Marco Perale
@mperale.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Liverpool. Editor, The Classical Quarterly. Trustee of the Hellenic Society. Working class academic.
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New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey.
Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available.
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Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available.
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February 6, 2026 at 7:08 PM
New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey.
Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
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Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
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Interesting article by A. Hardwick on teaching the Iliad in translation at undergraduate level. Freely available in The Journal of Classics Teaching:
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Iliad Translations in the Undergraduate Classroom | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
Iliad Translations in the Undergraduate Classroom - Volume 26 Issue 52
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February 5, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Interesting article by A. Hardwick on teaching the Iliad in translation at undergraduate level. Freely available in The Journal of Classics Teaching:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Happy to present the first volume of Asia Minor Studien by De Gruyter Brill! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
A collection of new research on Commagene, northern Syria, Doliche, and Asia Minor in general. Dedicated to Engelbert Winter, a driving force of the Münster Asia Minor Forschungstelle.
A collection of new research on Commagene, northern Syria, Doliche, and Asia Minor in general. Dedicated to Engelbert Winter, a driving force of the Münster Asia Minor Forschungstelle.
February 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Happy to present the first volume of Asia Minor Studien by De Gruyter Brill! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
A collection of new research on Commagene, northern Syria, Doliche, and Asia Minor in general. Dedicated to Engelbert Winter, a driving force of the Münster Asia Minor Forschungstelle.
A collection of new research on Commagene, northern Syria, Doliche, and Asia Minor in general. Dedicated to Engelbert Winter, a driving force of the Münster Asia Minor Forschungstelle.
Animals as Literary Topoi in Fable and Ancient Literature
Seminar in Barcelona @filcomub.bsky.social with @masterclaub.bsky.social and @lludrigueta.bsky.social
Seminar in Barcelona @filcomub.bsky.social with @masterclaub.bsky.social and @lludrigueta.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Animals as Literary Topoi in Fable and Ancient Literature
Seminar in Barcelona @filcomub.bsky.social with @masterclaub.bsky.social and @lludrigueta.bsky.social
Seminar in Barcelona @filcomub.bsky.social with @masterclaub.bsky.social and @lludrigueta.bsky.social
@hellenicsociety.bsky.social & @theromansoc.bsky.social Online Course
Chris Carey
Herodotus and History
Wednesday 25 February, 11, 18, 25 March, 1 April, 6pm-7.30pm (UK time)
For more information and to book:
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
Chris Carey
Herodotus and History
Wednesday 25 February, 11, 18, 25 March, 1 April, 6pm-7.30pm (UK time)
For more information and to book:
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
February 1, 2026 at 10:38 PM
@hellenicsociety.bsky.social & @theromansoc.bsky.social Online Course
Chris Carey
Herodotus and History
Wednesday 25 February, 11, 18, 25 March, 1 April, 6pm-7.30pm (UK time)
For more information and to book:
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
Chris Carey
Herodotus and History
Wednesday 25 February, 11, 18, 25 March, 1 April, 6pm-7.30pm (UK time)
For more information and to book:
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
Call for Support: programme in Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Calgary is facing closure | Appel à soutien: Études classiques et médiévales à l’Université de Calgary
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February 1, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Call for Support: programme in Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Calgary is facing closure | Appel à soutien: Études classiques et médiévales à l’Université de Calgary
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The art of Nonnus
Many Bassarids were beside the watersprings near the rock shedding fountains of tears; and the deep fountain itself, filled with the showers of tears newly shed upon her sorrowful countenance, grew all dark lamenting the heavy mourning of nevermourning Dionysos
32.295-9,tr. Rouse
Many Bassarids were beside the watersprings near the rock shedding fountains of tears; and the deep fountain itself, filled with the showers of tears newly shed upon her sorrowful countenance, grew all dark lamenting the heavy mourning of nevermourning Dionysos
32.295-9,tr. Rouse
February 1, 2026 at 1:15 AM
The art of Nonnus
Many Bassarids were beside the watersprings near the rock shedding fountains of tears; and the deep fountain itself, filled with the showers of tears newly shed upon her sorrowful countenance, grew all dark lamenting the heavy mourning of nevermourning Dionysos
32.295-9,tr. Rouse
Many Bassarids were beside the watersprings near the rock shedding fountains of tears; and the deep fountain itself, filled with the showers of tears newly shed upon her sorrowful countenance, grew all dark lamenting the heavy mourning of nevermourning Dionysos
32.295-9,tr. Rouse
How to destroy a book in four words.
