So great to see this published! Just in time for the holidays with a 40% discount! 😆 Seriously, though, it was such a pleasure to work with my co-editor @wehutt.bsky.social and our fabulous contributors. Check it out! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

A reminder: we are very interested in having *school teachers* apply for the Classical Summer School, in addition to graduate students. Please pass this along to any teachers you may know!

In case anyone is interested in my work here at the American Academy in Rome...

At a glance, it looks like about 75% of my published work, everything from recent publications and a monograph to some obscure academic reviews from 25 years ago. I might not even hate the "fair use" of this material, to be honest. But helping to line the pockets of Mark Zuckerberg?? HELL NO.

Please follow @vergiliansociety.bsky.social new account!

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. Aen. 1.203. Location: Willowdale Estate, Topsfield, Mass. #classics #vergil #latin #literaryquotations

TODAY! Approaches to the Roman Environment workshop in the American Academy in Rome at 2pm GMT/3pm CET. Also a Zoom connection! Register via aarome.org/events/appro...

Torino bound! Super excited to share my work with the students and colleagues of the Università di Torino!

visited #CentraleMontemartini yesterday and was totally floored when I encountered this life-size #tropaeum. My article on the tropaeum in the #Aeneid will come out in a few months. Looking at it, I was more than ever convinced that these monuments marked the trauma of war as well as victory.

Incredible visit to #Palestrina. Sharing a lovely detail from the amazing #Nilemosaic; I'm obsessed with the two #obelisks outside the temple and the #Nilometer!

Classics peeps, please consider sending an abstract for the 2026 SCS Vergilian Society panel. Deadline is fast approaching!

have been reading Plutarch's de Iside et Osiride the last couple of weeks: today I had fun exploring images of the persea tree, sacred to Isis. Here's an image from the Papyrus of Ani, Book of the Dead

SS Quattro Coronati, St Sylvester chapel: 13th c. frescoes depicting St Sylvester curing Constantine from leprosy. Loved these frescoes so much.

Dear friends, please consider submitting an abstract for this summer's Symposium Cumanum, Vergil and the Greeks, at the Villa Vergiliana June 25-28, 2025!

so sick of getting bombarded with emails from companies that want me to give them my expertise for free... they would never dare ask a lawyer or a financial consultant without paying them. The same respect is not afforded to professors so I responded, 'show me the money.' #notworkingforfree

William & Mary News did a really nice story about what I will be doing in Rome next year news.wm.edu/2024/04/25/w...

Congratulations to all the 2024-25 Rome Prize winners -- and especially to @lilywilli.bsky.social!

Happy to see this come out today bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2023/2023.12...

Please submit a proposal for the 2025 Symposium Cumanum! Information as to how to do this below. Please share and spread the word! You all need to spend 3-4 days in Italy, right?

so I've got to tell you that the best reader of an audiobook I have ever listened to is Dan Stevens reading Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. I mean I knew he was a terrific actor, but man, does he bring that book to life. Found out he has also done the Fitzgerald Odyssey. Wow.

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it! I know I don't post much on this platform (or any platform), but I am truly thankful for the opportunity to be in touch with colleagues and friends!

Friends of Modern Greek, please sign this petition to help save Modern Greek at Macquarie University! www.change.org/p/save-moder...

anyone doing November #AcWriMo? I've started, but I would sure love some company! Today I'm reading an article and taking good notes, and incorporating into my paper.

does anyone else find it hard to write a book review without adopting the same old clichéd language? I'm tired of it but don't see a way out!

"He had just learned about Platonic forms, and was convinced scones were the Platonic ideal of bread."

Tomorrow! Come one, come all! A lecture in honor of my great colleague, John Oakley!