Chris Francese
@francese.bsky.social
Project Director of Dickinson College Commentaries dcc.dickinson.edu
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Very intrigued by the new media coming out with ancient inspired titles. Like Pluribus and Bugonia...
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Very intrigued by the new media coming out with ancient inspired titles. Like Pluribus and Bugonia...
If anybody wants to pitch a good Neo-Latin text to DCC, please do! dcc.dickinson.edu/contribute
October 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If anybody wants to pitch a good Neo-Latin text to DCC, please do! dcc.dickinson.edu/contribute
Thinking ahead to next summer ... just announced: Conventiculum Dickinsoniense 2026. blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2025/10/...
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Thinking ahead to next summer ... just announced: Conventiculum Dickinsoniense 2026. blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2025/10/...
Perfect.
Used my two new examples today to teach subjective and objective genitives:
Subjective: the judgement of Paris
Objective: the abduction of Helen
#MagistraGetsToTeach101
Subjective: the judgement of Paris
Objective: the abduction of Helen
#MagistraGetsToTeach101
a hand is holding a golden apple with a smiley face on it
Alt: a golden apple.
media.tenor.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Perfect.
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Coming soon: first English translation of the ancient scholia to the Iliad. Books 1 and 2.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
The Ancient Scholia to Homer's Iliad
Cambridge Core - Classical Literature - The Ancient Scholia to Homer's Iliad
www.cambridge.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Coming soon: first English translation of the ancient scholia to the Iliad. Books 1 and 2.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
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LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Myyhologiae Classicae) is a great, albeit idiosyncratic, resource that takes some effort to work with
September 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Myyhologiae Classicae) is a great, albeit idiosyncratic, resource that takes some effort to work with
Very excited indeed to welcome poet, translator, and essayist A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social to Dickinson for the 27th Annual Roberts Lectures, October 10 and 11, 2025. Please join us for one or both if you are able! www.dickinson.edu/info/20033/c...
September 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Very excited indeed to welcome poet, translator, and essayist A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social to Dickinson for the 27th Annual Roberts Lectures, October 10 and 11, 2025. Please join us for one or both if you are able! www.dickinson.edu/info/20033/c...
"This project gave me hope for Classics." The 2025 DCC High School Internship Program Is a Wrap blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2025/08/...
August 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"This project gave me hope for Classics." The 2025 DCC High School Internship Program Is a Wrap blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2025/08/...
Latin scansion basics, with video: dcc.dickinson.edu/ovid-amores/...
July 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Latin scansion basics, with video: dcc.dickinson.edu/ovid-amores/...
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I did two Classics themed panels at a Con this weekend and my takeaway is that more classicists should do panels at nerd Cons because a) the attendees are interested and b) so much of sci-fi/fantasy/speculative fiction is rooted in myth/history/etc.
July 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I did two Classics themed panels at a Con this weekend and my takeaway is that more classicists should do panels at nerd Cons because a) the attendees are interested and b) so much of sci-fi/fantasy/speculative fiction is rooted in myth/history/etc.
NEW at DCC: Elizabeth Manwell (Kalamazoo College), Vergil: Georgics 4. dcc.dickinson.edu/vergil-georg...
June 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
NEW at DCC: Elizabeth Manwell (Kalamazoo College), Vergil: Georgics 4. dcc.dickinson.edu/vergil-georg...
William Turpin's (@swarthmore) new DCC edition of Gesta Francorum has all the bells and whistles. I am loving these new maps by the amazing Gabriel Moss. Just click on the media tab here. dcc.dickinson.edu/gesta-franco...
June 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
William Turpin's (@swarthmore) new DCC edition of Gesta Francorum has all the bells and whistles. I am loving these new maps by the amazing Gabriel Moss. Just click on the media tab here. dcc.dickinson.edu/gesta-franco...
NEW at DCC: Gesta Francorum, edited by William Turpin. Latin text, running vocab, notes, audio and new maps by Gabriel Moss dcc.dickinson.edu/gesta-francoru…
https://dcc.dickinson.edu/gesta-francoru…
June 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
NEW at DCC: Gesta Francorum, edited by William Turpin. Latin text, running vocab, notes, audio and new maps by Gabriel Moss dcc.dickinson.edu/gesta-francoru…
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Evergreen: Why not to bother learning more than three principal (really, just two) parts in the first instance (data compiled by Rolf Noyer at Penn)
March 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Evergreen: Why not to bother learning more than three principal (really, just two) parts in the first instance (data compiled by Rolf Noyer at Penn)
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#SunoikisisDC session tomorrow: Analysing and Visualising Text, with Kaspar Beelen (University of London) & Megan Bushnell (Oxford Text Archive). ics.sas.ac.uk/events/sunoi...
SunoikisisDC: Analysing and visualising texts
ics.sas.ac.uk
February 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
#SunoikisisDC session tomorrow: Analysing and Visualising Text, with Kaspar Beelen (University of London) & Megan Bushnell (Oxford Text Archive). ics.sas.ac.uk/events/sunoi...
There will be 90 (count ‘em, ninety) DCC Summer High School Interns this year. It’s a very talented group, will be working about 5 hours per week on Vergil, Gesta Francorum, Pliny, Elegiac Romulus, images for the core vocab, and data for The Bridge. Thanks to teachers who recommended it!
February 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
There will be 90 (count ‘em, ninety) DCC Summer High School Interns this year. It’s a very talented group, will be working about 5 hours per week on Vergil, Gesta Francorum, Pliny, Elegiac Romulus, images for the core vocab, and data for The Bridge. Thanks to teachers who recommended it!
Interesting question raised here. What is archaeologically distinctive about a lupanar, as opposed to a taberna?
Project MUSE - Houses of Ill Repute
muse.jhu.edu/book/127380
muse.jhu.edu/book/127380
Project MUSE - Houses of Ill Repute
muse.jhu.edu
February 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Interesting question raised here. What is archaeologically distinctive about a lupanar, as opposed to a taberna?
One of the successful team in the Vesuvius Challenge. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
February 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
One of the successful team in the Vesuvius Challenge. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
It seems like I spend the first years of a student's college career telling them that the humanities are essential for a good life, then, when they decide to go to graduate school in the humanities I want to tell them "Get out, it's a death trap, a suicide rap."
February 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
It seems like I spend the first years of a student's college career telling them that the humanities are essential for a good life, then, when they decide to go to graduate school in the humanities I want to tell them "Get out, it's a death trap, a suicide rap."
February 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Who Killed Marrucinus Asinius? | Dickinson College Commentaries
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Who Killed Marrucinus Asinius? | Dickinson College Commentaries
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January 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Who Killed Marrucinus Asinius? | Dickinson College Commentaries
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We should see AI in the writing process as analogous to the topoi or loci communes of classical rhetoric: a way to get your thinking started with basic, common types of arguments, to be refined and applied to your situation.
January 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
We should see AI in the writing process as analogous to the topoi or loci communes of classical rhetoric: a way to get your thinking started with basic, common types of arguments, to be refined and applied to your situation.
A fine scholar who will be missed.
Edward Champlin, eminent Roman history scholar and ‘powerful mentor,’ dies at 76
www.princeton.edu/news/2025/01...
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Edward Champlin, eminent Roman history scholar and ‘powerful mentor,’ dies at 76
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January 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A fine scholar who will be missed.
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