Chris Francese

Very intrigued by the new media coming out with ancient inspired titles. Like Pluribus and Bugonia...

Fair enough.

If anybody wants to pitch a good Neo-Latin text to DCC, please do! dcc.dickinson.edu/contribute

Thinking ahead to next summer ... just announced: Conventiculum Dickinsoniense 2026. blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2025/10/...

Perfect.

The Ancient Scholia to Homer's Iliad Cambridge Core - Classical Literature - The Ancient Scholia to Homer's Iliad

Coming soon: first English translation of the ancient scholia to the Iliad. Books 1 and 2.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

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LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Myyhologiae Classicae) is a great, albeit idiosyncratic, resource that takes some effort to work with

Poster announcement with classical Greek vase showing a woman reading a scroll and her attendants. Info for lectures: A.E. Stallings is Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. An American poet, who studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford, she has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives, and most recently, Like, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her poetry is known for sharp wit, inventiveness, and using classical references to talk about modern life. She has published three verse translations, Lucretius's The Nature of Things, Hesiod's Works and Days, and an illustrated The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice. Friday, October 10, 2025 4:30PM Weiss 235 Lecture 1 Translator as poet, poet as translator: originality and imitation as flip sides of one coin (a discussion of practice and performance) Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:30 PM Weiss 235 Lecture 2 Poets, Painters, Parthenon and Plunder: How Poets and Painters Framed the Debate Over Elgin and the Removal of Sculptures from the Athenian Acropolis

Very excited indeed to welcome poet, translator, and essayist A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social to Dickinson for the 27th Annual Roberts Lectures, October 10 and 11, 2025. Please join us for one or both if you are able! www.dickinson.edu/info/20033/c...

"This project gave me hope for Classics." The 2025 DCC High School Internship Program Is a Wrap blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2025/08/...

Latin scansion basics, with video: dcc.dickinson.edu/ovid-amores/...

I did two Classics themed panels at a Con this weekend and my takeaway is that more classicists should do panels at nerd Cons because a) the attendees are interested and b) so much of sci-fi/fantasy/speculative fiction is rooted in myth/history/etc.

Cover Image: A Greek gold ring, 3rd c. BC. Getty Museum 85.AM.278. Inscription: E Φ (short for Ephesos), one letter on either side of head of bee. Image credit: Getty Museum.

This commentary has been designed to aid the most inexperienced readers of Latin poetry. It includes a Latin text with macrons, conforming to that of Mynors (Oxford, 1969), notes, and running vocabulary lists.

Vergil’s fourth Georgic poetically discusses the honeybee hive, its “customs, activities, peoples and wars” (mōrēs et studia et populōs et proelia). It also contains a memorable account of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

NEW at DCC: Elizabeth Manwell (Kalamazoo College), Vergil: Georgics 4. dcc.dickinson.edu/vergil-georg...

William Turpin's (@swarthmore) new DCC edition of Gesta Francorum has all the bells and whistles. I am loving these new maps by the amazing Gabriel Moss. Just click on the media tab here. dcc.dickinson.edu/gesta-franco...

NEW at DCC: Gesta Francorum, edited by William Turpin. Latin text, running vocab, notes, audio and new maps by Gabriel Moss dcc.dickinson.edu/gesta-francoru…

Trend is, “movies where Matt Damon’s character is trying to get back home.”

Tertullian is such an underrated author. Guy could turn a phrase.

Freq distribution of forms over the six principal parts in Greek: roughly, 54% present; 31% aorist a/m; 4 % future, 4% perfect, 4% aor passive (rounded but ordered by frequency), 3% perf mp.

Evergreen: Why not to bother learning more than three principal (really, just two) parts in the first instance (data compiled by Rolf Noyer at Penn)

SunoikisisDC: Analysing and visualising texts

#SunoikisisDC session tomorrow: Analysing and Visualising Text, with Kaspar Beelen (University of London) & Megan Bushnell (Oxford Text Archive). ics.sas.ac.uk/events/sunoi...

Yes, please. Go to. It’s all CC licensed. I’m delighted when other re-use and re-mix. I’m not opposed to AI well-used. GPT has been helping me with formatting tasks.

Thank you so much! Anki is a great idea. My students are so plugged into Quizlet that I almost forget it exists.

There will be 90 (count ‘em, ninety) DCC Summer High School Interns this year. It’s a very talented group, will be working about 5 hours per week on Vergil, Gesta Francorum, Pliny, Elegiac Romulus, images for the core vocab, and data for The Bridge. Thanks to teachers who recommended it!

I just thought there might be some specific men you were angry at, rather than all of us.

Why the generalization?

Interesting question raised here. What is archaeologically distinctive about a lupanar, as opposed to a taberna?

One of the successful team in the Vesuvius Challenge. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

It seems like I spend the first years of a student's college career telling them that the humanities are essential for a good life, then, when they decide to go to graduate school in the humanities I want to tell them "Get out, it's a death trap, a suicide rap."

@naeviuspoeta.bsky.social