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Gregory Mellen

@gregorymellen.bsky.social

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I'm a translator and language teacher living in Florence, Italy.

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Gregory Mellen @gregorymellen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Mirabile visu ! Macti sollertiâ ! Omnes qui linguae latinae operam dent oportet hanc pelliculam identidem spectare!

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Gregory Mellen @gregorymellen.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

They have to wait for La Befana to deliver them!

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Gregory Mellen @gregorymellen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

True — Xenophon of Ephesus, Chariton, Achilles Tatius can be tiresome... good bedtime reading. But Longus and (for very different reasons) Heliodorus are in another league!

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Gregory Mellen @gregorymellen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

For koine, the Greek Novelists are also lovely. The quality varies but Longus in particular is stunning — a masterpiece of pseudo-naive plain style (with intermittent flights of Gorgianic patterning — perhaps like English Euphuists, but better?). Goethe apparently read Longus every year.

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Gregory Mellen @gregorymellen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Greetings followers ! My translations of two stories by Patrizia Cavalli are now up at The Arkansas International ! www.arkint.org/magazine/tag...

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issue 17 — Magazine — The Arkansas International

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Gregory Mellen @gregorymellen.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The latest issue of Literary Matters is out. It has two of my translations of the Triestine poet Virgilio Giotti — along with many beautiful pieces by the likes of Elijah Blumov, Ryan Wilson, Hailey Leithauser and more! www.literarymatters.org/issue-18-1/

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Issue 18.1 - Literary Matters

Literary Matters 18.1 (Fall, 2025) [issue_toc] Editor's Note: John Matthew Steinhafel Interview Andrew M. Davenport: A Conversation with William Melvin Kelley Reviews Matthew Kirby: Modern Echoes in K...

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