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The Early Modern Now, Rutgers University, Friday, April 10, 2026

Zeus, the Fool? Criticizing the Pagan Father of the Gods in Lorenz Rhodoman’s Ilias parva (1588/1604) Karen Lelittka (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) The Greeks began their education with Homer. Homer retained hi…

📜 New on Early Modern Hellenism
We are pleased to announce the publication of “Zeus the Fool” by Karen Lelittka, a sharp and illuminating examination of Rhodoman’s Ilias parva.
Read the full piece here:
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“From imagination to remains, from remains to imagination: literary representations of ancient Greece in its materiality (14th-19th centuries)”, French School of Athens, February 25-26, 2027. CfP deadline May 15
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Mayra A. Cortes, University of California, Los Angeles & Raphael…

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📢 CFA - 3 Postdoctoral Researchers in Early Modern History (35 months) within the project ‘Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy’ at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento. Deadline: 8 May 2026. jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs...

Please circulate widely!

CfP: Annual Colloquium - Periodizing the Early/Modern - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS Periodizing the Early/Modern Annual Colloquium hosted by the Centre for Early Modern Studies, King’s College London Call for Papers Deadline: 7th April Colloquium: 11th June This year’s colloquium is ...

Periodizing the Early/Modern
Annual Colloquium hosted by the Centre for Early Modern Studies, King’s College London
Call for Papers Deadline: 7th April
Colloquium: 11th June

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The First Philhellenes: Advocating Greece’s Liberation in Seventeenth-Century England Drawing on archival research from the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, France, Greece, and England, Dr. Tomos Evans (Princeton University) will discuss the diplomat Leonard Philaras (c.1595–1673) and his n...

I’m very much looking forward to speaking this Wednesday, February 25, at the Early Modern History Workshop at Princeton University.

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📜 Neo-Latin Call for Papers 📜

Proposals are now being accepted for the 26th annual NeoLatina Conference, to be held in Innsbruck on 24-25 September 2026!

See attached flyer for more details and share to fellow Neo-Latinists!

Proofs! My article ‘“That Son of Belial”: William Power and the Milton–Chappell Incident at Christ’s College, Cambridge (Easter Term, 1627)’ will be published later this year in History of Universities.

SNLS Call for Papers!

The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising an online event for PhD students and ECR colleagues. See flyer for more details! #NeoLatin #AncientGreek

Classics and the Classical Tradition in London

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Deadline for submissions: Friday, February 6, 2026.

Advanced doctoral candidates are invited to submit proposals. Proposals can draw on research relevant to any aspect of the early modern and/or modern Greek world, in both local and global contexts, from the fifteenth century to the present.

Eighteenth International Graduate Student Conference In Modern Greek Studies Advanced doctoral candidates from any institution are invited to submit proposals. We welcome proposals that draw on research relevant to any aspect of the early modern and/or modern Greek world, in b...

Eighteenth Annual International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies, with an open theme "Works-in-Progress: New Approaches."

The conference will be held in-person at Princeton on Friday, May 1, 2026.

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Congratulations Basil! 👏🏼

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from Byzantium to the Enlightenment (2026)
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Thanks for the shout out!

Laurel Berries and the B.A. (Cantab): An Unnoticed Pun in Milton’s Lycidas In On the Correct Pronunciation of Latin and Greek (Basel, 1528), Erasmus outlines a new system of Greek pronunciation, veering away from Byzantine Greek p

Great to see that my short article, ‘Laurel Berries and the B.A. (Cantab): An Unnoticed Pun in Milton’s Lycidas’, has been published in Notes & Queries! @oxfordunipress.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...

Latin Beyond Poetry – Politics, Prose, and Religion. Proposals for papers (6,000–8,000 words) exploring the reception and influence of Latin in Modern Greek texts invited for edited volume Reception of Latin in Modern Greek Literature. Due October 31st 2025.

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It was a pleasure to present research from my monograph-in-progress, “Advocating Greece’s Liberation in the Seventeenth Century”, at the Hellenism in Early Modern Europe Conference, hosted by the European Union-funded project @greci-eu.bsky.social at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Center in Nicosia.

New Perspectives in Global Latin The Global Latin II Conference has highlighted the role of the Latin language as cultural medium between West and East. Adopting a diachronic perspective which spans from the Middle Ages to the Modern...

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Issue 11 • 2025 • Latin-Greek Code-Switching in Early Modernity III

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📆Next week, 22-24 October

👉 Anyone wishing to follow the conference remotely, please email greci@ucy.ac.cy to receive the zoom link!

#skystorians #earlymodern #classicalreception

A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).

the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

'Paradise Lost' and Found - LECTURE - RHS The Inner Temple’s intriguing purchase of an early (1688) edition of Paradise Lost formerly owned by the Royal Master of Revels, Charles Killigrew (1655 – 1725), and annotated with the names of numero...

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Greatly looking forward to presenting at the GrECI Conference in Cyprus!