Thomas Hendrickson
@thomashendrickson.bsky.social
Latin philology. Latin teaching/learning. Book history. Latin in the early modern era (and other eras).
Writing books.
November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Writing books.
Does anyone know: where do you go to complain about AI intrusions into Word?
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Does anyone know: where do you go to complain about AI intrusions into Word?
Every time I hear someone say a given "crisis" is really an "opportunity," I think of Littlefinger saying "Chaos is a ladder!"
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Every time I hear someone say a given "crisis" is really an "opportunity," I think of Littlefinger saying "Chaos is a ladder!"
Johannes Kepler (1608) describing what he thinks it would feel like to be launched into space. The Somnium should totally be taught in Latin classes.
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Johannes Kepler (1608) describing what he thinks it would feel like to be launched into space. The Somnium should totally be taught in Latin classes.
Do YOU have any Neo-Latin teaching materials?
Seriously, do you?
Seriously, do you?
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Do YOU have any Neo-Latin teaching materials?
Seriously, do you?
Seriously, do you?
Favorite library: Bibliotheca Incognita
October 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Favorite library: Bibliotheca Incognita
Sometimes, it is so so helpful going back to my notes.
Other times:
Other times:
October 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Sometimes, it is so so helpful going back to my notes.
Other times:
Other times:
Booklist found in a will from 837 CE. Kind of notable that the daughters are all given books (the sons too, though that's less notable).
October 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Booklist found in a will from 837 CE. Kind of notable that the daughters are all given books (the sons too, though that's less notable).
I've gotta say, it would be hard to live up to a name like Exsuperius.
(from Gallagher and Meade "Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity")
(from Gallagher and Meade "Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity")
October 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I've gotta say, it would be hard to live up to a name like Exsuperius.
(from Gallagher and Meade "Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity")
(from Gallagher and Meade "Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity")
In one of my classes we were just talking about the bit of Exodus where the Israelites were worshipping the golden calf. (There had been an allusion to it in a text we're reading.) Anyways, apropos of nothing, several different companies are now offering an AI Jesus:
September 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
In one of my classes we were just talking about the bit of Exodus where the Israelites were worshipping the golden calf. (There had been an allusion to it in a text we're reading.) Anyways, apropos of nothing, several different companies are now offering an AI Jesus:
Digital Neo-Latin Studies conference-- registration deadline is tomorrow.
September 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Digital Neo-Latin Studies conference-- registration deadline is tomorrow.
Galen's medical theories may be out of date, but it turns out that not much has changed about academic writing.
(-from "On the Order of my Books" trans. Singer)
(-from "On the Order of my Books" trans. Singer)
September 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Galen's medical theories may be out of date, but it turns out that not much has changed about academic writing.
(-from "On the Order of my Books" trans. Singer)
(-from "On the Order of my Books" trans. Singer)
"Anything you can find of Homer, Menander, Euripides, Aristophanes...."
-an apparent wish-list from third-century Egypt
PSI.Laur.inv.19662v (Images from R. Otranto "Antiche liste di libri su papiro")
-an apparent wish-list from third-century Egypt
PSI.Laur.inv.19662v (Images from R. Otranto "Antiche liste di libri su papiro")
September 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"Anything you can find of Homer, Menander, Euripides, Aristophanes...."
-an apparent wish-list from third-century Egypt
PSI.Laur.inv.19662v (Images from R. Otranto "Antiche liste di libri su papiro")
-an apparent wish-list from third-century Egypt
PSI.Laur.inv.19662v (Images from R. Otranto "Antiche liste di libri su papiro")
Booklist for the 10th century library at Bobbio.
Among the various categories: "Books We Have But Can't Find" (de libris quos non reperimus sed habemus)
Among the various categories: "Books We Have But Can't Find" (de libris quos non reperimus sed habemus)
September 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Booklist for the 10th century library at Bobbio.
Among the various categories: "Books We Have But Can't Find" (de libris quos non reperimus sed habemus)
Among the various categories: "Books We Have But Can't Find" (de libris quos non reperimus sed habemus)
(rubbing my greedy little hands together)
September 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
(rubbing my greedy little hands together)
Happy Birthday to Claudia Severa!
Born on this day in the late first century CE. She wrote a birthday invitation to her friend, Sulpicia Lepidina, which survives among the Vindolanda tablets.
#classicssky
Born on this day in the late first century CE. She wrote a birthday invitation to her friend, Sulpicia Lepidina, which survives among the Vindolanda tablets.
#classicssky
September 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Happy Birthday to Claudia Severa!
Born on this day in the late first century CE. She wrote a birthday invitation to her friend, Sulpicia Lepidina, which survives among the Vindolanda tablets.
#classicssky
Born on this day in the late first century CE. She wrote a birthday invitation to her friend, Sulpicia Lepidina, which survives among the Vindolanda tablets.
#classicssky
Favorite entry in the 9th-century catalogue of the library at Bobbio: "some Scottish (Irish?) book translated into Latin" (librum quendam Latine Scotaicae linguae)
September 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Favorite entry in the 9th-century catalogue of the library at Bobbio: "some Scottish (Irish?) book translated into Latin" (librum quendam Latine Scotaicae linguae)
Well, in a concession to aging, I have made a new addition to my dictionary-lectern. A magnifying glass.
September 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Well, in a concession to aging, I have made a new addition to my dictionary-lectern. A magnifying glass.
"It would not be hard to set up a tent, he thought."
Me, at the start of any writing project.
Me, at the start of any writing project.
August 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"It would not be hard to set up a tent, he thought."
Me, at the start of any writing project.
Me, at the start of any writing project.
Really interesting piece on Suetonius. Did he write a "De Viris Illustribus"? Maybe not? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
August 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Really interesting piece on Suetonius. Did he write a "De Viris Illustribus"? Maybe not? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
(Reading the wikipedia page for "Cornelia, mother of the gracchi"):
Rejected Ptolemy, uh huh, scolded Gaius, sure..."Cornelia also serves as the feminine personification of the state of Ohio" wtf????
Rejected Ptolemy, uh huh, scolded Gaius, sure..."Cornelia also serves as the feminine personification of the state of Ohio" wtf????
August 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
(Reading the wikipedia page for "Cornelia, mother of the gracchi"):
Rejected Ptolemy, uh huh, scolded Gaius, sure..."Cornelia also serves as the feminine personification of the state of Ohio" wtf????
Rejected Ptolemy, uh huh, scolded Gaius, sure..."Cornelia also serves as the feminine personification of the state of Ohio" wtf????
I first read Lucretius in the doorstop edition of Leonard/Smith. Looking back at it now, I still love the look/feel of the book, but those notes are.... a little digressive? (Spenser's Fairie Queene???)
August 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I first read Lucretius in the doorstop edition of Leonard/Smith. Looking back at it now, I still love the look/feel of the book, but those notes are.... a little digressive? (Spenser's Fairie Queene???)
Looking forward to new titles in the Experrecta Series (student editions of Latin texts written by women):
August 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Looking forward to new titles in the Experrecta Series (student editions of Latin texts written by women):
The road to fig compote:
August 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The road to fig compote:
Figs ripening right up...
August 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Figs ripening right up...