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News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications
Materia Philosophiae. Material Dimensions of Ancient Philosophy / William Wians & Robert Hahn, eds. #openaccess @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social brill.com/display/titl...
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Fri Nov 14 12:00pm EST François Pacha Miran on Shaping the Lectionary: Liturgical Readings and the Genesis of Syriac Manuscript Illumination (11th–13th c.). | Yale Institute of Sacred Music ism.yale.edu/events/2025-...
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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“Philosophy and poetry are distinct inventions. But each suffers by keeping the other at arm’s length. The fates of philosophical and poetic understanding are intertwined. They have a single history.”

Elaine Scarry on Plato and the poets:
Plato and the Poets - Boston Review
The centuries-old debate should be settled: an intellectual world bereft of poetry is a damaged one.
www.bostonreview.net
October 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
New issue of Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 144, No. 3 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55864 @projectmuse.bsky.social @sblsite.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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In this new blog post I defend the use of the term "philosophy" to describe non-European intellectual traditions.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/philosophy-w...

(link corrected from a previous post)

#philosophy #philsky
www.historyofphilosophy.net
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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🏺 It's been such a pleasure talking with @sentantiq.bsky.social, Hristomir Hristov, Monica Silveira Cyrino, Louise Hitchcock, Tom Palaima, Andrew McClellan, and up next is @helenlovatt.bsky.social! Season One is coming together!

#podcast #Greek #epic #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #Homer #love
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
New issue of Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde No. 56 (2025) www.fera-journal.eu/index.php/oj... #openaccess
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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A much more exciting week brought 76 #Manuscripts online at the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a glossed Priscian, a bunch of 17th C Barberini stuff, a pile more Ge'ez, many Cicero, Iñigo de Mendoça's Spanish _Vita Christiana_, and MORE
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 45 of 2025
A total of seventy-six manuscripts were digitized this past week. Barb.lat, with twenty-nine, and Ott.lat with twenty-eight, contributed the majority of the volumes, following recent patterns. A full ...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
New issue of the Indo-Iranian Journal Vol. 68, No. 3 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Our November newsletter is out now! Catch up on our recent posts, other publications from our contributors, announcements, and more:

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November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @rhigarthjones.bsky.social discusses Ottoman receptions of Roman antiquity. Then, Black Death mythbusting; wampum beads in Canada; celebrating Native American Heritage Month; ancient Mexican coprolites; ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more!
Pasts Imperfect (11.6.25)
This week, historian of early Islamic material culture Rhiannon Garth Jones breaks down the reception of Roman antiquity during the Ottoman Empire. Then, dispelling myths about the Black Death; archae...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
New volume of Classica Cracoviensia Vol. 28 (2025) journals.akademicka.pl/cc/issue/vie... #openaccess @mikeaztec.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Today on #HoPWaG we're joined by Gideon Manning to hear about medicine in Descartes and amongst the Cartesians! A fascinating discussion of method, dualism, the circulatory system, and much more.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesian-me...

#philsky #descartes #philosophy #podcast
November 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
New issue of Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt Vol. 54 No. 4 (2024) journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ak... #openaccess @propylaeum.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
New issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Vol. 68, No. 1 (2025) academic.oup.com/bics/issue/6... @ics.bsky.social @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social @camwachowich.bsky.social @graemeyward.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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64. Ramsay MacMullen, "Persecution" from Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries
open.spotify.com/episode/4sGM...
64. Ramsay MacMullen, "Persecution" from Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries
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November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Thursday Nov. 6 5pm EST African connections with Anglo-Saxon England? New insights from ancient DNA (Joscha Gretzinger, Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, John Hines ) sohp.fas.harvard.edu/event/africa... Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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+++ Newsletter +++

Im November blicken wir auf Märtyrerinnen, Mythen und moderne Methoden: von nordafrikanischen Heiligen über steinzeitliche Fundplätze bis zu digitalen Zwillingen in der Archäologie. Außerdem laden wir zu unserer Festveranstaltung in der James-Simon-Galerie ein.

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November 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM