Wonderful interview with two heroes of classical studies. So grateful for their editorial work. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/les…

Latin is still alive, and not just for scholars and enthusiasts; in some places, it's still used as imperial propaganda, just as it was in Ancient Rome. Today, Michael Fontaine of Cornell University investigates the strange case of Vladimir Putin's Latin orations... antigonejournal.com/2025/12/caesar…

Giving the use of Learned Latin credit for modern science is flattering to Latinists, but it seems to me there has been much more scientific progress in vernacular languages since Latin’s demise as a scientific koine.

I have often wondered how it Luthered in the Netherlands

"Classics and the fruits of Classical learning are of course about much more than ivory-tower musing and contemplation. They involve bringing to bear one's understanding and skills on not just the past but the present." Are Classicists "unworldly nerds"? antigonejournal.com/2022/11/ted-tu…

Next time I teach logical fallacies to the freshmen, I am totally using this video

I will never forget the experience of reading this astonishing book. A Gibbon for our time.

Very cool to see Brill making their Open Access monographs available on archive.org Here's one: Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity (2022) archive.org/details/oapen-…

ChatGPT gives excellent OCR of mixed Greek and English. This is a bit of Riddell's edition of Plato's Apology of Socrates. I supplied a .jpg and some information about the format. It easily fixed slight flaws in the scan and delivered html. Could digitize many old comms this way.

What's new at DCC this year? dcc.dickinson.edu/whats-new

Vida's Christiad is a lovely work that deserves a wide readership. The hexameters do Vergil proud, and the pacing is snappy. The I Tatti edition rules!

Elision for the win!

Proverbs 33:1-3 : And lo, the final comma was placed before the conjunction, and there was much rejoicing, for none mistook the final two items in the list for one appositive phrase.

I have never seen a bilingual palindrome!