Janelle Peters

The NAPS program has been posted. I am chairing and presenting. custom.cvent.com/DADF18846EBF...

Sign the Petition Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

University of Iowa Classics major is in trouble:

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New discovery: During excavations in Cologne, archaeologists have unearthed a lararium, a household shrine, dating back to the 2nd century. This discovery is considered unique north of the Alps. Similar examples were found in Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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Velociraptors had feathers

Call for Papers: Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense LXXV: Translating the Scriptures, July 15 - 18, 2026, Leuven. Abstracts due March 31, 2026. theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

The lost, found and lost again Sappho Brothers Poem papyrus Screenshot of the Brothers Poem papyrus in the box made for the Christie’s London sale: A couple of weeks ago I gave an online talk for the Paideia Institute and realized that many are unawar…

Where is the Sappho Brothers Poem papyrus? We only know that it is LOST. Again. #Sappho #classics #papyrology
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Ps 60,7 according to an ancient and a modern scribe.
#PAM41582
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As a philosopher and legal scholar, now professor emeritus, with over 35 years as academic, it is both sickening and wholly unsurprising that these high-powered men of the academy had no problem consorting with a known pedophile and trafficker of children for prostitution.

Architectural plan of temple showing 3 large cellae, a large porch with hexastyle facade, and surrounding colonnade.

Teaching archaic Rome at the moment and refamiliarizing myself with the evidence for the Capitoline temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus.

Jaw-dropping to me that they managed a structure of this size (at this location!) in the late 6th c. BCE. By far the largest in central Italy at the time.

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View of the Scolacium Archeological Park with the Roman theater in the foreground, Roman forum to the center-left and the Ionian Sea in the distance. source: https://www.calabriatheotheritaly.com/scolacium-archeological-park-calabria/

Manuscript frontispiece showing Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus seated holding an open book with writing and putting his right hand forward with index finger extended. Above him is written Cassiodorus Senator" fol. 2r of Leiden ms. vul. 46 (Gesta Theodorici), Manuscript on vellum. 186 ff., 220 x 125 mm. Fulda, dated 1176/7 source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiodorus#/media/File:Gesta_Theodorici_-_Flavius_Magnus_Aurelius_Cassiodorus_(c_485_-_c_580).jpg

Founded in the 7th or 6th c. BCE, Skylletion was a Greek colony. It became part of Rome's empire in the 2nd c. BCE when a group of Roman colonists settled there, and for a period it was called Minervium. It was the birthplace of the 6th c. author, politician, and monastic entrepreneur Cassiodorus.

I always liked this one.

Atrium spolia (Ephesus, Turkey) The so-called "double church" at Ephesus is believed to be the church where the Council of Ephesus was held in 431. The Council proclaimed Mary as "Theotokos," or God-bearer/Mother of God. Though it i...

Greek and Latin inscriptions from the #Roman era used for the pavement of the atrium of the so-called "double church" at #Ephesus, known as the Church of Mary, which dates to the 5th c. It may have been the site of 431 Council of Ephesus.

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#archaeology
#spolia

Rachel Armitage · Diary: Brass Bands Many brass bands were started by factory owners in the belief that music would give their workers purpose, strengthen...

‘Many bands were started by factory owners in the belief that music would give their workers purpose, strengthen social bonds and discourage violence and disorder.’

Rachel Armitage on the competitive brass band scene.

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Postdoc Position: Early Christian Studies | Radboud University Do you want to work as a Postdoctoral Researcher: Early Christian Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies? Check our vacancy!

Please share widely! 3-year Postdoc in Early Christian Studies. Deadline: 8 March. Let me know if you have any questions or want to nominate a colleague.

A Gate to Heaven - Reading Religion Etienne Nodet proposes that Qumran functioned as a pilgrimage site for the Essenes from the 1st century BC onwards. Nodet suggests that the Essenes were scat...

My review of Étienne Nodet's *A Gate to Heaven: Essenes, Qumran: Origins and Heirs* is now live on @readingreligion.bsky.social. Check it out and let me know what think!

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I went to see one of my research environments.

The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae project (125-year-long complete Latin language dictionary effort) is advertising to hire a full-stack developer in Munich (Django/React): job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...

Walter Brueggemann (1933-2025) Walter Brueggemann was born in 1933 in Tilden, Nebraska, the son of a German Evangelical pastor whose legacy left a lasting imprint on his approach to scripture and ministry. He attended Elmhurst C…

Walter Brueggemann (1933-2025) claudemariottini.com/2026/01/06/w...

Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2026 - 2027 at University of Cambridge Searching for an academic job? Explore this Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2026 - 2027 opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Apply to be the 2026-7 Munby Fellow in bibliography and history of the book @theul.bsky.social

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Adam Smyth | Like No One in Existence In September, I invited people to record themselves reading a short passage from an English translation of Rousseau’s...

Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) asked people to film themselves reading Rousseau’s Confessions:

‘The idea of lots of people repeating the same claim to singularity seemed interesting.’

Read and watch a clip on the blog:

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The “Early Christian Letters” chapter arrived in the mail.

Inside the Secret Soundscape of Hawaii’s Rarest Seal Researchers uncover 20 new underwater calls from Hawaii’s endangered monk seals.

The newest episode of the pod dives into how scientists are learning to decode the calls of the endangered Hawaiian monk seals

Landmark cafe that launched groundbreaking Bay Area coffee founders has shuttered after two decades A Berkeley hub for coffee, art exhibitions and performances, has closed after 19 years. The coffee shop had offered a space for Bay Area artists of color to display their work.

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Too bad. I liked this shop and they had blue bottle coffee when it was roasted in Oakland and not over priced

Fresco of a facade of a Roman temple. A short flight of steps leading up to a portico with Corinthian columns. Between the double colannade is a decorated wooden barrier with lattice work and a spiky top. The wooden doors to the temple are closed. The pediment contains a painted relief. In front of the steps is an ornate altar on which offerings burn.

Possibly the most sublime Roman fresco of a temple.
The architectural detail of the spiky-topped wooden barrier, the painted relief in the pediment, & the offerings burning on the altar; it’s a symphony of observations.
Archaeological Museum of Capri (no provenance)
#FrescoFriday

My NAPS proposal on clothing in Augustine’s Confessions was accepted.

Finally, some support!

i’m definitely using this one.

Noah and his longship ark

BL Cotton MS Claudius B IV; Old English Hexateuch; f.14r

Earthquake rupture velocity and stress drop interaction in the Campi Flegrei volcanic caldera - Communications Earth & Environment Earthquakes at Italy’s Campi Flegrei caldera show unusually low seismic radiation efficiency, with most energy dissipated through off-fault damage and frictional processes, according to a time-domain-...

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