No way! I'm excited to read when this comes out next year. My epic poetry class just read selections from your Metamorphoses translation last week and I loved it!

I'm preparing to begin a Classics MA program this next fall and am very interested in artifact conservation at the Getty Villa! What educational path did you take to get to where you are professionally? What opportunities are there for graduate students interested in this sort of work? Thank you!!

I just saw this in Milan the other weekend! The Duomo museum is fantastic, I highly recommend for anyone in the area.

Here's another artifact with writing, also from the Getty Villa. This pottery fragment has an Etruscan word, sutil, meaning 'for the grave'. Writing makes artifacts feel so personal and transports us back into the past in interesting ways. This word spoken by someone that long ago are with us still.

Check out this Greek vase at the Getty Villa. I'm so fascinated when art and artifacts meet writing. Labeled here for us is Hermes, but it has an interesting spelling and declension. Note the rough breathing for /h/, and the ending -ηνος: neither are expected when we're used to Attic forms.

Thank you for the recommendation! I appreciate you taking the time to share. This is what I'm looking for to read over the break.