William M. Barton
@krithemp.bsky.social
Greek & Latin | Early modern literature | Uni Innsbruck | sometimes running | 📀
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Very pleased to announce that The Classical Quarterly 75.1 (2025) has now been published. It contains 36 articles and 9 shorter notes. It can be accessed here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 22, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Very pleased to announce that The Classical Quarterly 75.1 (2025) has now been published. It contains 36 articles and 9 shorter notes. It can be accessed here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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We are excited to host Samet Budak (Princeton) next Thursday 29 January at 5PM CET (note the unusual timeslot!).
The topic of his paper is Greek translations in the early Ottoman period!
If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.
The topic of his paper is Greek translations in the early Ottoman period!
If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.
January 22, 2026 at 9:48 AM
We are excited to host Samet Budak (Princeton) next Thursday 29 January at 5PM CET (note the unusual timeslot!).
The topic of his paper is Greek translations in the early Ottoman period!
If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.
The topic of his paper is Greek translations in the early Ottoman period!
If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.
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An important intervention in the House of Lords by Baronness Coussins on the sustainability of language learning in the UK: www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=20...
Schools and Universities: Language Learning - Motion to Take Note
– in the House of Lords at 3:37 pm 8 January 2026
www.theyworkforyou.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:15 AM
An important intervention in the House of Lords by Baronness Coussins on the sustainability of language learning in the UK: www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=20...
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I spent Christmas thinking about Greco-Bactrian kings and Greek texts in Nubia, and now you can too!
If you'd welcome some distraction from Armageddon, here's my January mega-post, all about the Greek language's life beyond Europe.
dannybate.com/2026/01/06/g...
If you'd welcome some distraction from Armageddon, here's my January mega-post, all about the Greek language's life beyond Europe.
dannybate.com/2026/01/06/g...
Greek, the Asian and African Language
Just as the borders of Europe are geographically, politically and socially fuzzy, so too are its linguistic edges. Whatever lines of demarcation we care to draw, the many flavours of speech to be h…
dannybate.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:49 AM
I spent Christmas thinking about Greco-Bactrian kings and Greek texts in Nubia, and now you can too!
If you'd welcome some distraction from Armageddon, here's my January mega-post, all about the Greek language's life beyond Europe.
dannybate.com/2026/01/06/g...
If you'd welcome some distraction from Armageddon, here's my January mega-post, all about the Greek language's life beyond Europe.
dannybate.com/2026/01/06/g...
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📜 Pages from the Childhood Notebook of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (the Conqueror), c. 1440 (Ages 7–10)
The pages contain the Greek alphabet written by his tutor, alongside his own experimental imperial tughra designs, the Arabic alphabet, as well as various human and animal portraits. #15thCentury
The pages contain the Greek alphabet written by his tutor, alongside his own experimental imperial tughra designs, the Arabic alphabet, as well as various human and animal portraits. #15thCentury
December 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
📜 Pages from the Childhood Notebook of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (the Conqueror), c. 1440 (Ages 7–10)
The pages contain the Greek alphabet written by his tutor, alongside his own experimental imperial tughra designs, the Arabic alphabet, as well as various human and animal portraits. #15thCentury
The pages contain the Greek alphabet written by his tutor, alongside his own experimental imperial tughra designs, the Arabic alphabet, as well as various human and animal portraits. #15thCentury
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🎉 MERCI!
L'Université d'Ottawa a levé la suspension d'admissions au programme en Antiquité grecque et romaine. Merci à toutes les personnes qui ont signé, partagé, écrit des lettres et fait entendre leur voix. Choisissez le programme Antiquité grecque et romaine :
L'Université d'Ottawa a levé la suspension d'admissions au programme en Antiquité grecque et romaine. Merci à toutes les personnes qui ont signé, partagé, écrit des lettres et fait entendre leur voix. Choisissez le programme Antiquité grecque et romaine :
Antiquité grecque et romaine | Faculté des arts
Découvrez toutes les bonnes raisons de choisir l’Université d’Ottawa. Des programmes conçus pour vous, un encadrement exceptionnel, des possibilités de stages coopératifs et plus encore.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🎉 MERCI!
