I had somehow missed this, but Anna Pisarello's open-access tiered reader of Cicero's "Pro Archia" won the Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award from CAMWS-- it's great to see the book get that recognition: pixeliapublishing.org/2026/06/05/p...

Love the motto: È bello doppo il morire vivere ancora.

I don't love the experience of flying, but I DO love long, uninterrupted periods of reading. I think tomorrow is going to be a fumetti flight.

Looking for Medieval Latin philologists: Postdoc specializing in Digital Philology in München job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/4...

That's what I'm talking about. (Well, no, I'm not actually talking about it, but I'd like to be.)

"The Letter Z in Light of Latin Inscriptions (First to Seventh Centuries AD)"-- this is what I'm here for!

I love the quotation marks around "return date." Like they don't even pretend that I'll be returning them by then.

Not gonna lie about how much this line up would have excited me back in 3rd grade. Vanilla Ice coming off his steal-the-show performance in Ninja Turtles 2. Young MC, whose Bust a Move I *still* have memorized (with all the words garbled, because I was 9 and had no clue what he was talking about).

Revisionist history: some dinosaurs had feathers.

πολλὰ τὰ δεινὰ κοὐδὲν ἀνθρώπου δεινότερον πέλει

Latin version of Magnifica Humanitas not available yet?

Well, I took care of that hornets' nest. (Probably didn't need the zelda shield, but my kids insisted)

(trailer voice) In a world where tetrarchs rule and honor the old gods, one man is about to make a stand....

Who owns this place? Fortunato?

Best name on the internet today: Radbod

You know, you really don't get new Venetic inscriptions every day...

Five years ago, we set out to make a series of open-access editions of Latin texts written by women. Today we published volume 5, a collection of letters written by fifteen women in ancient Rome, from Cornelia (120s BCE) to Gudeliva (530s CE). pixeliapublishing.org/series/exper...

Okay, this was a pretty fun authorship-credit to write.

Here is a truism for the ages! "Good Champagne seems to have a most cheering effect on the archaeologists." A postscript to a letter of 23 February 1889 [DDSR 226/24/79]

So, what can I use instead of google to, you know, google things?

Corpus corporum!

Are there any extensive searchable Latin corpora? (Apart from PHI, which is restricted to antiquity, and Brepolis, which feels a bit scattershot in what is included)

I wonder how often, in plagiarism cases, I have heard a student say "This was the first time...."

The "six genders" thing is just ridiculous. As the fifth-century grammarian Priscian writes, Latin has SEVEN genders: masculine, feminine, neither, both, promiscuous, uncertain, and fluid.

I'm definitely a 3

Quick! Get Baudolino on the case!

Cool new issue on identity and social groups in pre-Roman Italy and early-Roman Italy.

New open-access edition of Willetrudis "Verses about Susanna." Please share around if you know anyone interested in medieval Latin, women Latin authors, or the reception of Daniel 13. #medievalsky pixeliapublishing.org/book/willetr...

I've moved my round up posts to the beginning of the month so there is less delay between when the books release and when I round them up. So here are the new releases for April 2026, happy reading! #medievalsky

The Erich S. Gruen Prize | Society for Classical Studies classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...

Printing Types: their History, Forms & Use. A Study in Survivals. Explore 360+ original illustrations and specimens spanning nearly 500 years. www.c82.net/printing-typ...

Wrong! (The one on the left should be a heavily pixelated screenshot of a screenshot of a screenshot of a photo taken on someone's phone in 2009.)

But perhaps not as much of a flex as the 19th-century title-pages in the Patrologia Latina volumes by J.P. Migne, publishing classical works but with 1000-word titles that largely praise him:

The empire also-known-as "Byzantine"-- do you call it the Eastern Roman Empire or East Roman Empire?

Pulling this open access book out of a thread to read later. Looks great!

Classics/Archaeology/Art History

Don't open it. DON'T OPEN IT!!

His proudest accomplishment? Not exposing the theft. It was that "I had the courage to take the leap into the unknown and resign my academic post."

My kids were asking me how magnets work, and I have no clue. As far as I'm concerned, it's basically alchemy. Like, somehow, some shred of alchemy was real and escaped from the middle ages.

Proofs of a new edition (not mine) of Willetrudis's Verses about Susanna. Do I have the juice to proof an entire book this morning? Probably not, but I'll get a good start. (Image, from the introduction, showing a page of the sole surviving manuscript)

Looking for new books published in the last month? Check out my roundup of new work #medievalsky

This legal analysis of the Hormuz blockade makes me feel like I'm in a Patrick O'Brian novel:

I was looking for a copy of Averil Cameron's memoirs, and it looks like Brepols sells it for 80(!) euros. Now, books are things of value, and they should cost money, but that price just highlights everything wrong with the academic (and academic-adjacent) publishing industry.

Today's fortuitous find: an 1826 Glossarium Eroticum Linguae Latinae. archive.org/details/pier...

You know what I can never seem to wrap my brain around? Fifth-century Christological controversies.

I remember, back in high school, when my English teacher said "Write what you know." That very day my friend Brian started work on "Marijuana: The Musical"

Who WAS the last person to get excommunicated? How often does it happen these days?

Today on the blog, Michael Taylor kicks off a new series spotlighting TAPA articles with his take on Duncan MacRae's "Capitoline Futures: The Location of Roman Futurity." classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/mik...

So, my wife went to the kids' elementary school for "career day" today to talk about being a lawyer. I just got this message:

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