Martin West's review of the 1982 Teubner edition of Musaeus. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Martin West's review of the 1982 Teubner edition of Musaeus. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 31, 2026 at 12:32 PM
How to destroy a book in four words.
Martin West's review of the 1982 Teubner edition of Musaeus. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Martin West's review of the 1982 Teubner edition of Musaeus. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Just published!
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This Companion investigates conceptions and uses of Homeric poetry from the sixth to the eighteenth century, with excursions into the fine arts and music in the modern period.
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This Companion investigates conceptions and uses of Homeric poetry from the sixth to the eighteenth century, with excursions into the fine arts and music in the modern period.
January 30, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Just published!
brill.com/display/titl...
This Companion investigates conceptions and uses of Homeric poetry from the sixth to the eighteenth century, with excursions into the fine arts and music in the modern period.
brill.com/display/titl...
This Companion investigates conceptions and uses of Homeric poetry from the sixth to the eighteenth century, with excursions into the fine arts and music in the modern period.
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There's no cover image yet, but look what's coming out next year:
Do you like bureaucracy? early Christianity? both?
Robin Whelan has got you covered:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
Do you like bureaucracy? early Christianity? both?
Robin Whelan has got you covered:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
Serving the Christian State in Late Antiquity
Cambridge Core - Church History - Serving the Christian State in Late Antiquity
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January 28, 2026 at 2:21 PM
There's no cover image yet, but look what's coming out next year:
Do you like bureaucracy? early Christianity? both?
Robin Whelan has got you covered:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
Do you like bureaucracy? early Christianity? both?
Robin Whelan has got you covered:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
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The latest issue is now out! 80% of this issue is open access and free for anyone to read
Very pleased to announce that The Classical Quarterly 75.1 (2025) has now been published. It contains 36 articles and 9 shorter notes. It can be accessed here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 23, 2026 at 5:28 PM
The latest issue is now out! 80% of this issue is open access and free for anyone to read
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A 14th-century manuscript of the Romance of Alexander (the Great) that I saw in the Treasured exhibition at the Weston Library. [Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264; fols. 43v-44r].
January 23, 2026 at 8:12 AM
A 14th-century manuscript of the Romance of Alexander (the Great) that I saw in the Treasured exhibition at the Weston Library. [Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264; fols. 43v-44r].
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The Brill Companion to Rome, c. 400- c. 1050, co-edited by Caroline Goodson and myself, will be published on 22 January (online) and on 19 February (print).
There will be a hybrid book launch on the eve of the online publication.
More info here
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www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/Bi...
There will be a hybrid book launch on the eve of the online publication.
More info here
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www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/Bi...
www.uni-erfurt.de
January 12, 2026 at 5:26 PM
The Brill Companion to Rome, c. 400- c. 1050, co-edited by Caroline Goodson and myself, will be published on 22 January (online) and on 19 February (print).
There will be a hybrid book launch on the eve of the online publication.
More info here
👇
www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/Bi...
There will be a hybrid book launch on the eve of the online publication.
More info here
👇
www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/Bi...
Very pleased to announce that The Classical Quarterly 75.1 (2025) has now been published. It contains 36 articles and 9 shorter notes. It can be accessed here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 22, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Very pleased to announce that The Classical Quarterly 75.1 (2025) has now been published. It contains 36 articles and 9 shorter notes. It can be accessed here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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My book, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is out! Promo Code WIN26 will get you 30% off at @yalepress.bsky.social. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
The White Pedestal
How white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics It is difficult ...
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January 21, 2026 at 5:58 PM
My book, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is out! Promo Code WIN26 will get you 30% off at @yalepress.bsky.social. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Exceptional discoveries in the latest campaign of the Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission - Current events - University of Barcelona web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...
Exceptional discoveries in the latest campaign of the Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission
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January 21, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Exceptional discoveries in the latest campaign of the Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission - Current events - University of Barcelona web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...
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Why should you submit to Classical Quarterly? Gain professional experience and share your research by submitting to our leading #classics #journal
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Swipe below to follow our submission guidance and head to Cambridge Core to read our author instructions: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 20, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Why should you submit to Classical Quarterly? Gain professional experience and share your research by submitting to our leading #classics #journal
Swipe below to follow our submission guidance and head to Cambridge Core to read our author instructions: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Swipe below to follow our submission guidance and head to Cambridge Core to read our author instructions: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Classical Association is now on BlueSky!
Follow their account @classicalassociation.org and consider becoming a member: classicalassociation.org/join-us!
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January 20, 2026 at 1:53 PM
The Classical Association is now on BlueSky!