L'Université d'Ottawa a levé la suspension d'admissions au programme en Antiquité grecque et romaine. Merci à toutes les personnes qui ont signé, partagé, écrit des lettres et fait entendre leur voix. Choisissez le programme Antiquité grecque et romaine :
L'Université d'Ottawa a levé la suspension d'admissions au programme en Antiquité grecque et romaine. Merci à toutes les personnes qui ont signé, partagé, écrit des lettres et fait entendre leur voix. Choisissez le programme Antiquité grecque et romaine :
Honoured to be contributing a session next year to the TeTra Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social. Check out the 2026 programme below! I’m talking about translating Byzantine epistolography in 17th-cent. Spain on 11 June :)
From all of us at TeTra, happy holidays and a wonderful end to what has been an amazing 2025!
Our little Christmas gift to you is the preliminary programme for 2026, now available on our website: tetra.univie.ac.at. See you next year!
Our little Christmas gift to you is the preliminary programme for 2026, now available on our website: tetra.univie.ac.at. See you next year!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
Roman Gundacker (Austrian Academy of Sciences / University of Vienna)Manetho’s Aegyptiaca: A Long, Crooked, And Rocky Path from Egyptian Sources to Byzantine Manuscripts
tetra.univie.ac.at
December 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Honoured to be contributing a session next year to the TeTra Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social. Check out the 2026 programme below! I’m talking about translating Byzantine epistolography in 17th-cent. Spain on 11 June :)
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From all of us at TeTra, happy holidays and a wonderful end to what has been an amazing 2025!
Our little Christmas gift to you is the preliminary programme for 2026, now available on our website: tetra.univie.ac.at. See you next year!
Our little Christmas gift to you is the preliminary programme for 2026, now available on our website: tetra.univie.ac.at. See you next year!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
Roman Gundacker (Austrian Academy of Sciences / University of Vienna)Manetho’s Aegyptiaca: A Long, Crooked, And Rocky Path from Egyptian Sources to Byzantine Manuscripts
tetra.univie.ac.at
December 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
From all of us at TeTra, happy holidays and a wonderful end to what has been an amazing 2025!
Our little Christmas gift to you is the preliminary programme for 2026, now available on our website: tetra.univie.ac.at. See you next year!
Our little Christmas gift to you is the preliminary programme for 2026, now available on our website: tetra.univie.ac.at. See you next year!
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The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Old English and proficiency in Medieval Latin? If yes, then you may be interested in this fixed term full time post...
jobs.kent.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Delighted to see New Ancient Greek alongside Neo-Latin at this @neolatinsociety.bsky.social event :) If you’re a postgraduate or EC scholar working in these fields, please consider submitting an abstract!
SNLS Call for Papers!
The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising an online event for PhD students and ECR colleagues. See flyer for more details! #NeoLatin #AncientGreek
The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising an online event for PhD students and ECR colleagues. See flyer for more details! #NeoLatin #AncientGreek
December 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Delighted to see New Ancient Greek alongside Neo-Latin at this @neolatinsociety.bsky.social event :) If you’re a postgraduate or EC scholar working in these fields, please consider submitting an abstract!
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SNLS Call for Papers!
The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising an online event for PhD students and ECR colleagues. See flyer for more details! #NeoLatin #AncientGreek
The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising an online event for PhD students and ECR colleagues. See flyer for more details! #NeoLatin #AncientGreek
December 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
SNLS Call for Papers!
The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising an online event for PhD students and ECR colleagues. See flyer for more details! #NeoLatin #AncientGreek
The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising an online event for PhD students and ECR colleagues. See flyer for more details! #NeoLatin #AncientGreek
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I am offering two doctoral positions (65%) in the Junior Research Group “Sustainability in Translation” (buff.ly/HULoKXy) at the University of Würzburg in Germany.
