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Gregory Stringer

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Latin Teacher, historian, slow runner, hack drummer, amateur essayist, allstar Trekkie. 🖖 gregorypstringer.medium.com/fathers…

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Gregory Stringer @gregorystringer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#StarTrek has meant the world to me, taught me how to be mature & optimistic when I was a morose teen, helped me process so many different emotions & experiences as an adult, including especially my relationship with my long deceased father. #StarTrekDay gregorypstringer.medium.com/fathers-and-...
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Fathers and Sons
Making meaning of my relationship with my father via Star Trek.
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Malcolm Wood @woodmally1979.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Seven of Nine Day to all those who celebrate.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4. Instead, it looks like this.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is insane. When I was in first grade my parents let me walk 3 blocks to school in the mornings, and home after it was over. The independence that I got as a child helped me so much in my life. No parent should face charges for something like this, let alone be convicted!
In June, when Parkinson was preparing for the bar—and also happened to be eight months pregnant with her fifth child—she and her then-youngest, Sam, went for a bike ride, as they often do. They stopped for her son's favorite activity: collecting goose feathers from the path near their community pond. When they got home, he asked if he could walk back and get some more.

Parkinson said yes. It's a short walk, along a sidewalk separated from the street by 10 feet of grass. Sam would have to cross two streets with crosswalks, which she'd seen him do safely hundreds of times—including six times that morning, she says. Off he went while she made lunch.

A passerby saw Sam and alerted security. One of the community's security guards escorted the boy back and gave Parkinson an earful. Pretty soon there were three cop cars, just as many cops, a security vehicle, and two Child Protective Services (CPS) workers at Parkinson's door.

CPS ended up investigating her for abuse and neglect.

The cops, meanwhile, charged her with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. CPS found the allegations substantiated and placed Parkinson on the state's child abuse and neglect registry. She will remain there for seven years.
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My latest for Nat Geo's Stones & Bones is out! On the destruction of the Library of Alexandria. Featuring work and commentary from Roger Bagnall, Alex Schultz, Cat Lambert, and AnneMarie Luijendijck. www.nationalgeographic.com/newsletters/... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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What Really Destroyed the Library of Alexandria?
History loves a villain, but the culprit was likely something much more mundane.
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Casa Carlini @casacarlini.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Curious about the lasting legacy of ancient epics? 🤔 Meet Joel Christensen, a renowned expert on Homer, in our latest interview! In "The Wrath and the Wanderer," he explores why Homer's stories continue to captivate us 3,000 years later. Read the full interview — link in bio!
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Dan Diffendale @diffendale.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
from 1957-1977 the Italian broadcaster RAI ran 1000s of "caroselli" ads, often with famous personalities of the period... my favorite is the series for Barilla (yes, the pasta brand) featuring the singer Mina, particularly her Se Telefonando, filmed (1967) on the roof of the Naples train station...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"...professors at my mini-viva questioning my use of the term 'Asian American canon', insisting that 'canon' was the remit of white authors (and reciting names to me as I fought back tears)..." www.vogue.co.uk/article/camb...
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I Aspired To Get My PhD At Cambridge – I Left Because Of The Racism
“I could write a second memoir solely on the racism I experienced at Cambridge University as a Master’s and PhD student,” writes Jill Damatac, a Filipino-American author who was a student at Cambridge...
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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Google on a mission to destroy one of its only products that has been an unqualified success. Classroom has basically become K-12 public school infrastructure at this point. Parents need to tell their districts about this so they can turn that setting off. Teachers must be able to disable it too.
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Gregory Stringer @gregorystringer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Been watching sodes of old school TMNT on my flight home and realizing young me was set up with very unrealistic expectations regarding the bravery, diligence, and integrity of journalists by April O’Neil.
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April O'Neil Driving in TMNT
ALT: April O'Neil Driving in TMNT
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️
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Kevin Ballestrini @kballestrini.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Ok; Spanish VERBA is now live at play.verba-game.com, joining Latin, French, and an English version designed for ML learners. Since the collapse of the old bird place, the WL network isn't as large. Please share widely and let me know what you think! If you are new, verba-game.com has the details
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VERBA
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General Guinan @madmaudlin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Gregory Stringer @gregorystringer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
#Chanuary
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Women's Classical Caucus @womensclasscaucus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Part two of our back to school pedagogy offerings, Beyond the Basics: Integrating Universal Design for Learning into your Pedagogy on August 11 at 1pm ET. Join @apistone.bsky.social and @ellenleephd.bsky.social for more advanced conversations around accessibility & UDL www.wccclassics.org/events
Poster withvarying shades of purple in he design with the following information 

WCC Pedagogy Workshop: Beyond the Basics: Integrating Universal Design for Learning into your Pedagogy
Tuesday August 11, 10am PT / 1:00 pm ET 

You may be familiar with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, a set of principles designed to give all students an equal opportunity to learn and develop learner agency.

This workshop offers participants an opportunity to review the basic UDL framework with other educators, but it also aims to go beyond an introductory level and provide a space for participants to have more advanced conversations about accessibility and learner agency.

