1. Vincent Ferrer, De suppositionibus, 2021 ed. & trans. Batalla & de la Cruz Vergari, trans. Hughes. Fetishizes ms M and has a tin ear for philosophy (see e.g. proem §1 ll. 1–2, §3 l. 15). Does not supersede 1977 ed. Trentman. The English translation is done from the Catalan 🤡

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Nothing bites at the soul quite like a professional classicist claiming that we lost Sappho's poems because the Library of Alexandria was burned.

For scholars to thrive, they must remain curious and open-minded in their studies, never regarding any door as closed. 90 years ago, Campbell Bonner of University of Michigan made this case eloquently for the Classics, and today we republish his unjustly forgotten essay: antigonejournal.com/2025/09/classi…

Student grade complaints: nihil sub sole novum.

This is just embarrassing.

Sometimes I feel that the university has already died and we’re all just out here pretending.

Papal infallibility does not, apparently, extend to Latinity.

A fun Gilbert Murray acquisition, though an oblivious librarian pasted over and damaged his inscription to an A(?) Rutherford. The correction to the Prefatory Note is plausibly in the author’s hand.

'Who's Creon?' the student asks his friend, as they enter the lecture on Antigone.

You can download this for free. The high-res photos are a great way to practice reading the script.

This is my new Taylor Swift album.