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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Just announced: Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop: Apuleius, Apologia (Pro se de magia). July 13–18, 2026 blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2026/01/...

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philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Here is a report of some exploratory work transforming a traditional Greek textbook (Crosby and Schaeffer) into something truly digital. sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...

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Towards corpus-based learning: exercises with Ancient Greek » Perseus Digital Library Updates

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philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

We have a new article with Digital Classicist Online: Towards a smart edition of Apollodorus

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

There is still time to apply for the DCC Summer Online Internship program. Deadline is March 15. Please share with students you think might be interested! blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2026/01/...

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2026 Dickinson College Commentaries High School Online Internship Program | Dickinson College Commentaries

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Applications are coming in at a brisk pace for the DCC High School Online Internship Program, happening this summer. Please pass it on to the Latin and Greek students in your lives! Deadline is March 15. blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2026/01/...

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2026 Dickinson College Commentaries High School Online Internship Program | Dickinson College Commentaries

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Just announced: Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop: Apuleius, Apologia (Pro se de magia). July 13–18, 2026 blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2026/01/...

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Dr. Alicia Matz @duxfeminafacti9.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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

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Contribute | Dickinson College Commentaries

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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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The Ancient Scholia to Homer's Iliad

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

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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

Image of three computer screens, two with pdfs. One with word open in dark mode

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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...

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

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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

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Dr. Alicia Matz @duxfeminafacti9.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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.

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

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

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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...

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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…

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Logeion Greek-Latin @logeiongklat.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

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)

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.

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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

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SunoikisisDC: Analysing and visualising texts

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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!

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

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

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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."

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Who Killed Marrucinus Asinius? | Dickinson College Commentaries blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2025/01/...

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Who Killed Marrucinus Asinius? | Dickinson College Commentaries

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We should see AI in the writing process as analogous to the topoi or loci communes of classical rhetoric: a way to get your thinking started with basic, common types of arguments, to be refined and applied to your situation.

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

A fine scholar who will be missed.

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I went to a full day workshop on AI in education yesterday, and got so upset I had to leave the room a couple times. By the end I had calmed down and could think about being grateful for the opportunity to rethink EVERYTHING.

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I was initially reluctant to read this piece based on title and topic, but as always with Jeff Mauer, there is wisdom amid the outrageous similes. open.substack.com/pub/imightbe...

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Why Doesn't Hitler McFuckface Like Us Anymore?

Where won't this garbage-faced pile of ass cancer do what I want him to do?

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Logeion Greek-Latin @logeiongklat.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Odd slip in LSJ; dealt with correctly in DGE and Brill-Montanari.

LSJ derives ἀπαμφιεῖ from a verb ἀπαμφίζω and connects it to a simplex ἀμφιάζω (with that alpha dropping out for no apparent reason in this compound). Since ἀμφιεῖ is a form of ἀμφιέννυμι..

DGE entry for ἀπαμφιέννυμι. No discussion needed in DGE of the form (dealt with in simplex), Men. Misoumenos is the relevant passage.

Brill entry for the same verb (did you know that if you have an institutional subscription you can click straight through from the Logeion sidebar?). This dictionary is very forthcoming with parsed verb forms.

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Unless you’re a fabulous body lugging around a tiny soul.

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

This seems like a goldmine: George Bennet, Easy Latin stories for beginners : with vocabulary and notes (1892). It's got the gold ants! archive.org/details/easy...

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Do you know any high school Latin (or Greek!) students who would like to contribute to Dickinson College Commentaries in an internship over the summer? Please urge them to apply! blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2024/12/...

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2025 Dickinson College Commentaries High School Online Internship Program | Dickinson College Commentaries

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Both AIs did a superb job of crafting dictionary forms to my specifications. There were occasional errors of lemmatization, e.g. ἐπαινέω for ἔπαινος, σύζυγος for συζυγία. Claude was somewhat better at lemmatization than GPT, but both were very good. blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2025/01/...

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AI on the Bravery of Women | Dickinson College Commentaries

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I went into this panel rather repelled by AI, more aware of it as a tool for cheating on college writing assignments, and a potential menace to humanity, than as a potential aid in my beloved philology. I came out intrigued with the possibilities blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2025/01/...

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SCS 2025 Panel on Using AI in Classical Philology | Dickinson College Commentaries

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Patrick J. Burns @diyclassics.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Here is a link to the NECJ “(Re)Active Latin” article on LLMs and teaching Latin through conversation that I mentioned during today’s talk #aiascs

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Just announced: 2025 Dickinson College Commentaries High School Online Internship Program. We piloted this last year and it was a great success. I hope any high school aged Latinists who want to participate will apply! Dickinson College blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2024/12/...

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Random plug for Johan Winge's Macronizer. This outstanding tool for putting macrons on Latin text was developed by an undergraduate at Uppsala University. I use it all the time in making materials for my students and for DCC alatius.com/macronizer/

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A Latin Macronizer

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Just announced: Conventiculum Dickinsoniense July 14-19, 2025. Please join us if you can! blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2024/12/...

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Has anybody read or taught with Christina Tsaknaki's _Ovid, Heroides: A Selection_? Thinking of using it in the spring for an upper-intermediate group.

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Logeion Greek-Latin @logeiongklat.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

When a comment on the Logeion blog is not spam🥰 As always, I want to add that you can also help a lot by reporting problems, data entry errors, and open-access dictionaries that we could include..

This app is absolutely wonderful. And the new functionality only makes it twice as good. I recommend Logeion and Attikos to others but I’d also like to support this work with my two mites. Is there a place to donate? [Yes, dear reader, there is]

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Text editing is coming along nicely for the summer 2024 Dickinson Latin Workshop on Luisa Sigaea. We'll have a clean Latin text with macrons, vocabulary lists, and some notes. I hope you can join us! blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2023/09/...

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Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop 2024: Luisa Sigaea | Dickinson College Commentaries

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Logeion Greek-Latin @logeiongklat.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

If you encounter bugs, please do send us a Problem report when using Logeion. We were painfully aware of this one, and are working on it, but more eyes will find more bugs. Handy for us to have them in a spreadsheet.

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Logeion Greek-Latin @logeiongklat.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Just a great quote from Barbara Graziosi’s talk.

On holiday when one feels no obligation to be busy, and the relaxed mind summons up and integrates things long forgotten. The period after Christmas is particularly productive, when everything is shut and one is slouched in an armchair half asleep. The Muse of Textual Conjecture (..) only visits those who have worked, but she does not visit us when we are actually working.. Housman 1921

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