Facilitated by Dr. Ellen Cole Lee and Dr. Amy Pistone 
Register now!
https://www.wccclassics.org/events
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Look at the email I got today, @gregorystringer.bsky.social!
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Rhea Classical Reviews @rheaclassical.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Rhea Receptions essay up, reviewing Nolan's "The Odyssey"! This thoughtful and insightful review considers the film as a product of our current times and places it within the historical lineup of other adaptations of the Odyssey over the past century.
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Voyages in Time: The Odyssey (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2006)
Colin Whiting, Dumbarton Oaks, whitingc01@doaks.org Note: Spoilers ahead Let’s get the flotsam and jetsam of a film review out of the way first. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is, as one…
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My father was sent home by United from a post-ICU rehab facility in Maine b/f his covered # of days b/c my parents couldn’t afford to pay out of pocket while the second appeal went through. It was Friday of a holiday weekend so Medicare home-health couldn’t start until the next week. He died.
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pheebs @clitullus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
hello my dear friends — if anyone has a lead on a sublet ( room or apartment, furnished or un) in Manhattan that starts in August or September…. i’m about to be homeless AND dogless — and I really need to be able to live near my graduate classes on fieldwork :))) I was not raised by wolves I promise
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hello #classics Bluesky, this is a stab in the dark, but: I would like to record an episode of Classically Trained, mine and Allison Marlyn's reception podcast, about Nolan's Odyssey. Allison is neck deep in field season and cannot actually join me. Would anyone be interested in a guest spot?
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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
venerable bede coded tbh
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Dr. Torie Burmeister @mercurywitch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
hey #classicsbluesky I am in this! If you don’t have access to the volume—which includes many great pieces besides my own—consider asking your library to add Arion to its collection! It’s such a cool journal for more experimental forms of scholarship. You can also DM me for more info on my piece.
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Kevin Ballestrini @kballestrini.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Earlier this summer we brought the Latin version of VERBA online; web-based, free to use -- verba-game.com We're excited to soft-open the English version (for ML learners) and French. Spanish *will* follow, but it's a matter of being cautious and conservative with scale.
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VERBA - The Pericles Group Foundation
Putting the _____________ in Language Learning VERBA is the language learning card game developed by The Pericles Group. The concept is incredibly simple — one player (acting as a judge) ...
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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump's fascination is not with classical architecture, it's with *neoclassical* architecture as refracted through colonial European power projection, and then poorly strained through the tastes and poses of antebellum plantation owners, American robber barons, and global authoritarian tyrants.
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Gregory Stringer @gregorystringer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Saw the Odyssey. It was … fine. My hot take, the Armand Assante version is still much better, for a variety of reasons. #TheOdyssey
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Dan Conway @magisterconway.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Omg it’s real
11. Love me love my dog. [Qui me amat, amat et canem meum. - 12th cent.: St Bernard, Fest. S. Mich., Ser. i § 3.] c. 1480: Early Miscell., 62 (Warton Cl.), He that lovythe me lovythe my hound. 1527: Tyndale, in Treatises, 84 (P.S.), We say also, He that loveth not my dog, loveth not me. 1583: Stubbes, Anat. of Abuses, 178
(N.Sh.S.). 1664: in Musarum Deliciae, etc., ii 77 (Hotten). 1714: Spectator, No. 579. 1826: Lamb, Pop. Fallacies, xiii. 1920: W. H. Mallock,
Memoirs, 42.3. Non sic minister ille sublimior cunctis, sed et humilior universis, sui semetipsum obtulit sacrili-cium laudis, qui Patri offerens animam suam, nobis ministrat usque hodie carnem suam. Hujus utique tanti ministri 
gratia nihil mirum, si dignanter nolis, imo et libenter angeli sancti ministrent. Ipsi enim amant nos, quia nos Christus amavit. Dicitur certe vulgari quodam proverbio: Qui me amal, amal et canem meam. Nos vero, o heati angeli, catelli su-mus Domini illins, quem tanto affectu diligitis; catelli, inquam, cupientes saturari de micis, que ca-dant de mensa dominorum nostrorun, qui estis vos.
Et hæc dixerim, fratres, ut ampliorem de catero er-ga beatos angelos filuciam babeatis, ac proinde familiarius in omni necessitate vestra corum invo-celis auxilia; s"d'el alignius in corum presentia conversari, et magis ac magis corum vobis conci-liare gratiam, captare benevolemiam, exorare cle-mentiam studeatis. Cujus rei gratia necessarium duco alias quoque charitati vesire exponere caesas, quie el ipse beatos angelos pro nostra infirmitate reddant sollicitos; absque sua sane ansielate, sed non alisque utilitate nostra; nee ad detrimentum feiicitatis sure, sed ad nostre salutis augmentum.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I’m looking to speak with people who are resisting the erosion of human thought, creativity, skill, and relationship through AI. 🧵
Text written on a book page reads: Looking to hear from people who are resisting the erosion of human thought, creativity, skill, and relationship through AI.  If that sounds like you, reach out via kellyhayes.org.
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Dan Conway @magisterconway.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
You ever have an idea that sticks in your head and won’t leave until it’s complete? Well, that was me and my idea for a Latin reader based on the Roman values listed on the AP syllabus. So here it is: an anthology of Latin exempla, free to use and enjoy! magisterconway.blogspot.com/2026/07/more...
Cover of book: "Mōrēs Rōmānī: An Anthology of Exempla in Latin Prose: with notes by Dan Conway." Cover image is a marble sculpture of a wrinkled Roman man in profile.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY
Guy standing up meme
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Free CSI Lectures - July 6-10, 2026 - CANE caneweb.org/free-csi-lec...
