📢 Not just a new SCS Blog Post, but an entirely new blog series: engagements with/responses to select articles in our association's official journal, TAPA.
First up: Michael Taylor on Duncan MacRae's "Capitoline Futures."
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Today on the blog, Michael Taylor kicks off a new series spotlighting TAPA articles with his take on Duncan MacRae's "Capitoline Futures: The Location of Roman Futurity."
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A black poster featuring orange and blue Chinese characters reading 荷马史诗与气候变化, "Climate Change in the Ancient World." There is a blue wave of the ocean next to a beige drawing of an ancient Greek maiden with a headpiece and handle like those of an amphora.
Today on the blog, Jinrui Zhang discusses his public engagement initiative in China, “Echoes of Antiquity,” funded by the Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities initiative.
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Register here for the next mini-conference in AIMS' (Antiquity in Media Studies) event series on March 29: classicalstudies.org/scs-news/upc...
Nominations are open now for this year's Goodwin Award, recognizing exceptional recent scholarly work in the field of classics. Review eligibility requirements here: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f... and submit your nomination at apply.classicalstudies.org.
Nominations are open now for this year's Cribiore Award, which recognizes outstanding translations from Ancient Greek or Latin by Society members. Review eligibility requirements: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f... and apply here: apply.classicalstudies.org
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Today on the blog, Thomas Hendrickson discusses tiered readers as a bridge between introductory textbooks and unadapted Latin texts.
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Join @fglif.bsky.social at their webinar "Translating Your PhD: Resumes for Nonfaculty Careers" on April 28 at 7 PM ET. Register here: bucknell.zoom.us/meeting/regi... and find more information: classicalstudies.org/scs-news/upc...
Nominations are open now for this year's Cribiore Award, which recognizes outstanding translations from Ancient Greek or Latin by Society members. Review eligibility requirements: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f... and apply here: apply.classicalstudies.org
Applications close on March 6 for Teaching Classics in a Digital Age, an NEH funded institute for higher education faculty which aims to expand data and digital literacy among educators in the fields of ancient Mediterranean studies.
Learn more and apply: classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cal...
Nominations are open now for this year's Goodwin Award, recognizing exceptional recent scholarly work in the field of classics. Review eligibility requirements here: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f... and submit your nomination at apply.classicalstudies.org.
An old book with yellowed pages is opened to the title page, which has ornate decorative motifs in black ink with some Gothic writing in red ink.
Today on the blog, Jillian Stinchcomb discusses Egypt and Ethiopia in the work of Flavius Josephus.
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Today on the blog, Benjamin Haller reviews We Players' performance of Odyssea at the SCS Annual Meeting.
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Today on the blog, Stephen DeCasien (@sdecasien.bsky.social) discusses the parallel evolution of two ancient warships, one from Greece and one from China.
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/ste...
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Today on the blog, James Ker and Nina Papathansopoulou talk with Ava Roy, Artistic Director of We Players, about the inspiration and process behind the upcoming Odyssea performance at the San Francisco annual meeting.
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/ava...
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Today on the blog, Rachel Philbrick and Zachary Quint of the SCS Data Committee share some of the results of the Census, focusing on a few salient questions and linking to further data.
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/tor...
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Today on the blog, we're featuring Part I of a piece, by Amy Norgard and Joshua Nudell, reflecting on Ovid's Pygmalion myth in the age of AI companions.
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/tor...
An orange eye in a gray-skinned head in a circle in the middle. Atop the eye, the text reads "The Society for Classical Studies presents We Players' Odyssea" and beneath it reads "January 9, 2026, 8pm, Society for Classical Studies 2026 Annual Meeting"
Today on the blog, Nina Papathanasopoulou introduces the upcoming performance at this year's annual meeting in San Francisco: a product of Odyssea by We Players.
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/tor...
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Today on the blog, Kathleen Coleman discusses the importance of the TLL Fellowship, now in need of support after losing its NEH funding this past spring.
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/kco...
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Today on the blog, Will Szymanski (@willszymanski.bsky.social) discusses Sulla and Elon Musk in the current political moment.
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/wil...
A stone inscription in Latin whose first line reads A Caedicius Successus. Subsequent lines are too small to read. Tomb inscription of A(ulus) Caedicius Successus, quinquennalis (president) of the guild of skippers sailing the Adriatic Sea.
Today on the blog, SN Yeager and Victoria Austen discuss Classics and unionization for the Contingent Faculty series.
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/sn-...
A yellow page with a large capital letter M on the top left, followed by handwritten lines of ancient Greek
Today on the blog, Peter Kotiuga discusses how having students learn the prosodic features of ancient Greek and Latin early provides fresh opportunities to make lessons on meter more engaging.
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/pko...
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Today on the blog, Joy Connolly shares the legacy of the ACLS (@acls1919.bsky.social) and NEH, and how we can support them and the NEH (@nehgov.bsky.social) during this political moment: www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/joy...
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Today on the blog, Kevin Solez reflects on the parallels between working with gems and ancient poetic texts while offering a new translation of Posidippus Lithika 7.
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/229...
An archaeological site featuring rows of stone stelae and cippi on the ground
Today on the blog, Nathan Pilkington calls for the abandonment of the term “tophet” and a renaming of the “tophet” at Carthage. Based on the epigraphic record at Carthage, he argues, a more proper name for the site is The Sanctuary of Ba'al Hamon.
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/pil...
The award recognizes programs which positively shape students’ lives and careers through purposeful and sustained advising activities, and one program will be selected each year for this honor.
Society for Classical Studies, SCS Award for Excellence in Academic Advising, the deadline for departments or programs to apply is June 1, 2025, scan QR code to learn more.
The deadline to nominate your department for the new SCS Award for Excellence in Academic Advising is less than two weeks away! Nominations are due by June 1, 2025. www.classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...
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Today on the blog, Michael Taylor reflects on the Roman army as a multi-ethnic force, where the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion underpinned its effectiveness in the field.
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/mik...
Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Mini-grants of up to $2,000 for public projects that engage individuals, groups, and communities in critical discussion of and creative expression related to the ancient Mediterranean, the global reception of Greek and Roman culture, and the history of teaching and scholarship in the field of classical studies. Next Deadline: May 16, 2025. Scan QR Code to learn more.
The deadline to apply for Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities is this week! This initiative provides mini-grants of up to $2,000 to support public engagement projects, and the next application deadline is Friday, May 16. www.classicalstudies.org/outreach/anc...