Peter Davis

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Enthusiastic about Latin poetry, especially Ovid

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#CFP Australasian Society for Classical Studies conference 2025 #ASCS46 - hybrid/Canberra @ ANU - February 3-5, 2005 - full call for papers/panels at www.ascs.org.au/news/ Abstract deadline August 23rd

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Full professor position in history advertised at university of Adelaide: deadline August 6. careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

careers.adelaide.edu.au Come and celebrate our 150th year. Explore our events, our history, and the foundation we’ve built for the future.

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June 28 Albury (Albury LibraryMuseum, 6pm AEST) Emperors of Rome Podcast Live Event. Register (free) events.humanitix.com/emperors-of-...

Emperors of Rome: Live in conversation | Humanitixevents.humanitix.com Get tickets on Humanitix - Emperors of Rome: Live in conversation hosted by Albury LibraryMuseum and Lavington Library. Find event information.

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Want to stay up to date on the latest on Roman women of the Republic? And for free? Silvia Lacorte and I have edited "Cives Romanae. Roman Women as Citizens during the Republic" and it's also in free access. Happy reading! puz.unizar.es/2999-cives-r...

Cives Romanae. Roman Women as Citizens during the Republicpuz.unizar.es

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Calling all Ovidians! Don't forget that the new journal Ovidius is accepting submissions on any aspect of Ovid and the afterlives of his work, including academic articles, translations, and original creative works! ovidiusjournal.org/ojs/index.ph...

Ovidius: Journal of the International Ovidian Society ovidiusjournal.org

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#ASCS Australasian Society for Classical Studies Newsletter (2024 (1) [pdf] ascs.org.au/news/newslet...) and Publications (2023 [pdf] ascs.org.au/news/publica...) - "including news/publications from independent scholars"

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- Generative AI can't do facts - Generative AI can't reason - Unless a model tells us what it's trained on, we should assume it's participated in the largest copyright theft in history - No incremental improves are going to change this

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John Godwin writes first review of Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature classicsforall.org.uk/reading-room...

THE CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL GUIDE TO LATIN LITERATUREclassicsforall.org.uk CUP (2024) h/b 927pp £150 (ISBN 9781108421089) This huge volume aims to tell us, as Michèle Lowrie puts it (p.758), ‘what Latin texts we read, how we read them, and why.’ Eighteen major scholars give ...

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Translated as ‘fools laugh at Latin words’ this excerpt from Ovid’s Tristia bewails his fate in exile where he is the ‘barbarian’ whose Latin words are not understood. He reflects on the (in)justice of Augustus’ censure. 🏺 Ancientbluesky

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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Ad Familiares – Classics for All’s online journal - ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2017/09/open...

Open Access Journal: Ad Familiares – Classics for All’s online journalancientworldonline.blogspot.com [First posted in AWOL 29 September 20 2017, updated 27 April 2024]] Ad Familiares – Classics for All’s online journal Welcome to Ad Fami...

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New issue of Arethusa Vol. 57, No. 1 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/52403 @hopkinspress.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Musical Structure in Greek Tragedy

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Some exciting post today!

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Julian the Apostate - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Julian the Apostatewww.bbc.co.uk Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emperor who aimed to return Christian Rome to paganism

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💥 New from me: A negative result paper. "Attention" in AI models is a continual source of breakthroughs. I tried a few approaches to see if I could get some insight into what AI sees as the important components of classical Latin prosodic style....and didn't succeed (yet) (with full code and data)

(Not) Understanding Latin Poetic Style with Deep Learningarxiv.org This article summarizes some mostly unsuccessful attempts to understand authorial style by examining the attention of various neural networks (LSTMs and CNNs) trained on a corpus of classical...

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From Massimo Osanna on Instagram—stunning new frescoes from the insula of the Chaste Lovers (Casti Amanti). This is next level quality, and of course, very intrigued by the panel with what on first look is “hooded pouting baby/child with a pile of grapes (?) and a happy dog”.

I’m looking forward to discussing Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis in our reading group on Friday. It’s a troubling play.

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Just arrived in the post ... a terrific collection, to which it was a real pleasure to make a contribution, a chapter I much enjoyed researching and writing.

Classics for All has just published this piece on Ovid’s Dido. classicsforall.org.uk/reading-room...

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#CFP [journal] Ovidius. Journal of International Ovidian Society ovidiusjournal.org (open access) "contributions on any aspect of #Ovid’s poetry or Ovidian studies.., & the full range of Ovidian receptions & influences, literary & otherwise, from any methodological approach"

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New issue of American Journal of Philology Vol. 144, No. (2023) muse.jhu.edu/issue/51639 #classicssky @hopkinspress.bsky.social

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ANTIQUITY IN GLOBAL CONTEXT, the Cambridge UP series that I am co-editing with Hans Beck and Tamar Hodos, now (finally) has a (skeletal) webpage! Nothing very grand, yet, but at least it is something to *point* to!

Antiquity in Global Contextwww.cambridge.org Welcome to Cambridge Core

Archaeologists find Pompeii fresco depicting Greek mythological siblings Phrixus and Helle

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New issue of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition Vol. 31, No.1 (2024) link.springer.com/journal/1213... #classicssky

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Coming soon from a scholar to watch out for - @julesadv.bsky.social recently Research Associate on Ancient Letter Collections project, now at Manchester University): new OUP book on Statius: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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A legacy of heroism: 2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae marked in SA greekherald.com.au/culture/hist... - "Dr David Rafferty.. at the University of Adelaide, graced the event with an engaging history of the significance of the Battle of Thermopylae.." @davidrafferty.bsky.social

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Thrilled to be taking up the role of Dean of Research Strategy at the University of Divinity in April and very much looking forward to helping support and build excellent research across all the University’s disciplinary areas. vox.divinity.edu.au/news/profess...

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"This mighty volume, covering just about a quarter-century of David Runia’s [@irci.bsky.social] work on Philo, is a joy to have in hand, & a great resource for Philonists... a fairly comprehensive discussion of all aspects of Philo’s work." John Dillon @ BMCR bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2024/2024.02...

Philo of Alexandria: collected studies 1997-2021 – Bryn Mawr Classical Reviewbmcr.brynmawr.edu

I came across this statue of Medusa in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (1880). I wasn’t aware that she is represented as having wings attached to her head. She is very much focused on her hair. That is not surprising.

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Out of interest, has anyone on here done or knows anyone who has done a combined classics and creative practice PhD? I’ve got thoughts…