Thomas Hendrickson
@thomashendrickson.bsky.social
Latin philology. Latin teaching/learning. Book history. Latin in the early modern era (and other eras).
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Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!
Call for applications: LECTIO Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027
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January 16, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!
Mulling cover images for the next volume in our series of student editions of Latin texts written by women:
January 14, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Mulling cover images for the next volume in our series of student editions of Latin texts written by women:
Question for anyone who knows: "his face (τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ) was going to Jerusalem" (Luke 9:53).
Saying that someone's "face" is going somewhere feels weird. Is this riffing on something from the Septuagint (stylistically, if not as a direct ref)?
Saying that someone's "face" is going somewhere feels weird. Is this riffing on something from the Septuagint (stylistically, if not as a direct ref)?
January 13, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Question for anyone who knows: "his face (τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ) was going to Jerusalem" (Luke 9:53).
Saying that someone's "face" is going somewhere feels weird. Is this riffing on something from the Septuagint (stylistically, if not as a direct ref)?
Saying that someone's "face" is going somewhere feels weird. Is this riffing on something from the Septuagint (stylistically, if not as a direct ref)?
(rubbing my greedy little hands together)
January 12, 2026 at 4:25 PM
(rubbing my greedy little hands together)
Childcare question (to settle spousal disagreement):
You're walking by a construction site (house being built) on a weekend. There is a bulldozer. Do you let your child get on and pretend to drive it?
You're walking by a construction site (house being built) on a weekend. There is a bulldozer. Do you let your child get on and pretend to drive it?
January 12, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Childcare question (to settle spousal disagreement):
You're walking by a construction site (house being built) on a weekend. There is a bulldozer. Do you let your child get on and pretend to drive it?
You're walking by a construction site (house being built) on a weekend. There is a bulldozer. Do you let your child get on and pretend to drive it?
That's an intense cover!
January 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
That's an intense cover!
I used to volunteer for an after-school program here.
Every day I still find it hard to wrap my mind around the kind of country we've become, and how fast it happened.
Every day I still find it hard to wrap my mind around the kind of country we've become, and how fast it happened.
“The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.” — www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:43 PM
I used to volunteer for an after-school program here.
Every day I still find it hard to wrap my mind around the kind of country we've become, and how fast it happened.
Every day I still find it hard to wrap my mind around the kind of country we've become, and how fast it happened.
A curiosity: a 1908 critical edition of Egeria that has an introduction written...in a vernacular?
January 8, 2026 at 2:25 PM
A curiosity: a 1908 critical edition of Egeria that has an introduction written...in a vernacular?
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Join me @rarebookschool.bsky.social for an intensive week of Latin Paleography, June 1-5 in Charlottesville. Paleography doesn't have to be scary. Trust me...we'll have a blast! Application portal is now open. rarebookschool.org/courses/manu...
Introduction to Paleography, 800–1500 | Rare Book School
“This course was very useful and packed with information.” — 2016 student Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 31 May–5 June 2026 Format: in person, University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA Fee: ...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Join me @rarebookschool.bsky.social for an intensive week of Latin Paleography, June 1-5 in Charlottesville. Paleography doesn't have to be scary. Trust me...we'll have a blast! Application portal is now open. rarebookschool.org/courses/manu...
Came across "per valle ipsa media" in Egeria, so I've been looking for examples of "per + abl." No luck in Pinkster's Latin Syntax or Adams' Social Variation.
But thanks be to the gods of philology (that is to say, to the lexicographers), the TLL has finished P.
But thanks be to the gods of philology (that is to say, to the lexicographers), the TLL has finished P.
January 7, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Came across "per valle ipsa media" in Egeria, so I've been looking for examples of "per + abl." No luck in Pinkster's Latin Syntax or Adams' Social Variation.
But thanks be to the gods of philology (that is to say, to the lexicographers), the TLL has finished P.
But thanks be to the gods of philology (that is to say, to the lexicographers), the TLL has finished P.
And here's the link:
ianls.com/wp-content/u...
ianls.com/wp-content/u...
January 6, 2026 at 2:52 PM
And here's the link:
ianls.com/wp-content/u...
ianls.com/wp-content/u...
People who went to the SCS/AIA: What did I miss?
January 5, 2026 at 5:52 PM
People who went to the SCS/AIA: What did I miss?
Trying to order a book from an Italian publisher. They say, "Fine, but we're not shipping it until after Epiphany."
I truly love Italy.
I truly love Italy.
