Never let the big tough warmongers forget that their intimidating "e pluribus unum" motto is actually from a Latin poem about a pesto recipe
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Never let the big tough warmongers forget that their intimidating "e pluribus unum" motto is actually from a Latin poem about a pesto recipe
It’s a terrible situation. The Labor government seems unlikely to do anything about it. They are as bad as their predecessors.
Thrilled that Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic is now published: www.cambridge.org/core/books/w... @awaws.org @lewismarkwebb.bsky.social @resaustrales.bsky.social @acrsn.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womensclasscaucus.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
(12) An erotic epiphany (but for whom?): Ovid, Amores 1.5.9-10
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March 13 hybrid/Brisbane (4pm AEST, E302 Forgan Smith) UQ Classics & Ancient History seminar: Professor Maria Wyke (UCL/2026 Visiting Professor UQ Centre for Western Civilisation), #Nero in the Early Years of Cinema hpi.uq.edu.au/event/sessio... Zoom: email d.pritchard@uq.edu.au
Greece & Rome Vol. 73 , No. 1 (2026) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @universitypress.cambridge.org @drdanielvazquez.bsky.social
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Latin literature | Greece & Rome | Cambridge Core
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It says a lot about the conservatives that they nominate a MAGA-style christian.
So too with the Aeneid. furor impius needs to be restrained (but it isn’t).
Revolting. Fortunately Labor already holds the seat. His chances of being elected are close to zero.
Cover image for edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic'. Depicts detail of a gilt bronze statue of a Roman woman. Pergola, Italy. c. 70-30 BCE.
Book description: In the Roman Republic, elite women were legally permitted to control substantial assets – and many demonstrably were in direct control of their wealth. They were also the mothers, wives and daughters of the politicians who built Rome's empire and, in a time of high mortality, could find themselves running households that did not contain adult men. This volume explores the political and social consequences of elite female wealth. It combines case studies of individual women, such as Licinia, wife of C. Gracchus, Mucia Tertia, Fulvia and Octavia Minor, with broader surveys of the institutional frameworks and social conventions that constrained and enabled women's wealth and its consequences. The book contributes to the recent upsurge of interest in re-evaluating the role of women in Republican Rome and will be invaluable for scholars and students alike.
Catherine Steel and I are thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic': www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
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Sneering (clowns?) at the British monarchy is cheap. That the monarchy was linked to empire is a banal truth.
So republics don’t practise colonialism? France? USA?
Great to see the new assessment of Ovid’s (?) Nux
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Helios Vol. 52, No. 1,(2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56530 @projectmuse.bsky.social @rantyben.bsky.social @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social
What a surprise! Completely shameless
Did I mention this is a continuing post?
‘The greatest empire that the world had ever seen to that point’. As Virgil knew, empires exist in time as well as space. Alexander’s lasted about ten minutes. Lucan got it right: ‘lucky bandit’.
Poster showing a manuscript image and giving the following information: PUBLIC LECTURE: Dr Sarah Corrigan Newman Tàin Bò Cuailgne: How the Manuscript Tradition of the Irish Epic Ended, and Ended Up, in Melbourne. The St Mary’s Newman Academic Centre (SNAC), Manuscript Táin Bó Cuailnge (‘The Cattle Raid of Cooley’) is a nineteenth-century manuscript copy of the most famous Irish narrative of the Middle Ages. Although its oldest surviving copies were produced in the twelfth century, the story of the Táin is set in the first century, and it has been argued to have been written in several periods in between. This talk will highlight the dual significance of this beautiful manuscript by exploring the history of its contents, the physical object, and its creator, Seosamh Ó Longáin, the last official scribe of Ireland. Wednesday 11 March 2026 5–6pm Venue: The Oratory, Newman College, University of Melbourne, 887 Swanston Street, Parkville. Bookings / Free Entry Online: https://www.trybooking.com/DJULZ Email: outreach@snac.unimelb.edu.au Telephone: (03) 9342 1614
And will have more opportunity to talk about the fantastic project of getting @rialibrary.bsky.social MS 24 B 1 digitised and displaying and discussing it alongside the Newman College Táin manuscript here @unimelb.edu.au ...
In Gargantua (ed. princ. 1535) Rabelais has his narrator describe the accidental discovery and unearthing of a bronze tomb containing ancient writings. One of these he appends to his account, in fragmentary form, “par reverence de l’antiquaille” (sic). At the same time the whole rollicking account is a singular illustration of Rabelais’ irreverence, as the collection’s editor shows in his introduction, where he foreshadows the diversity of approaches to the ancient literary inheritance that the book explores. Some obvious diversities emerge in the titles of the four sections into which the book is divided, and the wide range of figures and topics discussed in them. The first three sections treat transmission and reception through the lenses of different categories: editors, commentators and translators; encyclopedists and philologists; and poets. The last returns to veneranda antiquitas via Guillaume Budé (“premier révérent de l’antique en France”, p. 198) and Rabelais himself.
#classicalreception @ BMCR #review Frances Muecke (Sydney) on Nicolas Le Cadet, "Révérence de l’antiquaille." Les diverses formes de transmission du patrimoine textuel antique à la Renaissance bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03...
Helios Vol. 51, No. 2 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56469 @projectmuse.bsky.social @ekmoodie.bsky.social
#CFP #PACRIM34 34th Meeting of the Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar. Theme: #TRAGEDY - Melbourne, July 20-22, 2026 - due by April 1 to pacrimlatin2026@gmail.com
March 5-8 Adelaide Festival: Works & Days (FC Bergman) - "Inspired by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s original verse.., eight highly physical performers embody the rituals of toil, tradition and transformation, without a single word spoken" Book $ www.adelaidefestival.com.au/whats-on/sea...
Great to see the ANU Classics Museum and the work of Prof Elizabeth Minchin and Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney featured on ABC News! 🏛️🏺
"The collection has all the latest interior decor, gadgets and gizmos during ancient Greek and Roman times ... akin to peering into a kitchen cupboard 2,000 years ago"
Sappho’s Trajectory: The Construction of an Eschatological Experience | The Cambridge Classical Journal | Cambridge Core
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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...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Roman Arena
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It’s actually a complex matter. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and other countries will have to agree.