1. buff.ly/6M9fEyk
2. buff.ly/Mq4uuAm
(both until 06.01.2026)
Please share widely.
#TranslationStudies #ClassicalReceptionStudies #DH
1. buff.ly/6M9fEyk
2. buff.ly/Mq4uuAm
(both until 06.01.2026)
Please share widely.
#TranslationStudies #ClassicalReceptionStudies #DH
Junior Research Group „Sustainability in Translation“ - Junior Research Group Sustainability in Translation
The Junior Research Group develops an interdisciplinary approach to analysing the relation between the genre of translation and sustainability, combining methods from Translation Studies,…
www.klassphil.uni-wuerzburg.de
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I am offering two doctoral positions (65%) in the Junior Research Group “Sustainability in Translation” (buff.ly/HULoKXy) at the University of Würzburg in Germany.
1. buff.ly/6M9fEyk
2. buff.ly/Mq4uuAm
(both until 06.01.2026)
Please share widely.
#TranslationStudies #ClassicalReceptionStudies #DH
1. buff.ly/6M9fEyk
2. buff.ly/Mq4uuAm
(both until 06.01.2026)
Please share widely.
#TranslationStudies #ClassicalReceptionStudies #DH
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👉 Han Lamers and @nconstantinidou.bsky.social, two of the project’s PIs will be participating at the International Conference
📌‘Relics of Byzantium Diasporic Agency of People, Objects, Texts, and Images’ (Freie Universität, Berlin)
📆 4–5 December, 2025
📌‘Relics of Byzantium Diasporic Agency of People, Objects, Texts, and Images’ (Freie Universität, Berlin)
📆 4–5 December, 2025
December 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
👉 Han Lamers and @nconstantinidou.bsky.social, two of the project’s PIs will be participating at the International Conference
📌‘Relics of Byzantium Diasporic Agency of People, Objects, Texts, and Images’ (Freie Universität, Berlin)
📆 4–5 December, 2025
📌‘Relics of Byzantium Diasporic Agency of People, Objects, Texts, and Images’ (Freie Universität, Berlin)
📆 4–5 December, 2025
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📣 The deadline to apply for our summer school on Greek-Latin bilingualism from antiquity to early modern times is approaching (Leuven, 12-18 July 2026). Please spread the word!
More information: www.dalet.be/Summer%20Sch...
@digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
@neolatinsociety.bsky.social
More information: www.dalet.be/Summer%20Sch...
@digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
@neolatinsociety.bsky.social
www.dalet.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
📣 The deadline to apply for our summer school on Greek-Latin bilingualism from antiquity to early modern times is approaching (Leuven, 12-18 July 2026). Please spread the word!
More information: www.dalet.be/Summer%20Sch...
@digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
@neolatinsociety.bsky.social
More information: www.dalet.be/Summer%20Sch...
@digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
@neolatinsociety.bsky.social
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📢 Join Han Lamers and me for our 3rd Early Modern Hellenism Colloquium
👉Francesco Trespidi will present on 'Kostantinos Kalogereas' Lacrymae Graeciae (1642): Hybrid Identity and Hellenic Heritage in Early Modern Venice'
📆online Thurs, 27 Nov., 3-4.00 CET
📍register here: nettskjema.no/a/hellenism
👉Francesco Trespidi will present on 'Kostantinos Kalogereas' Lacrymae Graeciae (1642): Hybrid Identity and Hellenic Heritage in Early Modern Venice'
📆online Thurs, 27 Nov., 3-4.00 CET
📍register here: nettskjema.no/a/hellenism
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
📢 Join Han Lamers and me for our 3rd Early Modern Hellenism Colloquium
👉Francesco Trespidi will present on 'Kostantinos Kalogereas' Lacrymae Graeciae (1642): Hybrid Identity and Hellenic Heritage in Early Modern Venice'
📆online Thurs, 27 Nov., 3-4.00 CET
📍register here: nettskjema.no/a/hellenism
👉Francesco Trespidi will present on 'Kostantinos Kalogereas' Lacrymae Graeciae (1642): Hybrid Identity and Hellenic Heritage in Early Modern Venice'
📆online Thurs, 27 Nov., 3-4.00 CET
📍register here: nettskjema.no/a/hellenism
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Autumn Lecture: 'Deciphering the Herculaneum papyri', by Professor Richard Janko
