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Dickinson College Commentaries: digital commentaries on classical texts. Chris Francese, project director, tweeting.
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA
Joined June 2012
Say hello to the newest edition to the Dickinson College Classics faculty, Visiting Assistant Professor Emma Dyson! . Emma earned a Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in May of this year and a B.A. in Classics and English Literature from USC in 2018.
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loving these old photos.
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RT @Ljhodgson_: Been working on this exciting project for a while!! . If you've never read Confessions, now is the time! Tolle lege!.
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Yet the love of classics does flourish, and scholars do travel easily over national borders. Semi-related anecdote: I met a totally non-academic guy today who named his sons Aurelius and Caius because he loved Latin in middle and high school.
Rather moving to confront the optimism that infuses the closing chapter of H.T. Peck's History of Classical Philology, written in 1911. Needless to say, the world had other ideas. And now we are where we are.
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I love America.
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This looks like fun! And Zoom-based Latin reading groups are a great thing.
We still have some spots available for Juvenal's Satires on Thursday night via Zoom, starting September 4. Intermediate to advanced Latin students, what are you waiting for? Semper ego auditor tantum numquamne reponam?" Shall I always just stand here quietly?" info@latinperdiem
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RT @Athens_Stranger: This book is worth owning for study and reference. Especially for students of history, classics and biblical/theologi….
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Oh it’s lento alright.
Philology is . the leisurely art of the goldsmith applied to language: an art which must carry out slow, fine work, and attains nothing if not lento. —Friderich Nietzsche, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘢𝘺.
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Read with a friend if you can.
Spent an hour and a half this morning slowly re-reading Euthyphro by Plato, this time taking nearly 3 pages of notes. I started having trouble understanding the arguments mid-way through and I thought writing it out might help. It did, I still need to ponder it a bit more, but it
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I also love πλούταξ = "rich churl." We've got a few of those around. Brill's says the word is used by Eupolis and Menander.
Favorite paragraph in a grammar book?. Smyth §856. 🤭.
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RT @bretmulligan: now has customizable vocabulary for @DCComm's Luisa Sigea's Syntra & the Navigatio Sancti Brendan….
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This will be housed on and enriched DCC within a year or so.
Another free introductory Ancient Greek textbook with a neat web edition. By Wilfred E. Major from Louisiana State University and Michael Laughy from Washington and Lee University.
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RT @ehutchinson1513: It’s almost like Cornelius Nepos intentionally wrote so that we would have a way of reviewing all major syntactical co….
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