Statue base of Cornelia, self-styled(?) "Mater Gracchorum."
(CIL VI.31610=ILS 68=ILLRP 336)
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Statue base of Cornelia, self-styled(?) "Mater Gracchorum."
(CIL VI.31610=ILS 68=ILLRP 336)
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What if the mechanical Turk was also a peeping Tom.
Or, as the Ancients called it, a sylvan gymnodromadation.
Just took the kids fishing for the first time.
I can't say this in a way that's not a dad joke, but: they are HOOKED!
It makes me think of that stanford communications prof who got busted using an LLM to write a court filing. (He was an expert witness.) He later said to the judge that he did it to "enhance the quality and efficiency of (his) workflow."
Do it!
I know how silly this is going to sound in 2026, in T***p's America, but: Surely, this can't be legal?
"I forbid you absolutely from learning the (Latin) pronunciation of the French...he who speaks in such a way earns himself the reputation of a poltroon."
Sharing for a colleague:
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Me (in a draft paper): "Surely only a fraction of Roman society was literate."
Student providing feedback: "This statement is meaningless. Anything less than 100% is a fraction."
Lol, harsh but fair!
The Greatest Debate? Move over, Lincoln-Douglas! Here comes the 1409 Arts Quodlibet at the University of Prague! (open access)
They say it like it's a bad thing?
Downloading the CSEL volumes from the publisher website. Some very clever thinking going on over there in Vienna.
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All the CSEL volumes prior to 2010 now available in PDF online.
This is really going to bring the CSEL series right to the front of everyone's minds. Someone over there is being very clever.
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Is there a term for this? A Madison's Goose-Egg?
Does anyone know whether digital volumes of Handes Amsorya, the monthly review in Armenian of the Mechitarists are accessible anywhere online? I'm looking for N. Akinian, Die Reden des Bischofs Eusebius von Emesa, in Handes Amsorya 70 (1956), 71 (1957) and 72 (1958).
Well now you've got ME wondering how Oedipus Rex tries to justify the ways of god to man!
Thanks-- this is super helpful!
Glorious!
For the hive: anyone happen to know how to find a photo (if one exists) of IG II2 1099 (= ILS 7784 = CIL III 12283 etc etc)?
It's the letter of Plotina Augusta to Hadrian on the Epicureans.
A 32-page article putting forward a one-word conjecture on the text of Cornelius Nepos?
I'll bite.
📣 Publication alert 📣
The 2025 volume of HL is out. You can access the OA volume through the link below. It features a thematic section on ‘Lovanium’ in the frame of the university’s sexcentenary alongside regular articles spanning 6 centuries of Neolatinitas.
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Thoughtful, constructive peer-review is really worth its weight in gold.
Read Nabataean!
Yes, soon enough AI will be writing the papers, and indeed peer-reviewing them, and in any case they'll only be read by other AI systems writing other papers.
With any luck, none of us will ever have to think or learn again!
Well, our tiny open-access, non-profit publishing house finally shelled for a website that doesn't look like I made it in five minutes on wordpress: pixeliapublishing.org
Me too-- I'm always just floored by what students can do when they feel ownership over a project.
I sometimes co-edit Latin texts with students.
Students write the commentary on the Latin text (which I then edit), and I write the volume intro (which the students then edit). Tbh, reading their feedback is always my favorite parts of the project.