I'm very glad to have contributed three articles to Wiley's Encyclopedia of Ancient History. They were published online a few days ago as part of the summer update.

The second and final part of my study on the pastoral characterization of Constantine in the works of Eusebius has been published on Brill's website, ahead of its inclusion in vol. 93 of Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis later this year.

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My article on the TV adaptation of The Last of Us has just been published in the winter issue of Literature/Film Quarterly: lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/53_1...

Two experiments with non-expert poetry readers? I am afraid the lesson here is not that AI poetry is indistinguishable from human poetry, but that AI writing may indeed be marketable and successful—not because it is good, but precisely because it is simpler and dumber (so, worse) than human writing.

There are a couple of very famous descriptions of battling bulls in Virgil's Aeneid and Georgics, which might interest you. The translations are mine:

Our cat has recently discovered Rudolf Pesch's Kommentar zum Markus-Evangelium and seems to thoroughly enjoy it.

I dislike the term 'pagan' too, more than 'barbarian' even. I often use the term 'non-Christian,' which has obvious issues as a general alternative, but it seems a pretty neutral way of referring to groups of people when the contextual need is precisely that of distinguishing them from Christians.