Stoked to announce that the Spring 2026 issue of the New England Clasiscal Journal (53.1) is published! Featuring an article on atē and women's pain in Sophocles' Trachinian Women, the @caneweb.org 2026 Katz Prize and Student Writing Contest winners, & 4 book reviews! crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/

My latest review is out in @rheaclassical.bsky.social ! Celia Campbell’s RIVAL PRAISES: OVID AND THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE HYMNIC TRADITIONS (Wisconsin 2024) was an exciting and productive read that explores a new angle of interpretation for Ovid’s best-known work.

Rhea Classical Reviews@rheaclassical.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Take a break from the grading frenzy and read our newest review! @thedancinggrad.bsky.social reviews "Rival Praises: Ovid and the Metamorphosis of the Hymnic Tradition" by Cecilia Campbell (@uwiscpress.bsky.social 2024).

Do itttttttttttt our panel will be so cool 🥺🥺🥺

Dr. Alicia Matz@duxfeminafacti9.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The International Ovidian Society is taking submissions of abstracts for our panel at the 2027 AIA/SCS in Boston! The topic is "The Voice of the Artist In and After Ovid." The deadline is approaching! Questions? Contact me and @thedancinggrad.bsky.social Full CFP: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Aren’t we lucky that universities haven’t gotten carried away with the hype and taken a careful approach to AI? Imagine if they had decided to push AI into our teaching and work life! All praise to our leaders in higher ed for not falling for hype, hallelujah and praise the goddess

In 2024, we founded a new open access, peer reviewed journal. I'll be at the #AIASCS in San Francisco with a stack of #ResDiffJournal postcards, and as submissions editor I'd be happy to chat with anyone looking to submit their work. resdifficiles.com #AIASCS26

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We “are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.” Thanks for this, @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social and Christopher Nygren.

Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books

We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

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Happy to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of the New England Classical Journal (52.2) is now published! Featuring an article on felicitas in late antiquity, two book reviews, and an in memoriam for Gil Lawall. Check it out at the link! crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/ AncientBlueSky ClassicsBlueSky

The official issue that contains my review of the Cambridge Metamorphoses commentary is out! Thanks @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social for posting, and thanks again to @gretahawes.bsky.social for the chance to spend some quality time with this enormously important resource for Ovidian studies.

Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New issue of The Classical Review Vol. 75 , No. 2 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @universitypress.cambridge.org @debscavator.bsky.social @thedancinggrad.bsky.social @alysonroy.bsky.social @jessicamckenzie.bsky.social @pacman343.bsky.social

🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️ I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator! spot.fund/dn8t744sc

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Friends, please check out this amazing and important fundraising campaign from @chancebonar.bsky.social to compensate an Arabic translator for his vital sourcebook of ancient voices in Gaza and consider making a donation! spot.fund/klk26smsc

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Delighted to have a short piece in this week's TLS on Hades 2, gender, and modern myth making. www.the-tls.com/arts/hades-i...

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Video games are often the first and most common way that many people now encounter the classical world. Hades, a critical hit following its release in

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For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

Teaching a new course this semester focused on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and our first assignment is pondering this marvelous talk by @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social on (the politics of) translating Ovid and how a feminist lens resists contemporary gender and sexual stereotypes. youtu.be/FHT8twAy7zk?...

Morse Lecture 2024: 'Translating Ovid's Metamorphoses' with Professor Stephanie McCarter

YouTube video by Bristol IGRCT

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Now out - open access - in Classical Review. Thanks, @thedancinggrad.bsky.social for taking this one on.

Daniel Libatique@thedancinggrad.bsky.social · last yr.

Latest review just dropped! I had the pleasure of reviewing the new English translation of the Valla commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and I unsurprisingly found it the most definitive English-language commentary on the Metamorphoses out there. Check out the review here! doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Latest review just dropped! I had the pleasure of reviewing the new English translation of the Valla commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and I unsurprisingly found it the most definitive English-language commentary on the Metamorphoses out there. Check out the review here! doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Decreased public funding for state schools is not a red state vs blue state issue. It isn’t a Trump issue. It’s symptomatic of a bipartisan disinvestment in higher ed as a foundational public good. It’s been happening for decades. It doesn’t have to be this way. www.opb.org/article/2024...

