Marco Perale
@mperale.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Liverpool. Editor, The Classical Quarterly. Trustee of the Hellenic Society. Working class academic.
Nicholas Horsfall on Virgil, Aeneid 6.87 et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno (2013)
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Nicholas Horsfall on Virgil, Aeneid 6.87 et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno (2013)
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The Weeping Rock on Mt Sipylus
"Somewhere in the rocks in Sipylus, among the lonely mountains, where, men say, goddess nymphs lie down to sleep, the ones that dance beside the Achelous, there Niobe, though turned to stone, still broods, thinking of the pain the gods have given her." Iliad 4.614-7
"Somewhere in the rocks in Sipylus, among the lonely mountains, where, men say, goddess nymphs lie down to sleep, the ones that dance beside the Achelous, there Niobe, though turned to stone, still broods, thinking of the pain the gods have given her." Iliad 4.614-7
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The Weeping Rock on Mt Sipylus
"Somewhere in the rocks in Sipylus, among the lonely mountains, where, men say, goddess nymphs lie down to sleep, the ones that dance beside the Achelous, there Niobe, though turned to stone, still broods, thinking of the pain the gods have given her." Iliad 4.614-7
"Somewhere in the rocks in Sipylus, among the lonely mountains, where, men say, goddess nymphs lie down to sleep, the ones that dance beside the Achelous, there Niobe, though turned to stone, still broods, thinking of the pain the gods have given her." Iliad 4.614-7
Become a member of @hellenicsociety.bsky.social and get full access to HARL, one of the most spectacular Classics libraries in the world! Join for as little as £69 p/y (£30 for students) and you will also get online access to JHS & AR, plus a print copy of ARGO www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/membership/
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Become a member of @hellenicsociety.bsky.social and get full access to HARL, one of the most spectacular Classics libraries in the world! Join for as little as £69 p/y (£30 for students) and you will also get online access to JHS & AR, plus a print copy of ARGO www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/membership/
Book launch. First Catalan translation of Longinus.
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Book launch. First Catalan translation of Longinus.
Does anybody know who is the author of this Lexicon Thucydidaeum, published in 1824?
archive.org/details/lexi...
archive.org/details/lexi...
November 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Does anybody know who is the author of this Lexicon Thucydidaeum, published in 1824?
archive.org/details/lexi...
archive.org/details/lexi...
Illustration of Polyphemus and Galatea in Idyll 6 from W.R.Flint, Theocritus, Bion and Moschus (1922)
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idyll_VI
Text: www.theoi.com/Text/Theocri...
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idyll_VI
Text: www.theoi.com/Text/Theocri...
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Illustration of Polyphemus and Galatea in Idyll 6 from W.R.Flint, Theocritus, Bion and Moschus (1922)
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idyll_VI
Text: www.theoi.com/Text/Theocri...
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idyll_VI
Text: www.theoi.com/Text/Theocri...
Illustration of Simaetha in Theocritus' Idyll 2, from H.A. Metcalf’s The Idylls and Epigrams of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus (1905)
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%2...
Text: www.theoi.com/Text/Theocri...
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%2...
Text: www.theoi.com/Text/Theocri...
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Illustration of Simaetha in Theocritus' Idyll 2, from H.A. Metcalf’s The Idylls and Epigrams of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus (1905)
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%2...
Text: www.theoi.com/Text/Theocri...
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%2...
Text: www.theoi.com/Text/Theocri...
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
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
October 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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
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
'Had a book by Plato not bound my impulse, | the mournful bond of life I would have broken already' – Olympiodorus
archive.org/details/epig...
archive.org/details/epig...
October 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
'Had a book by Plato not bound my impulse, | the mournful bond of life I would have broken already' – Olympiodorus
archive.org/details/epig...
archive.org/details/epig...
Conference on Italian papyrus collections.
“Le collezioni di papiri in Italia: bilanci e prospettive”
“Le collezioni di papiri in Italia: bilanci e prospettive”
September 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Conference on Italian papyrus collections.
“Le collezioni di papiri in Italia: bilanci e prospettive”
“Le collezioni di papiri in Italia: bilanci e prospettive”
You will rarely see an article by a 19th c. artist in a modern scientific journal:
Antonio Canova, Conghiettura Sopra L'Aggruppamento De'Colossi Di Monte Cavallo, GGA 1802.
Features a reconstruction of the original placement of the Horse Tamers in Rome
gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN174762...
Antonio Canova, Conghiettura Sopra L'Aggruppamento De'Colossi Di Monte Cavallo, GGA 1802.
Features a reconstruction of the original placement of the Horse Tamers in Rome
gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN174762...
September 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
You will rarely see an article by a 19th c. artist in a modern scientific journal:
Antonio Canova, Conghiettura Sopra L'Aggruppamento De'Colossi Di Monte Cavallo, GGA 1802.
Features a reconstruction of the original placement of the Horse Tamers in Rome
gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN174762...
Antonio Canova, Conghiettura Sopra L'Aggruppamento De'Colossi Di Monte Cavallo, GGA 1802.
Features a reconstruction of the original placement of the Horse Tamers in Rome
gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN174762...
AI getting Aristonicus completely wrong.
September 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
AI getting Aristonicus completely wrong.
Farting in 2018 vs farting in 1925. Diogenes Laertius 6.94.
September 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Farting in 2018 vs farting in 1925. Diogenes Laertius 6.94.