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Free CSI Lectures - July 6-10, 2026 - CANE
The CSI Lecture Series, which is free and open to the public, begins next week. We hope you can join us!
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Someone buried 40,000 Roman coins 1,700 years ago and never returned. Then archaeologists uncovered the hidden treasure | - The Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/some...
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Someone buried 40,000 Roman coins 1,700 years ago and never returned. Then archaeologists uncovered the hidden treasure
A routine archaeological excavation beneath a quiet village in northeastern France has uncovered one of the most remarkable Roman coin hoards found in recent years. Hidden for around 1,700 years, thre...
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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up
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Gregory Stringer @gregorystringer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
What the f is this framing for a headline?!? Why are nursing homes and factory owners listed first as those impacted by the ruling?! (I know why, but good god) This is why I always say the most important thing my students take away from Latin classes is the concept of “cui bono?” “Good for whom?”
A headline from the Washington Post which reads “Nursing homes, factory owners, and immigrants brace for fallout from Supreme Court ruling”
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I will always post about how evil Elon Musk is, both because it’s true and because it contributes ever so slightly to the vast psychic damage that is currently the only kind of accountability he can seemingly face. So yeah he’s entered the hall of fame of most evil people to ever live
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Magistra Cohen (she/her) @magistracohen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Usurper. There is only one four-legged Odysseus.
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Wishbone Doge
Alt: Wishbone as Robin Hood, but there's a bow and arrow, so it works.
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Gregory Stringer @gregorystringer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Perhaps I should do a repost of my essay about fathers and sons in Star Trek and how it helped me reevaluate and better understand my relationship with my own father - Ben Sisko being central to the story as the father I wished I’d had. gregorypstringer.medium.com/fathers-and-...
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Fathers and Sons
Making meaning of my relationship with my father via Star Trek.
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Ancient Greek and Latin taught as living languages. New classes starting in July... thepatrologist.com/shop/
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» SeumasU : Online courses in Latin and Greek The Patrologist
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Maria Town @mariatown.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Moving special education to the Department of Health and Human Services will not help students with disabilities. It will not help families. It will not help teachers. It will send us back, 50 years if not more. This will re-segregate students with disabilities. www.aapd.com/ed-transfer-...
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AAPD Outraged by Unlawful Transfer of Special Education, Civil Rights Offices From Department of Education to Other Agencies - AAPD
For Immediate Release: June 16, 2026 Contact: Jess Davidson, jdavidson@aapd.com; 202-465-5528   WASHINGTON, DC —  The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) strongly condemns today’s ...
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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Has anyone on here viewed manuscripts and/or visited Milan's Ambrosiana for research purposes? Would appreciate advice!
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Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This is a museum replica by Alva Studios, but I’m not sure what it’s a replica of. My grandmother wore it in the 1960’s. Does the image look familiar to anybody?
Alva Studios museum replica medallion
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David J. DeVore @devoretext.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Wait…is Hegseth implying that the *Allies* were storming Normandy’s beaches with a “dangerous ideology”? bsky.app/profile/danl...
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Gregory Stringer @gregorystringer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Have you considered Disney’s Robin Hood? 🤔
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Robin Hood Dancing
Alt: Disney’s Robin Hood bowing a tipping his cap dramatically.
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
New England Classical Journal Vol 53, No. 1 (2026) crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/vol53/i... #openaccess @caneweb.org @homericquestions.bsky.social
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 25/05/2026
It is 1993. I am 14 years old.
The President of the United States was born in 1946.

It is 2008. I am 30 years old.
The President of the United States was born in 1946.

It is 2026. I am 47 years old.
The President of the United States was born in 1946.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/05/2026
glad they found this and will use their work for good to explain this, but also this is self-evident! don't let AI also drain us of our ability to know a priori such tech is wrong and harmful, using common sense so yes, evidence is wonderful, but it serves to support what we knew, not vice versa!
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darmok behind the wheel of a large automobile @pocketsand.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Geordi Drake meme comparing TNG and DS9 Ferengi episodes
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Alex Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Yeah, I care about Data Centers. Like when Data is the Center of an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
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Magistra Cohen (she/her) @magistracohen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I am incredibly excited, delighted, and honored to announce the forthcoming publication of Selections from The Student's Catullus. Working on this project with my teacher Dan Garrison has been the best project in which I have ever been privileged to participate. 1/4 www.oupress.com/978080619739...
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Selections from the Student's Catullus for AP and College Latin - University of Oklahoma Press
Although his poems survived the Middle Ages in only a single copy, Catullus has become a canonical author in our time; his artistry and range place him with ...
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