New issue of American Journal of Philology Vol. 146, No. 3 Fall (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55709 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social #openaccess

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The latest Pasts Imperfect has @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social taking on ancient & medieval monsters 🐉. Then, a new book on art from ancient India & the Greco-Roman world, Barnard profs defend free speech, ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & Joy Connolly eulogizes Michael Putnam.

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay – 22 September #Ovid “Memnona si mater, mater ploravit Achillem, et tangunt magnas tristia fata deas, flebilis indignos, Elegia, solve capillos! a, nimis ex vero nunc tibi nomen erit!— ille tui vates operis, tua fama, Tibullus...

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", a senate inquiry has found.

Troy in Melbourne www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

📜Australasian #Ovidian Society upcoming meeting Join us next week, & check out the full program on our flyer!✨ DM me to join the mailing list 📌I'll be presenting this month on #Ovid Heroides 7 🗓15 Sept, 5PM AEST 📖 The Dido Project: Creative Research Practice as Critical Resistance

Introducing... The Roman Mourner - a comprehensive analysis of the customs and rituals associated with mourning and death in ancient Rome. Find out more: bit.ly/4lMdRI6

Given the news about Melvyn Bragg stepping down from In Our Time, now might be a good time to share this list (thanks to Paul Cartledge for the reminder!) keenerclassics.wordpress.com/classics-in-...

Here we go, gang! All 12 books of The Aeneid in 27 minutes. In one take. If I managed it. Let's find out... Tune into BBC Radio 4 at 9am today 😬 Catch up any time on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Now out - open access - in Classical Review. Thanks, @thedancinggrad.bsky.social for taking this one on.

Well. It’s official. You can now submit your proposals to the New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Religion book series, published by Edinburgh University Press! #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay – 27 August #Ovid “fallat, et in tenues evanidus exeat auras, perque gradus molles emoriatur amor. sed modo dilectam scelus est odisse puellam: exitus ingeniis convenit iste feris. non curare sat est: odio qui finit amorem,...

I have one PhD scholarship attached to my Ancient Monarchy Future Fellowship project for a candidate working on ancient monarchy and religion, preferably with a comparative element. $38,154 stipend for domestic & international candidates. Deadline 30 September. study.anu.edu.au/scholarships...

Why Monarchy Endures: Answers from the Ancient Mediterranean World PhD Scholarship | The Australian National University study.anu.edu.au/scholarships...

I'm doing my annual update to my list of linguistics and language podcasts: www.superlinguo.com/post/1584480... If you listen to anything that's not already on the list, please let me know about it! (I wait until something has 5 episode before adding it to the list)

Today's new arrival, and it's hot stuff!

A Trump administration tariff deadline is creating "chaos" for postal networks and retailers globally, as low-value parcels will be slugged with import duties from next week.

Who’s up for a bit of Catullus? With @daisydunn.bsky.social and Llewelyn Morgan…? That’s tomorrow sorted, then! ✍️📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay – 18 August #Ovid “dure vir, inposito tenerae custode puellae nil agis; ingenio est quaeque tuenda suo. siqua metu dempto casta est, ea denique casta est; quae, quia non liceat, non facit, illa facit! ut iam servaris bene corpus, adultera mens est;...

When thinking about the Roman Empire, have you thought about how they conquered their own people? "Children of Mars" provides a fresh look at the origins of the Romans before they became masters of the Mediterranean: oxford.ly/4mfNoCH

Lecturer in Greek Literature, University of Queensland, Australia (Deadline September 11) - The Classical Association of Canada www.cac-scec.ca/2025/08/gkli...

Aug 15 online Australasian Ovidian Society: Prof. Peter Davis (Adelaide), A new commentary on #Ovid's #Heroides. Zoom - email [email protected] to join mailing list.

"Earning a humanities degree was not only life changing, in terms of opening up a world of knowledge otherwise beyond my reach, it also turns out to have been enormously productive – for me and many, many people around me" Thank you Tim Winton for supporting the call to repeal the JRG policy.

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay – 25 July #Ovid “ille, fatigata praebendo monstra noverca qui meruit caelum, quod prior ipse tulit, inter Ioniacas calathum tenuisse puellas creditur, et lanas excoluisse rudes. paruit imperio dominae Tirynthius heros:...

It may not be all bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/s...

Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE–300 CE | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/book/60683

“Australian universities should not be rewarded financially for narrowing the scope of HASS in a manner that undermines the national interest”.

Registrations are still open for AMPHORAE XIX at The University if Adelaide this year! Program to be announced soon. amphorae-conference.weebly.com

Strong statement from the Australian Academy of Humanities on the troubling proposal to cut the excellent Humanities Research Centre at the ANU among other cuts. Decimating humanities research and teaching is a cultural and intellectual disaster. humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

New issue of American Journal of Philology Vol. 146, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55085 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @platanoclassics.bsky.social

This beautiful new metrical verse translation of the Aeneid, by Scott McGill and Susannah Wright, with introduction by me, will be available in August. You can pre-order now!

My new book is coming soon from Yale University Press: "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors" yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

I've been remiss in not announcing that this is out in paperback now! Much more affordable, if you want to ask your library to pick it up, or even get it yourself. I'm very proud of the work of all the contributors to this book, and it continues to be ever more relevant (unfortunately!).

Applications now open for 2 PhD scholarships at ANU as part of my ARC Future Fellowship Project, 'Why Monarchy Endures: Answers from the Ancient Mediterranean World'. Open to both Aus & international candidates. Informal inquiries to brainstorm topics very welcome! study.anu.edu.au/scholarships...

I'm in a group of youth cancer patients who is running a Biggest Morning Tea Sun 29th June 10am-12pm at Goodwood Community Centre, Adelaide - if cancer has touched your life, join us for a day of community, fundraising, delicious cakes and storytelling! Rsvp: events.humanitix.com/youth-cancer...

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay – 12 June #Ovid “Memnona si mater, mater ploravit Achillem, et tangunt magnas tristia fata deas, flebilis indignos, Elegia, solve capillos! a, nimis ex vero nunc tibi nomen erit!— ille tui vates operis, tua fama, Tibullus...

The Next Ovid(s) | ScuolaNormaleSuperiore www.sns.it/it/evento/ne...

📜Australasian #Ovidian Society upcoming meetings #AOS We’ve got lots of exciting works in progress, check out the full program on our flyer!✨ 📌Don't miss our July meeting with Dr Rebecca Menmuir (University of Oxford) 🗓18 July, 4PM AEST 📖 #Ovid & his exile in the Middle Ages #Classics #Ancient

COVER REVEAL DAY Many thanks to @oxfordacademic.bsky.social ‘s production team for working with me on the design, & especially to @drchristinah.bsky.social for her skillful guidance in improving it substantially.

Extended deadline for #AMPHORAE XIX in Adelaide, South Australia & online - #CFP now closing June 8th - see amphorae-conference.weebly.com

They fought to defend their land, families and culture, and drove the colonial powers to a state of panic, losing everything in the process. But Tasmanian Aboriginal resistance warriors still have no physical recognition in the state.

Lucrezio e il criterio di verità epicureo go.shr.lc/3HdxsBy #freeaccess

Classical Review is now reviewing digital projects as well as books - my thoughts on the transition www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Daniel Mendelsohn on the Odyssey www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...

New issue of Classical World Vol. 118, No. 3 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54906 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social