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Chris Francese

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Project Director of Dickinson College Commentaries dcc.dickinson.edu

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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We at DCC are using a Claude-based tool called Commentarius.org to help with certain aspects of our work flow, always with extensive human review. It greatly speeds up our OCR efforts and vocab list creation (esp Greek). The generative piece is not very helpful to date.
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Commentarius — Commentary Production Platform
Commentarius is a commentary production platform for Latin and Greek: AI-assisted vocabulary, notes, glossed handouts, and rights-cleared museum images, exported print-ready.
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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
That is AMAZING! So great to hear, thanks for letting us know.
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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 · 09/11/2025
Fair enough.
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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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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Perfect.
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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
Cover Image: A Greek gold ring, 3rd c. BC. Getty Museum 85.AM.278. Inscription: E Φ (short for Ephesos), one letter on either side of head of bee. Image credit: Getty Museum.
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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This commentary has been designed to aid the most inexperienced readers of Latin poetry. It includes a Latin text with macrons, conforming to that of Mynors (Oxford, 1969), notes, and running vocabulary lists.
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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Vergil’s fourth Georgic poetically discusses the honeybee hive, its “customs, activities, peoples and wars” (mōrēs et studia et populōs et proelia). It also contains a memorable account of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
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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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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Trend is, “movies where Matt Damon’s character is trying to get back home.”
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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Tertullian is such an underrated author. Guy could turn a phrase.
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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 · 26/02/2025
Yes, please. Go to. It’s all CC licensed. I’m delighted when other re-use and re-mix. I’m not opposed to AI well-used. GPT has been helping me with formatting tasks.
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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Thank you so much! Anki is a great idea. My students are so plugged into Quizlet that I almost forget it exists.
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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 · 19/02/2025
I just thought there might be some specific men you were angry at, rather than all of us.
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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Why the generalization?
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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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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
@naeviuspoeta.bsky.social
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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 · 25/01/2025
Glad to see some love for concordances! Bret Mulligan and I have been digitizing and using concordances of classical authors gitclassical.github.io/ConcordanceL...
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Concordance Liberation Project
Data and description for the Concordance Liberation Project
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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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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
www.palatinate.org.uk/durham-unive...
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Durham University launches an interdisciplinary centre for Classics education and research
Durham University launched an interdisciplinary centre for Classics education and research (CERES) last month.
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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 · 16/01/2025
Thank you for the re-tweet (or whatever they call it on this platform)! Please let me know if you have any questions.
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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Is that because every known culture from the past practiced slavery, every region, race, religion, and political system?
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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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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
What is the goal/purpose?
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Chris Francese @francese.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The DCC Catullus is in progress. I’m using Garrison this semester.
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