Back with another instalment of Pliny genius, @gregorystringer.bsky.social teaching Pliny's Letters for #SeumasU thepatrologist.com/product/lati... starts Mon 23rd Feb

The new term at #SeumasU has just begun, and it's a pleasure to be in classes again speaking ancient Greek and Latin with students, reading classical and medieval texts, and generally having fun with languages.

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

Kicking off new #SeumasU classes in less than 2 weeks! Latin and Greek, oh my. thepatrologist.com/shop/

Classics/ancient history friends, is there anyone at USyd who could scan this for me plz? D'Agostino, B. (1974). "Il mondo periferico della Magna Grecia." In Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica, eds. B. D'Agostino, P. E. Arias, and G. Colonna, pp. 177-272. Rome: Biblioteca di Storia Patria.

Now's about the right time to sign up for #SeumasU classes starting in January. Latin and Ancient Greek a plenty. thepatrologist.com/shop/

At the risk of hugging the third rail, the truth of the academic job market, at least in history or classics, is neither DEI or anti-DEI. It is that that 1) there are no jobs and 2) our hiring culture treats candidates like they 'spoil' after a few years. No one knows who is mediocre or not.

The Scottish Languages Act 2025 comes into effect today - but its significance will only become clear over time. It's a complex, incrementalist measure and much depends on how it's implemented. My analysis here bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/20/t...

How on earth did the Athenaze textbook become ***so*** expensive?? Ridiculous

ugh, trying to fit all the courses I'd like to teach into the tiny windows of time that I have for teaching.

A reason I can be in church without collapsing under the weight of cognitive dissonance is that I go to church with this family and many other congregants contributing in whatever ways they can.

Evergreen meme

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Just to be clear, it’s all convos with Satan

no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

can't stop thinking about this Gàidhlig saying duolingo taught me

Favorite work on teaching classical languages? Especially blog/online/otherwise atraditional stuff that won't show up in a library search

today I started teaching two sections of a new course I'm developing, designed on the premise, "what if you wanted to learn conversational Ancient Greek, as if you were travelling to a modern country and wanted to have (CEFR) A1 level conversations?"

The National, Scotland, 13 October 2025:

I know where they can get those answers (and much, much more!) 😉 www.bolchazy.com/A-Pliny-Work...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

I was honored to preach at @candlertheology.bsky.social's chapel last week. My sermon was "Render Unto Caesar: Preaching the Gospel in an Era of Christian Power." There may have been some subtext. Watch here: www.youtube.com/embed/Xdk3k3... Read here: matthewdtaylor.substack.com/p/render-unt...

Force is ubiquitous in everyday life. We act and are acted on by causal sequences that require the exertion of force. Typical force interactions shape our inferences about the world and how we communicate in language. 1/# #biblicalgreek #linguistics (& cc: @koine-greek.com)

two weeks to go until the new term of #SeumasU I'm feeling excited and enthused about language teaching, which is a great thing! thepatrologist.com/shop/

seall air seo. it's Horst Wessel and the Reichstag fire rolled into one. designate your enemies as terrorists, invert blame for violence, and silence your opponents until there is no democracy left in america.

Lux Patrum is hiring! We are looking for people to produce bilingual editions of texts. Required: - a reasonably strong command of Greek or Latin - competence in Microsoft Word. Reach out to [email protected] if you're interested.

Got my stylish new sweatshirt to rep my first semester teaching for the U! #SeumasU #APPliny @jeltzz.bsky.social

new EO dropped. I mean, the very first sentence is wrong: “Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

this _is_ blasphemy

Fun facts you will learn in this episode: 1. Anglicanism is the most converted to denomination for autistic Christians 2. When you correct for ratios, autistic women are twice as likely to be Anglican than autistic men 3. Autistic Christians love the BCP (a lot)

filling out a referee form for someone and stumped at occupation. "virtual sophist", "professor without a university", "necromancer of languages"?

Iter Subterraneum is quickly becoming my favourite Latin text of the year.

my new class 'speak ancient greek' already filled up, so I made a second section for it. I'm trialling new materials to help you speak from day 1, conversational ancient greek. thepatrologist.com/product/gree...

about to embark on what I think will be my final year at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (air astar) and my imposter syndrome is in full force.

my brain is bubbling with ancient greek pedagogy ideas. now to just clone myself to have the time to bring them into the light.

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

pondering doing a video lecture series for free that talks through the Greek of whole chapters of NT texts.

new and exciting courses at SeumasU starting in October thepatrologist.com/2025/09/01/n...

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

Today, August 24 is, according to the letter of Pliny the Younger, the anniversary of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that buried Pompeii. Come read that letter (VI.16) and the 9 others of the new required #APLatin syllabus with me this fall, Monday’s at 7 EDT on Zoom, starting September 1! 🌋 🏛️

Any diagnosis of the problem that doesn’t clearly see the “lecturers” doing the grunt work as the *colleagues* whose research careers are already being sacrificed on the altar of Capital isn’t going to identify a path forward for the future of the academic humanities /5

3 crucial roles for the university: to preserve, transmit, and create knowledge.

Very excited to announce that Gregory Stringer @gregorystringer.bsky.social is offering an Latin course on Pliny, esp. for teachers, under the #SeumasU umbrella. Starts September 1st, sign up today. thepatrologist.com/product/lati...

12th August 1944, 560 civilians are massacred in the mountain village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in the Province of Lucca (Tuscany). The victims are almost all women and children. The atrocity is carried out by Waffen-SS troops, aided by Italian fascists [Thread] >> 1

Hey AP Latin teachers and other interested Pliny readers! My book, A Pliny Workbook, is on the precipice of printing! In the meantime, you can pre-order it here: www.bolchazy.com/A-Pliny-Work... #Classics #Latin

oh man, my latin got so rusty from not speaking for a while.

Really excited to be back working on the Greek Learner Texts Project!

I'm running a Latin course on Niels Klim’s Iter Subterraneum, and we've changed the evening to Tuesdays; so if you were thinking of signing up (or now are!) there's still time. thepatrologist.com/product/lati...

Them: Seumas, are you writing a book? Me: Do you mean in English? Or in Ancient Greek?