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Latin philology. Latin teaching/learning. Book history. Latin in the early modern era (and other eras).
A book entitled "Commentary on Thucydides Book 3" by Rachel Bruzzone.
New Acquisition!
This one is particularly special because the author is an old friend-- I remember reading Thucydides with her on frozen Minnesota mornings when we were undergrads together.
Yeah. Hard to know if she "circulated" her own, for that matter. Also a little tricky whether Cato's were actually "letters" (since he also had works addressed to his son), but still in the same fuzzy world.
22.11.2025 03:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, it worked for Sarah Palin.
22.11.2025 03:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sounds awesome!
22.11.2025 02:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks for the heads up on this!
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Offhand: In Jordan's 1860 "M. Catonis praeter librum de re rustica quae extant" I find four fragments of letters (pp. 83-84).
archive.org/details/bub_...
Not that I'm aware of-- but with the caveat that there are a lot of things that I'm not aware of.
One could imagine fragments surviving in Plutarch or Gellius.
Question for classicists: was Cornelia ("mater gracchorum") the first Roman figure to circulate their letters publicly? Was there anyone earlier?
(Apart from the fragments, the letters are mentioned by Cic. Brut. 211 and Quintilian IO 1.1.6)
Dear Nerds: I have just learned that Smith's "Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary" is now available in a searchable online format (thanks to Johan Winge and Latinitium): latinitium.com/latin-dictio...
21.11.2025 21:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ugh. That is awful.
Overall, it has complete disappeared from news stories in the US.
Looks like a party!
21.11.2025 14:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sometimes I wonder if, in the white house, anyone is ever like "Whatever happened with Greenland?"
21.11.2025 14:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I want a tool like Adblock that blocks all AI tools and content from my browser
20.11.2025 15:19 — 👍 106 🔁 16 💬 5 📌 6Too Like the Lightning, by Ada Palmer
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There's so much cool stuff happening on Latin and bilingualism lately.
www.italianisti.it/news/congres...
I know. It makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
18.11.2025 21:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh, that's so cool-- thanks for sharing!
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Writing books.
17.11.2025 14:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I do not entirely agree, but the second I saw this post, I decided it was about time for me to close this window and watch a high-production value, award-seeking period piece.
17.11.2025 02:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On that note: can you recommend any good works on color words in Latin?
17.11.2025 00:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I didn't know it until I breezed through the table of contents, but I WAS looking to spend my evening reading about ancient Greek lexical semantics, with a case study on the color-word "chloros."
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How did oral and written traditions influence the transmission of sacred texts in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam? A new volume uncovers the complex interplay between spoken word and manuscript culture in the medieval Middle East:
uhh.de/csmc-intersame
Open access!
Does anyone know: where do you go to complain about AI intrusions into Word?
13.11.2025 16:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, these emails will surely mean consequences for the man who faced no consequences for a recording of him bragging about sexual assault, and no consequences despite being held liable by a court for a different(!) sexual assault.
12.11.2025 22:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
You had me at "Polybius"
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Polybi...
The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising a panel on career opportunities for PhDs and early career researchers as part of our AGM at the Warburg Institute on Friday 14 November!
All are welcome and attendance is free! Registration is encouraged via this link: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren...
Announcing the J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2025! 🏆
We are looking for the best PhD thesis on any aspect of manuscript studies defended between 1 Sep 2024 and 31 Dec 2025. The award includes a prize of 5,000 EUR and a fellowship at the CSMC.
Apply by 6 February 2026!
uhh.de/csmc-jpga-2025
Somehow my favorite part is the corrections: [incomprehensible]? oops, that was meant to be [incomprehensible]
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Starting Nov 26 (4pm CET) - online Prolepsis Research Network seminar series "#NeoClassica: Texts and Perspectives from the Early Modern Classical Tradition" listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Link: email prolepsis.network@gmail.com
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