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singing of national anthem was awful

Pasts Imperfect (9.25.25) This week, historian of science, art, information, and monsters Surekha Davies discusses monster-making in the past and the present.

The latest Pasts Imperfect has @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social taking on ancient & medieval monsters 🐉. Then, a new book on art from ancient India & the Greco-Roman world, Barnard profs defend free speech, ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & Joy Connolly eulogizes Michael Putnam.

Fantastic poem!

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#LatinForTheDay – 22 September #Ovid

“Memnona si mater, mater ploravit Achillem,
et tangunt magnas tristia fata deas,
flebilis indignos, Elegia, solve capillos!
a, nimis ex vero nunc tibi nomen erit!—
ille tui vates operis, tua fama, Tibullus...

I just hope that they don’t destroy the things that make the ANU great, like its sensationally good Centre for Classical Studies, its Music School and its National Dictionary Centre.

Another amazing quarter happening right now

'Rotten' Australian university culture lashed in long-running senate inquiry Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", a senate inquiry has found.

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", a senate inquiry has found.

Troy review – this fresh Australian take on Homer’s Iliad is a monumental triumph Malthouse, MelbourneTom Wright’s production is the best thing Malthouse has produced in years: shocking, chilling, funny and often breathtakingly beautiful

Troy in Melbourne www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

📜Australasian #Ovidian Society upcoming meeting

Join us next week, & check out the full program on our flyer!✨

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📌I'll be presenting this month on #Ovid Heroides 7
🗓15 Sept, 5PM AEST
📖 The Dido Project: Creative Research Practice as Critical Resistance

Introducing... The Roman Mourner - a comprehensive analysis of the customs and rituals associated with mourning and death in ancient Rome.

Find out more: bit.ly/4lMdRI6

But many past faiths are also present faiths. Are you saying that I can’t call religious beliefs false? (I wouldn’t call them ‘superstitions’.)

Can a fossil be only 2000 years old?

It’s all about the money and it always is.

Classics In Our Time Podcasts This is a list of podcasts from BBC In Our Time. I originally posted this as a Blog Post in 2017, but now updating it to a Page to make it easier to edit. Latest update: 4 September 2025 Greek…

Given the news about Melvyn Bragg stepping down from In Our Time, now might be a good time to share this list (thanks to Paul Cartledge for the reminder!) keenerclassics.wordpress.com/classics-in-...

The Crows will be shattered. The Advertiser had over 30 pages on the football today.

A quarter to go, but can’t see the Crows winning

Not close now

Very close!

On Apple podcasts now!

Here we go, gang! All 12 books of The Aeneid in 27 minutes. In one take. If I managed it. Let's find out...

Tune into BBC Radio 4 at 9am today 😬

Catch up any time on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Now out - open access - in Classical Review. Thanks, @thedancinggrad.bsky.social for taking this one on.

You’re right. It’s really, really good. I bought the Italian set. But it’s great to have it in English.

Book Series Published by Edinburgh University Press ​The study of ancient Greek religion stands at a critical methodological juncture. While foundational frameworks like the polis-religion model have yielded...

Well. It’s official. You can now submit your proposals to the New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Religion book series, published by Edinburgh University Press!

#ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Sometimes Protestant and Catholic Bibles have different numbering. But you’re right. You need to know Latin to check.

I guess that I learned those names by hearing them in lectures.
Hyperbolē is another problem for English speakers.

I pronounce that name with a long ē.

Good grief! And this is on their science and technology page

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#LatinForTheDay – 27 August #Ovid

“fallat, et in tenues evanidus exeat auras,
perque gradus molles emoriatur amor.
sed modo dilectam scelus est odisse puellam:
exitus ingeniis convenit iste feris.
non curare sat est: odio qui finit amorem,...

I have one PhD scholarship attached to my Ancient Monarchy Future Fellowship project for a candidate working on ancient monarchy and religion, preferably with a comparative element. $38,154 stipend for domestic & international candidates. Deadline 30 September.
study.anu.edu.au/scholarships...