An Iliad review – David Wenham is a great match for contemporary twist on Homer’s epic Sydney Theatre CompanyStarring Wenham and triple-threat Helen Svoboda, this take on The Iliad captures the dark magic of masterful oral storytelling

A proshot for those of us in the northern hemisphere, I am BEGGING you...
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That’s one way of looking at it. Another way is that, while rejecting Trump’s criminal irresponsibility, Australia hopes to have a good working relationship with a post-Trump USA.

AN ILIAD - Limelight A wry, witty and world-weary poet introduces himself as a storyteller, bound to recount the myth of the Trojan War until humanity can overcome its rage for violence and destruction. Award-winning inte...

Sydney Theatre Company: AN #ILIAD - limelight-arts.com.au/event/an-ili... "Lisa Peterson & Denis O’Hare’s acclaimed & dynamic adaptation transforms Homer’s Ancient Greek saga of heroes, gods & battles into an urgent & personal exploration of difference, disagreement & the devastation of war."

GitHub - bnagy/nagy-thesis-2025: PhD thesis: Computational approaches to Latin literature PhD thesis: Computational approaches to Latin literature - bnagy/nagy-thesis-2025

I finally got around to open-sourcing the full build for my PhD thesis: github.com/bnagy/nagy-t... which may be of minor interest to some people.

All but one of the papers are published elsewhere, but it has some interesting LaTeX tricks, and I enjoyed writing the conclusion a great deal.

That’s clearly a moronic comment, not part of an actual report.

Good grief! ABC is usually pretty good. Roman air power was pretty weak.

Amazing game. My family supports the Hawks. Apparently Hawthorn beat not only Geelong but also the umpires.

Not only in the UK, I’m afraid.

I’ve got two PhD scholarships for domestic students at Macquarie University. Topics must be related to Greek myth in contexts of communal crisis in antiquity. Always happy to chat about ideas! www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

Thoughtful commentary from a conservative politician who fought alongside Americans in Afghanistan.

@rantyben.bsky.social Did you receive my email about Theocritus?

#OnThisDay - 20 March - in 43 BC, my favourite (& the best!) poet Publius Ovidius Naso was born in "watery Sulmo". Brilliant, controversial, and breathing poetry, his verse would run him foul with the Emperor Augustus. #Ovid 🏺

Image: 'Ovid in Exile', by Ion Theodorescu-Sion (1915)

Front Cover: Fragment of the Ara Pacis

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He misunderstands the parallel. Japan may well have consulted with its allies Germany and Italy before it attacked Pearl Harbor.

Aren’t they required by law? They are here in Australia even when no one is around.

The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race Cambridge Core - Classical Studies (General) - The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race

Now available for preorder, with promo code TCCCR2026, "The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race," a major intervention against the decades-old orthodoxy of the alleged anachronism of "race" and "racism" for the study of the ancient past. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Never let the big tough warmongers forget that their intimidating "e pluribus unum" motto is actually from a Latin poem about a pesto recipe

It’s a terrible situation. The Labor government seems unlikely to do anything about it. They are as bad as their predecessors.

Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic Cambridge Core - Ancient History - Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic

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An erotic epiphany (but for whom?): Ovid, Amores 1.5.9-10 by Stephen Hinds

(12) An erotic epiphany (but for whom?): Ovid, Amores 1.5.9-10
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March 13 hybrid/Brisbane (4pm AEST, E302 Forgan Smith) UQ Classics & Ancient History seminar: Professor Maria Wyke (UCL/2026 Visiting Professor UQ Centre for Western Civilisation), #Nero in the Early Years of Cinema hpi.uq.edu.au/event/sessio... Zoom: email d.pritchard@uq.edu.au

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It says a lot about the conservatives that they nominate a MAGA-style christian.

So too with the Aeneid. furor impius needs to be restrained (but it isn’t).

Revolting. Fortunately Labor already holds the seat. His chances of being elected are close to zero.

Cover image for edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic'. Depicts detail of a gilt bronze statue of a Roman woman. Pergola, Italy. c. 70-30 BCE.

Book description: In the Roman Republic, elite women were legally permitted to control substantial assets – and many demonstrably were in direct control of their wealth. They were also the mothers, wives and daughters of the politicians who built Rome's empire and, in a time of high mortality, could find themselves running households that did not contain adult men. This volume explores the political and social consequences of elite female wealth. It combines case studies of individual women, such as Licinia, wife of C. Gracchus, Mucia Tertia, Fulvia and Octavia Minor, with broader surveys of the institutional frameworks and social conventions that constrained and enabled women's wealth and its consequences. The book contributes to the recent upsurge of interest in re-evaluating the role of women in Republican Rome and will be invaluable for scholars and students alike.

Catherine Steel and I are thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic': www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
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Sneering (clowns?) at the British monarchy is cheap. That the monarchy was linked to empire is a banal truth.

So republics don’t practise colonialism? France? USA?