Dickinson College Commentaries: digital commentaries on classical texts. Chris Francese, project director, tweeting.
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Want!!
Jun 12
Tusculans OCT now out, complete with 90-page critical commentary. Big day for Ciceronians
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Jun 12
Technical term used eight times in the first paragraph without definition. Gotta love academic writing.
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Jun 10
The Honest Case for the Humanities open.substack.com/pub/napini… N. Angel Pinillos says humanistic skills will be more in demand in the AI future. Great article throughout. Warning, humanities teachers who sniff at the word "skills" will not like it.
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This is well-written, but a bit like neglecting a neighborhood park and then complaining that it attracts undesirables. Professional Classicists should engage in the platform rather than hiding on Bluesky.
Jun 4
One might expect this community of untutored but enthusiastic fans of Greek and Roman history and culture to have rejoiced at the chance provided by social media to access specialist scholars and their expertise directly. Quite to the contrary.
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Out now! Kelly’s Homer: Iliad Book XXIII | An up-to-date commentary aimed at undergraduates and graduate students, focusing on language, meter, style, and literary interpretation.
Find out more: ☑️ cup.org/48uuUd3
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ALT Cover image of the book titled 'Homer: Iliad Book XXIII', by Adrian Kelly.
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With treebanks integrated to this evolving Perseus6, I consulted the analysis of @FrancMambr as I read Sophocles on the early morning beach. Thanks for @jtauber for the inline treebank viz concept. Evolving work: gregorycrane.github.io/persv…
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Jun 3
The ghosts of Latin and French inhabit LLMs in the form of a bias towards words with Romance roots over Germanic ones. Orwell is up in heaven stamping his foot.
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Jun 2
Indeed, this is how French were taught in "elite" classes.
People get intimidated by the term “classical education”.
The term really just refers to education as it always was before fringe progressives hikacked mainstream education 100 years ago.
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Thanks for the great suggestions for The Book Club! Here's what's up next:
9 June THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
16 June THE CODE OF THE WOOSTERS
23 June LITTLE WOMEN
30 June A GAME OF THRONES
7 July THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
14 July THE LEOPARD
21 July CIRCE
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Delphi - Greece, 1956
📸 Lionel Kazan for Elle
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We have the mechanics for translation alignment starting to appear. Automatic alignments are disappointing for now but you can see how we can show aignments: tinyurl.com/3jwnudtb
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May 30
Even as bots take down our Perseus sites, we are working on serverless versions. Here is one such effort that now has basic treebank support (and commentary). Lots of rough edges but progress. gregorycrane.github.io/persv…
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May 29
Such a good book. I seem to remember that he conceived it while on jury duty. He had a lot of downtime and just read the Iliad from cover to cover in Greek and conceived it.
May 29
I’ll never forget the first time I sat down and read this book — it opened up a new dimension of the text (and even influenced my reading of Aeschylus’ Erinyes).
Αἰωνία ἡ μνήμη.
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Since reading The Odyssey, I’ve never - not even once - sacked a city.
Please let me know how reading Homer or Plato has changed your life, how it has improved you in a moral sense.
I am most interested in specific passages and specific behaviors.
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May 28
The focus on prizes suggests that, like many humanities-in-crisis pieces, this one is worrying about the loss of _prestige_ for the subject, not its actual decline as an activity. Philology is so rich now it’s impossible to keep track of it all. Gratulor me denique natum.
May 27
Excellent to see the Antigone Philology Prize mentioned as a best-in-show contest in this sparky @newcriterion article: newcriterion.com/dispatch/fr…
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May 26
Agreed. Lombardo is also very performable, written to be performed.
A Homer translator whom I’ve always admired is Stanley Lombardo. Although his versification is far terser than mine, he manages to get the essence of each Homeric line. It’s very biting, very bracing. I reviewed his Iliad in 1997 for @nytimesbooks
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Preach!
May 25
What gets me about the Odyssey translation discourse is that if there are several translations of the same work and there's a translation you like, why not just appreciate that translation instead of spending your time malding like a loser over the translation you don't like?
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May 25
Interesting new design concepts for the @PerseusDigLib
May 24
Testing new layouts for comparing multiple versions of a work. These may be part of a new serverless Perseus: gregorycrane.github.io/persv…
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May 24
Forcellini! The breadth of coverage is marvelous.
May 23
Forcellini's Lexicon (1771) is a centuries-old classic with definitions in a clear Latin style. Learn about bilingual and monolingual Latin dictionaries, and how to choose and use the right one.📖
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"That textual criticism is a waste of time will be always believed by those who accept the texts of Greek and Latin authors as coming from heaven above... therefore I preach only to those willing to ask the question, 'How do we have any knowledge of the Greek and Roman world?'" antigonejournal.com/2026/02/…
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