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Dr Sarah Corrigan

@corrigans.bsky.social

She/Her. Latin Language & Literature @ UniMelb. Into Ancient & Medieval, Philology, Manuscripts, Transmission & Compilation, Medieval Oceans, et cetera. Teach Latin and Underworld & Afterlife inter alia. Work and live on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country.

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Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7d ago

For the record, this Emily Wilson Odyssey review furor is ridiculous, and largely fueled by algorithms designed to work us up over practically nothing. She wrote a very interesting review from her perspective and I personally enjoyed it. Now, it feels like people want her arrested for a crime.

Dr Sarah Corrigan@corrigans.bsky.social · last wk.

Deadline extended until 14 August, you lucky ducks! Newcastle, in person, or Zoom in, but either way come join us... @jaema.bsky.social #AEMA21

Dr Matt Firth@mattfirth.bsky.social · 4w ago

The @jaema.bsky.social conference is coming up at the end of September, to be hosted at University of Newcastle(Aus). Themed 'faces of the early medieval world', submissions are invited for in-person or online papers that speak to the topic in the broadest possible sense.

CFP for the conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association conference. The CFP closes at the end of July. Proposals can be sent to aemaconference2026@gmail.com.
Jennifer Kretchmer@dreamwisp.bsky.social · last wk.

While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.

Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen

The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones

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Dr Sarah Corrigan@corrigans.bsky.social · last wk.

❗️Spoilers for Hamlet❗️ … 26. Is this even good? 27. What is “good” anyway? 28. What is “is”? 29. I am spiraling. 30. Focus. Add a ghost. 31. Every story improves with a ghost. 32. The ghost should be his father. 33. This is now deeply emotional. 34. I am a genius again. …

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 2w ago

- What if the line were slightly sadder? - What if it were also a little funny? - Can something be tragic and funny? I shall invent this.

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · last wk.

The Oresteia review – this body-shaking, blood-soaked opera is exhilaratingly wild

The Oresteia review – this body-shaking, blood-soaked opera is exhilaratingly wild

Sydney Chamber Opera, Carriageworks Six singers put not only their vocal cords but their bodies on the line in a physically demanding performance of Liza Lim’s aurally challenging opera Ambition and desire. Sacrifice and death. Vengeance and violence. Justice and regeneration. Repeat. Greek drama is so hot right now. It’s not only Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: Robert Icke’s edipus went to Broadway this year after a successful UK season, and Simon Stone’s Simon Stone’s The Oresteia opened in London this month. Last month in Sydney David Wenham performed An Iliad at Sydney Theatre Company and now, at Carriageworks, we have Liza Lim’s operatic take on Aeschylus’s blood-soaked revenge cycle. Continue reading...

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British Library@britishlibrary.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some weekends are made for getting lost in a good book. What's everyone reading this weekend? We need some recs 🖌A Child’s Garden of Verses by Jessie Willcox Smith, 1905 Source: 11650.h.36 frontispiece

Painting of a young girl. She has short tousled brown hair and is wearing a white dress, white tights and black mary jane shoes. She is sat in a window seat, avidly enjoying a book. Around her are more books, ready to be devoured next. Outside the sun shines and is coming in through the window.
Dr Craig Barker@drcraigb.bsky.social · 4w ago

A depiction of The Odyssey in ancient art a day until the release of Christopher Nolan’s film #theodyssey 🏺 Roman oil lamp depicting Scylla, a monstrous sea goddess whom Odysseus faced during the long voyage. 2nd century CE Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich (8958599194)

Roman mouldmade oil lamp with two depictions of Scylla as a female figure with two fish tails. Between the two images of Scylla is a human skeleton and intertwined dolphins. Scylla was a monstrous sea goddess who haunted the rocks of certain narrow strait opposite the whirlpool daemon Charybdis. Ships who sailed too close to her rocks would lose six men to her ravenous, darting heads. Homer describes Scylla as a creature with twelve dangling feet, six long necks and grisly heads lined with a triple row of sharp teeth.
Mateusz Fafinski@calthalas.bsky.social · 4w ago

Have you organized a smashing session at #IMC2026 that fits somewhere in the first millennium and you are thinking about publishing it? Essays in Long Late Antiquity accept proposals for special issues and special sections, just get in touch! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/cur...

Contents | Essays in Long Late Antiquity 1, 1

This editorial introduction explains the rationale for this journal and its place in the current research landscape of late antique studies. While this field has “exploded”, different specialisms and disciplines continue to approach the period through ...

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