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A Classic Book Reading List: 101 Timeless Masterpieces You Must Read Before You Die by Legacy Creative Press, 2025

With bite-sized summaries and just enough info, you’ll know exactly which classics are right for you—no sweat!

101 Must-Reads, Made Easy: This isn’t a dense academic textbook—it’s a fun, approachable list to help you explore the classics at your own pace.

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New paper on machine learning for #epigraphy

Assael, Yannis, Thea Sommerschield, Alison Cooley, et al. “Contextualizing Ancient Texts with Generative Neural Networks.” Nature, July 23, 2025, 1–7. doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-092.

"Human history is born in writing. Inscriptions are among the earliest written forms, and offer direct insights into the thought, language and history of ancient civilizations. Historians capture these insights by identifying parallels—inscriptions with shared phrasing, function or cultural setting—to enable the contextualization of texts within broader historical frameworks, and perform key tasks such as restoration and geographical or chronological attribution1. However, current digital methods are restricted to literal matches and narrow historical scopes. Here we introduce Aeneas, a generative neural network for contextualizing ancient texts. Aeneas retrieves textual and contextual parallels, leverages visual inputs, handles ..."

CfP DIGITAL CLASSICIST SEMINAR BERLIN 2025/26.
All info here: digital-classicist.bbaw.de/cfp. Deadline: 16 August 2025.
This year's series focuses on the theme of **“Potential and Limits of Digital Methods”**. Digital methods offer enormous potential: they enable the precise documentation and analysis of sources and finds and facilitate access to data via digital platforms. They open up new perspectives on cultures from early times to late antiquity and allow for innovative research questions. At the same time, however, limitations are also apparent, for example due to technical and legal requirements, data incompatibilities, or methodological challenges. Possible topics could include: visualizations and their epistemic value; the application and long-term reusability of digital methods; reproducibility of results; challenges of big data, etc. We particularly encourage early career researchers to submit a paper! #digiclass #classics #digitalhumanities @antiquidons

Classics librarian job: The University of Cincinnati Libraries seek to fill the position of Head of the John Miller Burnam Classics Library. The Head of the Classics Library provides services to the internationally recognized Classics Department, researchers, faculty, and students. The successful candidate for this tenure track position will continue to enhance the library’s reputation as a world-class, top-ranking research library for Classics scholars at UC and globally.

(On a personal note, I can vouch that this is one of the top Classics libraries in the US. It has an individual endowment that has enabled it to maintain a vigorous acquisition policy in an era of library funding cuts.)

More information at the link below.
jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinnati-Hea

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jobs.uc.eduHead of the John Miller Burnam, UCL Classics LibrarianHead of the John Miller Burnam, UCL Classics Librarian

This is a series of stories based on a famous real-life judge in China during the Song dynasty. It was written centuries ago, and one of the defining memories of my childhood is my dad giving me these very books to read. It has pictures but also Chinese and English writing. Rereading them and am amused by the fact that as a kid, I was reading about tortures, poisonings and how every story's "happy" ending ends with a decapitation of a bad guy. We Chinese kids have quite a morbid and grim diet for bedtime stories, looks like 😅

In that sense, I think we have something in common with the Germans 🤣

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Classics (2026-2028), Dartmouth College

"We seek candidates with specialization in any of these fields: Comparative slavery studies in ancient cultures broadly defined (e.g. Egypt, Mesopotamia, China); Queer studies; Disability studies; Critical reception studies (e.g. Africana receptions, Luso-Hispanic, Asian/Asian-American). For all of these fields, we will prioritize candidates whose research is informed by digital humanities methods."

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Inside Higher Ed CareersMellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Classics (2026-2028) - Hanover, NH job with Dartmouth College | 3366394Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Classics (2026-2028) Location: Hanover, NH Open Date: Jul 1, 2025 Close Date: Sep 17, 2025 Descriptio
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DONE! My translation is just a wee bit different than Fagles and Lombardo.

"Next, [Bellerophon] fought against the renowned Solymi, who were renowed in battle in the past. Thus, at any rate, it was said to be the strongest battle he had ever entered into. And thus furthermore, lastly, he slew the Amazons, who were a match for men."

And yes, if my translation sounds FORMAL, that's because Homeric Greek is FORMAL!

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