As the pandemic known as COVID-19 grips the globe, thousands of instructors in the United States and elsewhere have been … More
Tag: papyri
Taking a Sapphic Stanza: Papyri, Digital Humanities, and Reclaiming the Work of Ancient Women
This semester, I am teaching our department’s Archaic to Classical Greek Survey. I specialize in late antique Roman history and … More
Picturing the Patriarch: Resources for Finding Illustrated Papyri and the Case for Image Licensing
Ancient and medieval papyri not only transmitted text, some even held illustrations. Mathematical, scientific, and magical papyri often had accompanying … More
‘Can I Get Your Autograph?’: A Short History of Signature Collecting
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with collecting the signatures of the Atlanta Braves baseball players. It was … More
Amo, Amas, Amat: Greco-Roman School Exercises
The first line of Euripides’ Bacchae reads: ‘ἥκω Διὸς παῖς τήνδε Θηβαίων χθόνα‘ I, the child of Zeus, have come to … More
Third Eye Blind: The Cyclops in Late Antiquity
Born around the year 490 CE in the city of Philadelphia, John the Lydian had a lot to say about Roman corruption and … More