Oregon lags most states in public higher education funding, report finds

An annual report from a prominent higher education association ranks Oregon 44th in the nation for public higher education funding.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg@laurenginsberg.bsky.social · last yr.

Ppl who’re surprised about cuts to higher ed in blue states seem to think that disdain for humanities in particular & highered in general is limited to one side of the aisle. This isn’t true./1

“P.S. You’re probably thinking of the en dash. That whore has always been suspicious.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

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Classics friends, we're searching for an adjunct to teach two in-person courses, intro Latin and a Roman lit in translation course, at Fairfield University this fall. Please see details in the attached screenshot, and let me know of any questions or interest! ClassicsBlueSky AncientBlueSky

New paper alert! 📢 In this article, I explore how different game design motivations impact mythological characters in video games, based on interviews with the people behind Apotheon, Hades, and Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island: academic.oup.com/crj/advance-...

Where was Apollo in Supergiant’s Hades? Developer motivations and mythological characters in video games

Abstract. Academic interest in classical reception and video games is thriving, but one dimension that has so far escaped scholarly attention regards the v

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Time for panel 2 #MythGames2025, "Myth, Culture, and Heritage (1)" with papers on "mythroidvanias", Etruscan ritual in Lex Arcana, and counterintuitive ontologies in Black Myth: Wukong & Tchia!

Alexander Vandewalle@alexvandewalle.bsky.social · last yr.

Starting with our first panel, "People, Emotions, and Mythological Games" #MythGames2025 Papers on personal myth and Tchia, the therapeutic power of mythology & games, and a queer close reading of Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical!

Starting with our first panel, "People, Emotions, and Mythological Games" #MythGames2025 Papers on personal myth and Tchia, the therapeutic power of mythology & games, and a queer close reading of Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical!

The online Mythological Game Studies Conference #MythGames2025 starts in about an hour! @maciejpaprocki.bsky.social I'll be opening the conference with an introduction on the theme of the conference, mapping current approaches to the study of mythology and games

I'm so excited for #MythGames2025 this week! I'll be presenting my paper on Patroclus' dark skin color in Supergiant Games' Hades amongst some excellent company and great topics. Hope to see everyone there! mythgamescon.wordpress.com/schedule/

Schedule

All times are listed in GMT+2 = Central European Summer TimePlease calculate the according time in your individual timezone. Day 0 – Pre-Conference, Wednesday May 21st 21:00-23:00 – Special Event A…

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Rerum Novarum 2: Electric Boogaloo

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Things I learned at CAMWS: Illinois Classical Journal now has no backlog and ALSO they have started publishing short form notes in addition to regular length articles. So let that be widely known!

Tell your libraries (and wealthy humanities-supporting philanthropists) that my book _God, Slavery, and Early Christianity: Divine Possession and Ethics in the Shepherd of Hermas_ can be pre-ordered!🏺 www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

The Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities initiative provides mini-grants of up to $2,000 to support public engagement projects. The next deadline is May 16, 2025! To learn more about the initiative, please visit: classicalstudies.org/outreach/anc...

It is my pleasure to share the recordings from #ResDiff6, an annual digital conference on inequity in the field of classics which I co-organize with Joseph Romero. All videos from #ResDiff6 (as well as all past conferences) can be found here: resdifficiles.com

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NECJ 52.1 is live! Some amazing articles on topics ranging from denials of Terence's blackness to age in Vergil's Georgics and Eclogues to a Myrina-type aulete figurine, with two book reviews, @caneweb.org's 2025 Katz and Student Writing Contest Prize winners, and some cool ads -- check it out!

Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 2y ago

New issue of New England Classical Journal Vol. 52 No. 1 (2025) crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/vol52/i... #openaccess @caneweb.org @opietasanimi.com