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Hey #classics scholars! 👋🏺🏛️
My fellow Classical Review editors and I recently wrote this blog post on how to write review articles and profiles 👇
👉 If you are interested in writing one do get in touch!
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#publishing #academia #classics #archaeology #ancienthistory
My fellow Classical Review editors and I recently wrote this blog post on how to write review articles and profiles 👇
👉 If you are interested in writing one do get in touch!
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
#publishing #academia #classics #archaeology #ancienthistory
What Makes a Good Review Article or Profile « Classics# « Cambridge Core Blog
Classical Review has recently expanded its standard work of publishing reviews and notices of single books to include also longer pieces covering more – and more varied – material. We have previously ...
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October 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Hey #classics scholars! 👋🏺🏛️
My fellow Classical Review editors and I recently wrote this blog post on how to write review articles and profiles 👇
👉 If you are interested in writing one do get in touch!
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
#publishing #academia #classics #archaeology #ancienthistory
My fellow Classical Review editors and I recently wrote this blog post on how to write review articles and profiles 👇
👉 If you are interested in writing one do get in touch!
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
#publishing #academia #classics #archaeology #ancienthistory
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We’re delighted to welcome a new Editor for Classical Quarterly!
Tom Biggs brings a wealth of expertise in Latin poetry and prose and appreciates the value of a wide range of critical approaches - over 100 years into our publication of leading Classics journals, we're excited for this new chapter!
Tom Biggs brings a wealth of expertise in Latin poetry and prose and appreciates the value of a wide range of critical approaches - over 100 years into our publication of leading Classics journals, we're excited for this new chapter!
January 16, 2026 at 4:44 PM
We’re delighted to welcome a new Editor for Classical Quarterly!
Tom Biggs brings a wealth of expertise in Latin poetry and prose and appreciates the value of a wide range of critical approaches - over 100 years into our publication of leading Classics journals, we're excited for this new chapter!
Tom Biggs brings a wealth of expertise in Latin poetry and prose and appreciates the value of a wide range of critical approaches - over 100 years into our publication of leading Classics journals, we're excited for this new chapter!
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💥 Congratulations to Dr Andrea Giannotti whose new commented edition of Euripides' 'Children of Heracles' has been published today!
👉 The book also contains an introduction by Prof. Andrea Capra.
👉 The book also contains an introduction by Prof. Andrea Capra.
January 20, 2026 at 8:00 AM
💥 Congratulations to Dr Andrea Giannotti whose new commented edition of Euripides' 'Children of Heracles' has been published today!
👉 The book also contains an introduction by Prof. Andrea Capra.
👉 The book also contains an introduction by Prof. Andrea Capra.
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Now available: Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters
Order at www.cambridge.org/9781009087629
Early birds save 20% off at checkout, code JOOP2026
#sidoniusapollinaris #epistolography #LatinLiterature #LateAntiquity
Order at www.cambridge.org/9781009087629
Early birds save 20% off at checkout, code JOOP2026
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January 19, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Now available: Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters
Order at www.cambridge.org/9781009087629
Early birds save 20% off at checkout, code JOOP2026
#sidoniusapollinaris #epistolography #LatinLiterature #LateAntiquity
Order at www.cambridge.org/9781009087629
Early birds save 20% off at checkout, code JOOP2026
#sidoniusapollinaris #epistolography #LatinLiterature #LateAntiquity
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The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae project (125-year-long complete Latin language dictionary effort) is advertising to hire a full-stack developer in Munich (Django/React): job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
Full-Stack-Entwickler / -Entwicklerin zur Umsetzung der Umstellung des Thesaurus-Wörterbuchs von der gedruckten auf eine vollständig digitale Version
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January 19, 2026 at 1:20 PM
The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae project (125-year-long complete Latin language dictionary effort) is advertising to hire a full-stack developer in Munich (Django/React): job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
According to the scholiast to Theocritus' Cyclops, the doctor Nicias of Miletus, having read Theocritus' poem, wrote one in response to him, which started as follows:
'So this was true, Theocritus: the Loves / have taught many to be poets who did not know the Muse before’
archive.org/details/scho...
'So this was true, Theocritus: the Loves / have taught many to be poets who did not know the Muse before’
archive.org/details/scho...
January 18, 2026 at 5:22 PM
According to the scholiast to Theocritus' Cyclops, the doctor Nicias of Miletus, having read Theocritus' poem, wrote one in response to him, which started as follows:
'So this was true, Theocritus: the Loves / have taught many to be poets who did not know the Muse before’
archive.org/details/scho...
'So this was true, Theocritus: the Loves / have taught many to be poets who did not know the Muse before’
archive.org/details/scho...