Ker, Andrew Laird, and Julia Mebane, this year's recipients of the Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical Studies! And thanks to Andrew Riggsby and the rest of the committee for their work!

This was my last year on the committee, and we were once again hit with an overwhelming wave of great contenders. Very happy with the results. www.classicalstudies.org/scs-news/202...

The new McGill-Wright Aeneid translation has reached me today. It's a big book! Looking forward to reading it (teaching Virgil in translation in semester 2). I quite liked Barry Powell's translation (OUP 2015), but this one sounds as modern, accessible and student-friendly.

(140) Taking Home Agamemnon: Casting the Lion Gate Before and After Schliemann's Excavations at Mycenae - YouTube www.youtube.com/live/1EASKwD...

Here's a second sample from Easy Latin Puzzles which may serve to show that it's based on a simple vocabulary set (all listed at the end of the book, in three parts) and makes no use of inflected endings, so it is exactly what it says on the cover - easy. j-progs.com/LP/puzzles.h...

In this episode of The Ancients, Tristan Hughes and Dr. Zosia Archibald from @livancworlds.bsky.social uncover the fascinating world of the Thracians, an extraordinary people that lived in the rugged mountains of eastern Europe: podfollow.com/the-ancients...

Our own Ceren Kabukcu from @livancworlds.bsky.social is among the recipients of an ERC consolidator grant: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

So pleased this is finally out: "Social Network Analysis", with my favourite writing buddy, the incomparable Máirín MacCarron, in Brill's Companion to Roman Prosopography. We hope it will be useful, also for teaching! The whole volume looks great, congrats to the editors! brill.com/display/titl...

Now officially out: brill.com/display/titl...

#reception #Lucretius #BrokenSocialScene

Recently published in Ancient History & Classics | Dido's Tragedy: A Literary Commentary on Virgil's Fourth Aeneid is available now. Find out more about this new form of commentary here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

New Aeneid translation: roundtable 5-6.30pm on Monday 8 December 2025 at UCL. www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Our book, _War and Community in Late Antiquity_, is out in January and is edited by Tina Sessa and Susanna Elm. My chapter is on the literary and archaeological mapping of Roman troop billeting (no Third Amendment in Ancient Rome!) Excited to see this in print soon. www.cambridge.org/universitypr...

(21) Julius Caesar’s Gallic War Today: Cynthia Damon on Translating an Ancient Classic - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=62Rh...

A Historical or An Historical?

New Green and Yellow Theogony, ed. Strauss Clay & Vergados www.cambridge.org/highereducat...

New Cologne/California papyrus project The Crocodile and Human Mummies of Tebtynis: AI-Supported Reconciliation and Editorial Cataloging of Hellenistic Papyri from the Bancroft Library (€4.34 million in funding over 15 years) uni-koeln.de/universitaet...

Thank you Liverpool colleagues and students for attending my seminar on New Lithica from Oxyrhynchus today.

Coming soon! With a chapter on late antique Greek encomia by yours truly.

👨🏫 Remembering P.J. Rhodes 👉 Read Prof. Rhodes' Biographical Memoir, prepared by Prof. John Davies and Prof. Lynette Mitchell 🔗 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/59... 👉 Peter John Rhodes worked in our department from 1965 and was Professor of Ancient History between 1983 and 2005.

November 30, 1817: Birthday of the great Theodor Mommsen, perhaps the best Roman epigrapher and legal expert of all time. In addition to having epic hair, Max Weber was Mommsen’s star pupil. If you have time, check out the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) via the BBAW database. cil.bbaw.de/en/

The 2018 edited volume "Manuscripts and Archives: Comparative Views on Record-Keeping" is #OpenAccess. 🎉💪 One chapter on archives in Ancient Egypt, another on archives in Greco-Roman Egypt. #Egyptology #AncientBkueSky www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

🎉 EXCELLENT NEWS! The University of Ottawa has lifted the suspension of admissions to Greek & Roman Studies. Thank you to everyone who signed, shared, wrote letters, and raised their voice. Apply now for next year's cohort: buff.ly/1i2Iw0B #SaveTheHumanities #SOSClassicsUO #AncientHistory

We've got some HUGE news! We've DOUBLED in size overnight! Not only have we added "some" more Cairo Genizah fragments, but "ALL" of them @theul.bsky.social !!! This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

I see a lot of people promoting their books right now so if you would like a reliable cure for insomnia I would recommend this book on The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek, which can be bought from Brill with a 40% discount with the code DGBHOLIDAY40 brill.com/display/titl...

I'm not on here much, but I am so excited to share the cover of my forthcoming Catullus translation, featuring an amazing painting by Eduardo Mata Icasa (called "Nature of Emptiness"). As soon as I saw the painting, I knew no other work of art could more perfectly capture how I think about Catullus.