20 November, 6pm, Room G7, Senate House, London.
Come and join us - no booking needed! We will film the lecture and put it on our YouTube channel too. www.youtube.com/user/Helleni...
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
20 November, 6pm, Room G7, Senate House, London.
Come and join us - no booking needed! We will film the lecture and put it on our YouTube channel too. www.youtube.com/user/Helleni...
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Autumn Lecture: 'Deciphering the Herculaneum papyri', by Professor Richard Janko
20 November, 6pm, Room G7, Senate House, London.
Come and join us - no booking needed! We will film the lecture and put it on our YouTube channel too. www.youtube.com/user/Helleni...
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
20 November, 6pm, Room G7, Senate House, London.
Come and join us - no booking needed! We will film the lecture and put it on our YouTube channel too. www.youtube.com/user/Helleni...
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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📚 Γνώριζες ότι πάνω από 5.000 ελληνικά βιβλία τυπώθηκαν στη Δυτική Ευρώπη μεταξύ 1450 και 1600 μ.Χ.;
🤔 Θα έχουμε την ευκαιρία να δούμε από κοντά μια επιλογή τέτοιων σπάνιων παλαίτυπων, στο πλαίσιο της τελικής εκδήλωσης του προγράμματος GrECI (WIDERA/Twinning Horizon Europe) 👉
🤔 Θα έχουμε την ευκαιρία να δούμε από κοντά μια επιλογή τέτοιων σπάνιων παλαίτυπων, στο πλαίσιο της τελικής εκδήλωσης του προγράμματος GrECI (WIDERA/Twinning Horizon Europe) 👉
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
📚 Γνώριζες ότι πάνω από 5.000 ελληνικά βιβλία τυπώθηκαν στη Δυτική Ευρώπη μεταξύ 1450 και 1600 μ.Χ.;
🤔 Θα έχουμε την ευκαιρία να δούμε από κοντά μια επιλογή τέτοιων σπάνιων παλαίτυπων, στο πλαίσιο της τελικής εκδήλωσης του προγράμματος GrECI (WIDERA/Twinning Horizon Europe) 👉
🤔 Θα έχουμε την ευκαιρία να δούμε από κοντά μια επιλογή τέτοιων σπάνιων παλαίτυπων, στο πλαίσιο της τελικής εκδήλωσης του προγράμματος GrECI (WIDERA/Twinning Horizon Europe) 👉
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Starting Nov 26 (4pm CET) - online Prolepsis Research Network seminar series "#NeoClassica: Texts and Perspectives from the Early Modern Classical Tradition" listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Link: email prolepsis.network@gmail.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Starting Nov 26 (4pm CET) - online Prolepsis Research Network seminar series "#NeoClassica: Texts and Perspectives from the Early Modern Classical Tradition" listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Link: email prolepsis.network@gmail.com
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Portrait of the Author?
This doodle inside the front cover of a 1491 edition of a book by esteemed Greek literature scholar Manuel Chrysoloras (1350-1415). What do you think,are the hat and nose a match? 🤔
#NewberryLibrary (Inc. 7132) i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...
This doodle inside the front cover of a 1491 edition of a book by esteemed Greek literature scholar Manuel Chrysoloras (1350-1415). What do you think,are the hat and nose a match? 🤔
#NewberryLibrary (Inc. 7132) i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Portrait of the Author?
This doodle inside the front cover of a 1491 edition of a book by esteemed Greek literature scholar Manuel Chrysoloras (1350-1415). What do you think,are the hat and nose a match? 🤔
#NewberryLibrary (Inc. 7132) i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...
