Benjamin Anderson

Shocking news from uOttawa: Greek & Roman Studies closed to new students without consultation. Teaching of ancient languages to end. Open letter coming soon - follow for how you can help. #DefendClassicsUOttawa #Ottawa #AncientHistory #SaveHigherEd #HigherEdCuts #AncientGreek #Latin

Hope to see you there!

En ligne et sur place : La Réunion de Paris de 825 Enjeux théologiques et politiques de la controverse des images

… & here is a link to the website of the Institut historique allemand, with all the details: www.dhi-paris.fr/fr/agenda-de...

The workshop is also on Zoom. Here’s the program in three screenshots …

It’s the 1200th anniversary of the “Paris Meeting of 825,” at which a group of Frankish bishops discussed the permissibility of images in Christian worship!

We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉

i hope the rapture is tomorrow bc i have mad deadlines

(Deadline is 31 October.)

Sign, surrounded by hostas, pointing the way to the “Floriculture War Memorial Trail.”

As if we could ever forget the Floriculture War -

This is absolutely catastrophic for U.S. higher education, and for U.S. global leadership. Just the latest in a series of senseless acts of self-sabotage by a malevolent administration bent on making the United States weak and poor.

The Conquest of Istanbul and the Manipulation of Architecture: The Islamist-nationalist Rhetoric of Conquest and Melancholy This book explores the contemporary memory of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1453. It focuses on how the conquest is remembered by Islamist-nationalist imagination in Turkey ...

New book alert! 📕 Congratulations to Berin Gür, can’t wait to read this.

medieval illumination of a figure blowing a trumpet

We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity.
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...

A doodle doodling

Very doodly:

A screenshot from NYT’s Spelling Bee declaring that “doodly” is “not in word list”

Unfair to doodles 🐩

Fire at Arthur's Seat
#photography #edinburgh #wildfire

We are hiring a postdoc in ancient art! “The successful candidate will adopt a comparative approach to the study of art history and visual culture pre-1000 AD. Geographic specialization is open….”

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30300

We have extended the call for applications to July 30th for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.” The successful candidate would not necessarily need to move to Frankfurt to take up this position.

NO to the cable car at Monemvasia! - Αίτηση Online * We say “NO!” to the proposed cable car project on the rock of Monemvasia; not only because it will disfigure both the natural and monumental setting of this unique historical town, but also as the p...

Please consider signing this petition against the construction of a cable car (!) in Monemvasia -

Sardis & Bin Tepe are newly inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Many congratulations to all involved!

Jacket copy from an original cast album: "A landmark musical." —T. E. Kalem, Time Magazine -Jack Kroll, Newsweek Magazine "Glows with originality." —Judith Crist, Today Show, NBC-TV "Broadway's first treatment of nerve ends." —Douglas Watt, Daily News "Magnificent, strikingly innovative." —Martin Gottfried, Women's Wear Daily "Sizzles, provocative, an original and standout experience." —William Glover, AP "A truly sensational musical has finally happened." —Jack Gaver, UPI "An original piece of work that joyously breaks new ground, delights and astonishes."—Brendan Gill, The New Yorker

Guess that musical! #musicals

Marketing email announcing the acquisition of Rowman and Littlefield by Bloomsbury: “Bloomsbury authors include Carol J. Adams, Bertolt Brecht, Nawal el Saadawi, Paulo Freire, Rafia Zakaria, Slavoj Žižek, Ruth Wodak, and more.”

Did you know Brecht was a Bloomsbury author? (Did he?)

A big floppy doodle with a tiny purple dinosaur 🦕

Here’s Murphy with his favorite toy -

First quote: proprietor of upstate dog spa

Good one @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Unicorn by Don Paterson after Rilke’s “Die Sonette an Orpheus” This is the animal that never was. Not knowing that, they loved it anyway: its bearing, its stride, its high, clear whinny- right down to the still light of its gaze. It never was. And yet such was their love the pure beast arose; they had cleared the space. And in the stable of its nothingness it shook its white mane out and stamped its hoof. They fed it, then, not with hay or corn, but with the chance that it might come to pass. All this gave the creature such a power its brow put out a horn; one single horn. It grew inside a maiden’s looking-glass then one day walked out, and passed into her.

This is the animal that never was.
Not knowing that, they loved it anyway:
its bearing, its stride, its high, clear whinny—
right down to the still light of its gaze…

—Don Paterson, “Unicorn”
after Rilke’s “Die Sonette an Orpheus”
It’s #NationalUnicornDay! 🦄
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

In truth I am always thinking with images in later Greek epigram. But next week, Friday, April 18, I’ll get to indulge in public, here in Ithaca & with a wonderful group of fellow speculators. More info, including a link to the schedule, on the event page, here -

Died (alas!) on this day 1614 in Toledo, Spain, Doménikos Theotokópoulos, known as El Greco.

A tabby licking its chops among the ruins and weeds.

This Athenian kitty just snagged a tasty bug in the Agora 🐜

The Oracular Image: From Byzantium to the Baroque YouTube video by ascsathens

Had a brilliant time at the Gennadius last night! Here is a link to the video - www.youtube.com/live/X8NjnVh...

En route!

Joseph Mantuani explains why and how his contribution to the 1906 edition of the Vienna Dioscurides was published in German, not Latin: “Im Plane unserer Publikation wäre es gelegen gewesen, diese Besprechung in lateinischer Sprache zu bieten. Nach den Entwürfen von einigen Teilen wurde ich jedoch inne, dass die lateinische Abhandlung, in welcher die heutezutage üblichen termini technici durch Umschreibungen zu ersetzen gewesen wären, nicht nur ungebürlich breit, sondern für den Leser vielfach unklar werden müsste. So fasste ich denn, bestärkt durch meinen Kollegen v. Premerstein, dem ich auch sonst manche Anregung in dieser Arbeit verdanke, den Entschluss, sie womöglich in deutscher Sprache abzufassen. Der Vorschlag fand sowol seitens der k. u. k. Direktion der k.k. Hofbibliothek, als auch seitens der Leitung und des Verlages volle Zustimmung. So erscheint denn diese Studie ausnahmsweise in deutscher Sprache.”

So erschien damals (1906) etwas wissenschaftlich doch auf Deutsch -