New edition with commentary of Callimachus’ Apotheosis of Arsinoe available @joliheroics.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
New edition with commentary of Callimachus’ Apotheosis of Arsinoe available @joliheroics.bsky.social
New Knights, now available @joliheroics.bsky.social ! #aristophanes
September 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
New Knights, now available @joliheroics.bsky.social ! #aristophanes
Copy of Poetae Bucolici et Didactici (1862) at @joliheroics.bsky.social Owned by Herbert Wilson Greene, a student at Magdalen College Oxford when he acquired it in 1902; then by Stefan Weinstock, who must have got it some time after 1940, when he first moved to Oxford www.jstor.org/stable/27685...
September 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Copy of Poetae Bucolici et Didactici (1862) at @joliheroics.bsky.social Owned by Herbert Wilson Greene, a student at Magdalen College Oxford when he acquired it in 1902; then by Stefan Weinstock, who must have got it some time after 1940, when he first moved to Oxford www.jstor.org/stable/27685...
K.J. Dover, Ancient Greek Literature, introduction. The painter in question is Karel Appel.
August 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
K.J. Dover, Ancient Greek Literature, introduction. The painter in question is Karel Appel.
Out of print. Got it in Skoob in London for a third of the price it is sold for at AbeBooks and a fourth of the price at Amazon. Pretty chuffed.
August 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Out of print. Got it in Skoob in London for a third of the price it is sold for at AbeBooks and a fourth of the price at Amazon. Pretty chuffed.
Greek manuscript of Hesiod's Theogony with commentaries added by John Tzetzes, 16th century copy. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tz...
August 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Greek manuscript of Hesiod's Theogony with commentaries added by John Tzetzes, 16th century copy. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tz...
Many thanks to whoever came and listened to my paper at the XXXIth Congress of #Papyrology in Cologne yesterday, and provided valuable feedback!
August 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Many thanks to whoever came and listened to my paper at the XXXIth Congress of #Papyrology in Cologne yesterday, and provided valuable feedback!
@hellenicsociety.bsky.social GRANTS
Guidelines and applications forms for:
- Grants to Institutions, Schools, Summer Schools and Individuals (deadline 1 October 2025)
- Regional Conference Grants (1 November 2025)
- Undergraduate Essay Competition (7 January 2026)
www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/grants/
Guidelines and applications forms for:
- Grants to Institutions, Schools, Summer Schools and Individuals (deadline 1 October 2025)
- Regional Conference Grants (1 November 2025)
- Undergraduate Essay Competition (7 January 2026)
www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/grants/
July 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
@hellenicsociety.bsky.social GRANTS
Guidelines and applications forms for:
- Grants to Institutions, Schools, Summer Schools and Individuals (deadline 1 October 2025)
- Regional Conference Grants (1 November 2025)
- Undergraduate Essay Competition (7 January 2026)
www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/grants/
Guidelines and applications forms for:
- Grants to Institutions, Schools, Summer Schools and Individuals (deadline 1 October 2025)
- Regional Conference Grants (1 November 2025)
- Undergraduate Essay Competition (7 January 2026)
www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/grants/
LESSONS FROM THE PAST
UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
@livancworlds.bsky.social, in partnership with Liverpool's ICRS and @victoriagallery.bsky.social, invite submissions for the conference “Lessons from the Past: UN Sustainability Goals” to be held 23-4 Mar 2026
lessonsfromthepast.info
UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
@livancworlds.bsky.social, in partnership with Liverpool's ICRS and @victoriagallery.bsky.social, invite submissions for the conference “Lessons from the Past: UN Sustainability Goals” to be held 23-4 Mar 2026
lessonsfromthepast.info
July 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
LESSONS FROM THE PAST
UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
@livancworlds.bsky.social, in partnership with Liverpool's ICRS and @victoriagallery.bsky.social, invite submissions for the conference “Lessons from the Past: UN Sustainability Goals” to be held 23-4 Mar 2026
lessonsfromthepast.info
UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
@livancworlds.bsky.social, in partnership with Liverpool's ICRS and @victoriagallery.bsky.social, invite submissions for the conference “Lessons from the Past: UN Sustainability Goals” to be held 23-4 Mar 2026
lessonsfromthepast.info
COLOUR, TEXTURE AND SOUND: EXPERIENCING THE ANCIENT WORLD
organised by The Classical Collections Network, in partnership with the Hellenic Society and the Great North Museum: Hancock
Friday 19 September 2025
@hellenicsociety.bsky.social
organised by The Classical Collections Network, in partnership with the Hellenic Society and the Great North Museum: Hancock
Friday 19 September 2025
@hellenicsociety.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
COLOUR, TEXTURE AND SOUND: EXPERIENCING THE ANCIENT WORLD
organised by The Classical Collections Network, in partnership with the Hellenic Society and the Great North Museum: Hancock
Friday 19 September 2025
@hellenicsociety.bsky.social
organised by The Classical Collections Network, in partnership with the Hellenic Society and the Great North Museum: Hancock
Friday 19 September 2025
@hellenicsociety.bsky.social
Great turnout yesterday at the FIEC Congress for our New Anonymous Hexameters from Oxyrhynchus session! Thank you to all who contributed to the discussion and the organizers. Pictured below: The impressive Aula Leopoldina at the University of Wrocław.
July 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Great turnout yesterday at the FIEC Congress for our New Anonymous Hexameters from Oxyrhynchus session! Thank you to all who contributed to the discussion and the organizers. Pictured below: The impressive Aula Leopoldina at the University of Wrocław.