Congratulations! I had a wonderful time there last fall! Hard to beat Anton’s cooking and the sense of camaraderie

Image of a promotional poster for "NEW: The Bodleian Whispering Service." It humorously details a service where users can "Request a title, Sit quietly, and Receive knowledge." Tiers include "Journal articles," "19th Century Novels," and "War and Peace (extended session)." Launching on April 1st. The poster features icons of two figures, one appearing to whisper to the other, against a background of a historic building.

NEW: Introducing the Bodleian Whispering Service.

Too busy to read? Our expert librarians can now quietly narrate books, articles, and selected manuscripts directly to you in our reading rooms.

Please note: whispering remains subject to standard library noise regulations.

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

Celebrating the publication of my article "Deeper Histories: The Integration of Geologic Time and Human History in Herodotus’ Egyptian Logos" in Classical Antiquity. You can find it here if you have access: doi.org/10.1525/ca.2..., but I am happy to send a PDF if you don't.

Race B4 Race 2025, Seminar 1: What We're Reading and Why | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

Kavita Mudan Finn (@kvmfinn.bsky.social) spotlights the Race and Classics reader edited by Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells and Phiroze Vasunia for #RaceB4Race www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

James Calvin Taylor is Assistant Professor of Classics at Colby College, where he also teaches courses in the Environmental Humanities. He received his PhD in Classical Philology from Harvard in 2020 with a dissertation on the conceptualization of deep time, geological processes, and environmental change in classical texts. His research interests span a wide variety of genres and time periods in classical antiquity, embracing texts as diverse as Aristotle’s Meteorologica and Ovid’s Metamorphoses,and drawing upon interpretative frameworks from the history of science, environmental criticism, and the philosophy of history. He has written articles on topics as diverse as Lucan’s description of the Syrtes, Herodotus’ integration of Egypt’s geological and human histories, and the significance of tides in Stoic meteorology.

After the grand exodus from academia.edu, I finally figured out how to build an acceptable site where everything displays correctly (or, at least, so I think) on HCommons: jamescalvintaylor.hcommons.org.

Page of Barnes' book, in which he talks of "modern atomism" and "modern science" only to then say that "there is, alas, no such thing as 'modern science', and the theory I have called 'modern atomism is a myth."

Jonathan Barnes has a strange rhetorical habit of leading you along one interpretative route, only to then contradict himself as though you were a fool to trust him all along... (Here on atomism in The Presocratic Philosophers (1979) 2.41).