This doodle inside the front cover of a 1491 edition of a book by esteemed Greek literature scholar Manuel Chrysoloras (1350-1415). What do you think,are the hat and nose a match? 🤔
#NewberryLibrary (Inc. 7132) i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...
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The new acquisitions table in our Library's Reading Room has been updated!
Find books on #Optics, #Astronomy, #Hegel, and #Artemisia. You can also explore 'An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature', which has been co-edited and includes chapters by the Warburg’s own Lucy R. Nicholas!
Find books on #Optics, #Astronomy, #Hegel, and #Artemisia. You can also explore 'An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature', which has been co-edited and includes chapters by the Warburg’s own Lucy R. Nicholas!
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The new acquisitions table in our Library's Reading Room has been updated!
Find books on #Optics, #Astronomy, #Hegel, and #Artemisia. You can also explore 'An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature', which has been co-edited and includes chapters by the Warburg’s own Lucy R. Nicholas!
Find books on #Optics, #Astronomy, #Hegel, and #Artemisia. You can also explore 'An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature', which has been co-edited and includes chapters by the Warburg’s own Lucy R. Nicholas!
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The ΛΑΓΩΟΣ project (lagoos.org) has published the 3rd instalment of its ongoing edition of K.B. Hase’s secret diary. The 1839 volume is out now online (app.transkribus.org/sites/lagoos) with Greek text, English summaries, and notes on significant entities. 1839 saw Hase’s visit to Algiers inter alia
November 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The ΛΑΓΩΟΣ project (lagoos.org) has published the 3rd instalment of its ongoing edition of K.B. Hase’s secret diary. The 1839 volume is out now online (app.transkribus.org/sites/lagoos) with Greek text, English summaries, and notes on significant entities. 1839 saw Hase’s visit to Algiers inter alia
The ΛΑΓΩΟΣ project (lagoos.org) has published the 3rd instalment of its ongoing edition of K.B. Hase’s secret diary. The 1839 volume is out now online (app.transkribus.org/sites/lagoos) with Greek text, English summaries, and notes on significant entities. 1839 saw Hase’s visit to Algiers inter alia
November 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The ΛΑΓΩΟΣ project (lagoos.org) has published the 3rd instalment of its ongoing edition of K.B. Hase’s secret diary. The 1839 volume is out now online (app.transkribus.org/sites/lagoos) with Greek text, English summaries, and notes on significant entities. 1839 saw Hase’s visit to Algiers inter alia
Reposted by William M. Barton
Lecture (via Zoom): "Hebrew Texts and Their Greek Reflections," by Julia G. Krivoruchko, November 5 2025, 4:45pm EST mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/hebrew...
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Lecture (via Zoom): "Hebrew Texts and Their Greek Reflections," by Julia G. Krivoruchko, November 5 2025, 4:45pm EST mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/hebrew...
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#classicalreception @ BMCR #review: Adriana Vazquez on Andrew Laird, Aztec Latin: Renaissance learning and Nahuatl traditions in early colonial Mexico bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.10... "exceeding far beyond the narrow limits of the classical conversation"
bmcr.brynmawr.edu
October 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#classicalreception @ BMCR #review: Adriana Vazquez on Andrew Laird, Aztec Latin: Renaissance learning and Nahuatl traditions in early colonial Mexico bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.10... "exceeding far beyond the narrow limits of the classical conversation"
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GenAut seminar recording | Jonathon Lookadoo •The Authoritative Potential of Ignatius of Antioch in the Ignatian Martyrdom Tradition•
The program: genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671
The program: genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671
GenAut | Jonathon Lookadoo "The Authority of Ignatius of Antioch in the Ignatian Martyrdoms"
YouTube video by The GenAut Project
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October 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
GenAut seminar recording | Jonathon Lookadoo •The Authoritative Potential of Ignatius of Antioch in the Ignatian Martyrdom Tradition•
The program: genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671
The program: genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671