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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 6h

Diritto e vino nel
Mediterranco antico.
Per un riesame di IG XII Supp. 2471

Lecture by
MARIA GRAZIA RIZZI. (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca)

Organised by INSTITUTO DE ESTUDIOS CLASICOS SOBRE LA SOCIEDAD Y LA POLÍTICA
"L U C I O A N N E O S É N E C A"
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 19h

Assistant Professor, Classics, College of Arts and Sciences job with University of Cincinnati | 37900439
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Assistant Professor, Classics, College of Arts and Sciences - Cincinnati, Ohio, United States job with University of Cincinnati | 37900439

Current UC employees must apply internally via SuccessFactors Next Lives at the University of Cincinnati Founded in 1819, the University of...

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 4d

Today we take a look at one of our favorites - and the oldest codex in Philadelphia! LJS 101 is a 9th and 11th century translation of Aristotle's De interpretatione (by Boethius) with some additional texts. #medievalsky

🔗: https://bit.ly/43ayh61

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 19h

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Colby College: Department of Classics
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 19h

(90) Why Plato Hated Homer | Greek Mythology Episode 3 - YouTube
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Why Plato Hated Homer | Greek Mythology Episode 3

YouTube video by The Rest Is History

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AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social · 16h

Back to speed with 56 new #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025.... Includes a glossed Valerius Maximus, the Alexandreis, 17th c poetry, Plautus, Decretals, Ovid, a 13th C Roman de Brut, and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 41 of 2025

A total of fifty-six manuscripts were digitized during the past week. In a statistical anomaly, two fonds, Barb.lat and Ott.lat, brought in the same number of manuscripts, twenty-six for each. The r...

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Christopher @christophicus.bsky.social · 14h

Bit of self-promotion: I have published a commentary on a selection of Martial's epigrams, so if you are a Latin teacher/instructor...or a fan of having Latin grammar and rhetorical devices analyzed...feel free to check it out.

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Where A Poet Might Rome: The Eternal City of Martial's Epigrams: Smith, Christopher: 9798269037523: Amazon.com: Books

Where A Poet Might Rome: The Eternal City of Martial's Epigrams [Smith, Christopher] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Where A Poet Might Rome: The Eternal City of Martial's Epigram...

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 4d

University of Liverpool in the global top 150 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/09/u...

University breaks into global top 150 in Times Higher Education World University Rankings - University of Liverpool News

University breaks into global top 150 in Times Higher Education World University Rankings

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Brepols @brepols.net · 6d

𝗡𝗼𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗲𝘁 𝗿𝗲́𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗚𝗿𝗲̀𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲
Tome 2 : Traductions de traductions de textes grecs et 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘪

Édité par Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas

#Antiquity #Greek #History #Philosophy #Literature #Classical #Translation #Philology

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 8d

'Had a book by Plato not bound my impulse, | the mournful bond of life I would have broken already' – Olympiodorus

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 18d

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Virgil's Aeneid: Ep. 1 - Lumen

Podcast Episode · The Classics Podcast · 17/09/2025 · 37m

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The Hellenic Society @hellenicsociety.bsky.social · 18d

New Euripides content just dropped (uploaded?) on our YouTube channel!

Dr Rebecca Laemmle, ‘Last Things in the latest Euripides’ is now online - as is Prof. Patrick Finglass, ‘The New Euripides: Context and Discontinuity’ ...

www.youtube.com/@HellenicSociety1879

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 24d

The Erich S. Gruen Prize | Society for Classical Studies
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The Erich S. Gruen Prize | Society for Classical Studies

On behalf of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), the Erich S. Gruen Prize Committee invites all graduate students in North America to enter the sixth annual competition for the best graduate rese...

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Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 25d

💥 Publication of 107 new inscriptions on Attic Inscriptions Online!

👉 New entries include all votives of artisans and workers, and boundary stones of the Athenian empire on Aigina.

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chris de Lisle and team!

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 28d

Based on feedback from applicants, reviewers and broader research community, the ERC Scientific Council decided to make changes in the 2026–27 calls for proposal for research funding.

More details from the ERC President 👉 europa.eu/!hP3WWF

What’s your take on this? Tell us! 👇

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 26d

Conference on Italian papyrus collections.
“Le collezioni di papiri in Italia: bilanci e prospettive”

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 26d

Euripides' Orestes in ancient Greek, performed by the Oxford Ancient Languages Society (2024)

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Euripides' Orestes

YouTube video by Oxford Ancient Languages Society

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 28d

Revel Coles, editor of several P.Oxy. vols, died on 12 September. A piece of amicitia papyrologorum goes with him. He published a hypothesis of Euripides' Alexandros and authored the Location List of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. A charisterion was offered to him in 2015: books.fupress.com/catalogue/ch...

Charisterion per Revel A. Coles

Questo volume, dedicato a Revel Coles (che per tanti anni ha lavorato alla collezione degli Oxyrhynchus Papyri di Oxford), contiene l’edizione di trenta testi di provenienza egiziana, appartenenti a ...

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 28d

Two Augurs by Jean-Léon Gérôme (c. 1824-1904), reproduced by Goupil & Cie (19th century) - The Historian's Hut
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Two Augurs by Jean-Léon Gérôme (c. 1824-1904), reproduced by Goupil & Cie (19th century) - The Historian's Hut

This artwork, depicting ancient Roman practitioners of divination, was originally created by Jean-Léon Gérôme (c. 1824-1904) and reproduced as a print by Goupil & Cie (19th century). Specifically, ...

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 28d

Josephine Crawley Quinn on why studying ancient languages

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The REAL Story Behind The Bronze Age Collapse | Aaron Bastani Meets Josephine Quinn

YouTube video by Novara Media

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · Sep 13

Classics and Ancient History at Liverpool ranked 8th in the UK

www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

The Guardian University Guide 2026 – the rankings

Find a course at one of the top universities in the country

www.theguardian.com

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · Sep 12

Patrick Finglass on the New Euripides @hellenicsociety.bsky.social

youtube.com/watch?v=WBSa...

Professor Patrick Finglass, ‘The New Euripides: Context and Discontinuity’

YouTube video by Hellenic Society

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · Sep 12

Round table on the Ezekiel Papyrus, with @sofiatorallas.bsky.social @rakimenides.bsky.social Eric White, Jill Unkel, Brent Nongbri, Georgios Boudalis and Roberta Mazza, today (12 Sep 2025) at 4:30 CET.
Program:
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Streaming:
www.youtube.com/live/BrZFg9-...
#papyrology

El papiro de Ezequiel, mesa redonda - Fundación Pastor

Mesa redonda sobre el papiro de Ezequiel. Hemos traído a importantes investigadores para iluminar la fascinante historia del códice, El papiro de Ezequiel, objeto de la exposición de la BNE.

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Roy Gibson @gibsonroyk.bsky.social · Apr 8

On Professors of Latin at Liverpool…
just published: … www.hcsjournal.org/ojs/index.ph...

Professors of Latin at the University of Liverpool 1884–1988: Philology, Hellenism and the Professionalisation of Latin at England’s Civic Universities in the Twentieth Century | History of ...

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Council of University Classical Departments @cucd.bsky.social · Sep 11

👏With huge thanks to @lcostantini89.bsky.social our annual CUCD statistics report is up at:

cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0...

📣Highlights include: overall increase in UG students, an increase in students taking Greek ab initio, and higher PGT student numbers! Read more for details.

cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk

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