Classical art historian Annetta Alexandridis dies at 58 | Cornell Chronicle Annetta Alexandridis, a classical archaeologist known for her hands-on approach to research and teaching, died April 13 in New York City.

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Scholium to Pindar (N. 8.37 Drachmann): “For no one envies Thersites; they envy Agamemnon.”

Women and Resistance in the "Annals" of Tacitus by Caitlin C. Gillespie | Hardcover | Cornell University Press Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Throughout his Annals,...

WOMEN AND RESISTANCE IN THE ANNALS OF TACITUS explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Caitlin C. Gillespie situates nonimperial Roman women at the fore. #History

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Ben: He promised you parts in "Cats"? Ouisa Kittredge: It wasn't just that. It was fun! Tess: You went to "Cats". You said it was an all-time low in a lifetime of theatre going. Ouisa Kittredge: Film is a different medium. Ben: You said, "Aeschylus did not invent theatre to have it end up a bunch of chorus kids wondering which one of them will go to kitty-cat heaven." Ouisa Kittredge: I don't remember saying that. Flan Kittredge: I think that was "Starlight Express". Tess: Well, maybe they'll make a movie of "Starlight Express" and you can all be on roller skates!

I am forever thinking about these lines

I've been seeing people posting this, but I can't seem to find a source saying this specifically or using this language, including on the NEH website. Do you have a link?

aut nihil est sensus animis a morte relictum
aut mors ipsa nihil. (3.39–40)

Lucan's Pompey has read his Lucretius!

It's a little known fact that the Bee Gees named themselves after the publishing house B.G. Teubner. If they formed today, they would call themselves the Dee Gees, for De Gruyter.

tum genus humanum positis sibi consulat armis
inque vicem gens omnis amet; pax missa per orbem
ferrea belligeri conpescat limina Iani.

Lucan 1.60–2

Just saw the Tristan encore last night with a few friends! Had a great time.

Reminds me of "left bereft of FDR"

shutting down modern jewish studies at a school that had a serious antisemitism incident SIX MONTHS AGO so students can major in posting

Happy Stephen Sondheim's birthday!

Durch Mitleid wissend, der reine Tor

In the cat café reading Isocrates and sipping a London fog ... living the life

I know nothing personally about the Berkeley, but the joke at CUNY was that the Berkeley program was the creators' first draft, which they perfected at CUNY.

I did the CUNY Latin. Had a great time, but it's really intense. In general, working from about 8am to 8pm (with a few breaks of course) for 10 weeks straight. It's basically 4 semesters of intro language (2 to work through textbook, then extensive reading of prose and poetry).

The Time I Learned Greek Scholars Are Canonically Hotter Than Roman Scholars Saturday Night Social: This is my Roman empire.

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Register for the 2026 Annual Meeting - CANE You can now register for the Annual Meeting, being held at Brandeis University from March 20 to 21. A draft program and more information is available

You can now register for the Annual Meeting, being held at Brandeis University from March 20 to 21. A draft program and more information is available at caneweb.org/annualmeeting.

"Blair! Hello. I read your piece on neo-expressionism." (Sunday in the Park with George, "Putting it Together")

Once again thinking about one of my favorite classical Mel Brooks lines, concerning the author of the Metamorphoses:

"It was all over the papers! The headline in the Roman Tribune was 'Ovid Ousted, Augustus Disgusted'!"

particles are the coolest

I once went through the effort of summing up Odysseus' children across various sources and I believe the number is in the double digits

The SS Navemar

Here’s how the well-known story goes: Vladimir Nabokov, professor of literature and soon-to-be-famous novelist, meets with a Cornell student who considers himself a budding writer. “What kind of tree is that outside my window?” Nabokov asks. “I don’t know,” the student says. “Then you’ll never be a writer,” Nabokov says.

Nabokov agreed

I've always wanted to read a "fantasy graduate school" book but in my searches so far it seems it doesn't exist. One that got somewhat close was Shadows of the Short Days, but even that not really, though I did enjoy it.

I've grown contrarian and on the rare times its prediction is what I had intended to write, I shift course out of spite.

Near the Vanzeti river, I presume?

the grateful dead is one of the great symbols of american freedom. not the semblance of freedom enshrined in the bill of rights that can be stripped away by the state, but true freedom that can be taken by no one—to explore and express one's mind, body, and soul uninhibited, to fly your freak flag.

Ever tried K-Dramas? I AM OBSESSED.