December 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Trying to order a book from an Italian publisher. They say, "Fine, but we're not shipping it until after Epiphany."
I truly love Italy.
I truly love Italy.
Resolution: Find an orderly place on my shelves for the books I acquired in 2025.
(Currently there's a pile on my nightstand, a pile on the floor next to my desk, and an unknown number of books scattered around the house left in whatever places I was reading them.)
(Currently there's a pile on my nightstand, a pile on the floor next to my desk, and an unknown number of books scattered around the house left in whatever places I was reading them.)
December 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Resolution: Find an orderly place on my shelves for the books I acquired in 2025.
(Currently there's a pile on my nightstand, a pile on the floor next to my desk, and an unknown number of books scattered around the house left in whatever places I was reading them.)
(Currently there's a pile on my nightstand, a pile on the floor next to my desk, and an unknown number of books scattered around the house left in whatever places I was reading them.)
New acquisition.
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
New acquisition.
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Happy to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of the New England Classical Journal (52.2) is now published! Featuring an article on felicitas in late antiquity, two book reviews, and an in memoriam for Gil Lawall. Check it out at the link!
crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/
AncientBlueSky ClassicsBlueSky
crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/
AncientBlueSky ClassicsBlueSky
New England Classical Journal | College of the Holy Cross
A publication of the Classical Association of New England, New England Classical Journal is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles, notes, and reviews on all aspects of classical an...
crossworks.holycross.edu
December 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Happy to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of the New England Classical Journal (52.2) is now published! Featuring an article on felicitas in late antiquity, two book reviews, and an in memoriam for Gil Lawall. Check it out at the link!
crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/
AncientBlueSky ClassicsBlueSky
crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/
AncientBlueSky ClassicsBlueSky
For anyone who happens to know: what's the earliest surviving epistolary collection of a pope? Damasus?
December 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
For anyone who happens to know: what's the earliest surviving epistolary collection of a pope? Damasus?
Me, yesterday: Susie Wiles sure has managed to keep a low profile.
December 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Me, yesterday: Susie Wiles sure has managed to keep a low profile.
Another lost work I long for: a copy of Seneca's Apocolocyntosis written in Claudian letters.
Come on, you know there had to be one.
Come on, you know there had to be one.
December 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Another lost work I long for: a copy of Seneca's Apocolocyntosis written in Claudian letters.
Come on, you know there had to be one.
Come on, you know there had to be one.
More on the lost works I wish had survived: the plays in (presumably?) Oscan performed in Rome during the time of Augustus (Suet. Div. Aug. 43):
December 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
More on the lost works I wish had survived: the plays in (presumably?) Oscan performed in Rome during the time of Augustus (Suet. Div. Aug. 43):
Thinking more about the injustices of which ancient works survive.
Seriously, we have about 20,000 pages of Galen (snooze!) but only precious fragments of Suetonius's "On Famous Courtesans," like the one where he tells about Omphale, the sex-worker who liked to dress Hercules up as a woman
Seriously, we have about 20,000 pages of Galen (snooze!) but only precious fragments of Suetonius's "On Famous Courtesans," like the one where he tells about Omphale, the sex-worker who liked to dress Hercules up as a woman
December 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Thinking more about the injustices of which ancient works survive.
Seriously, we have about 20,000 pages of Galen (snooze!) but only precious fragments of Suetonius's "On Famous Courtesans," like the one where he tells about Omphale, the sex-worker who liked to dress Hercules up as a woman
Seriously, we have about 20,000 pages of Galen (snooze!) but only precious fragments of Suetonius's "On Famous Courtesans," like the one where he tells about Omphale, the sex-worker who liked to dress Hercules up as a woman
Spring '26 syllabus coming after me:
December 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Spring '26 syllabus coming after me:
My top 5 (leaving aside those already named):
-Cornelia (mater gracchorum), complete correspondence
-Suetonius, "On Famous Courtesans"
-Suetonius, "On Greek Swear Words"
-Sulpicia Lepidina (Vindolanda), the complete correspondence
-Cicero's joke book, 3 vol.
-Cornelia (mater gracchorum), complete correspondence
-Suetonius, "On Famous Courtesans"
-Suetonius, "On Greek Swear Words"
-Sulpicia Lepidina (Vindolanda), the complete correspondence
-Cicero's joke book, 3 vol.
I'll play with my top 5:
Agrippina's Memoirs
Timaeus (yes, that's relevant to the Romans!)
Claudius' Tyrrhenika
Punic anything (some actual Sanchuniathon, maybe? I'm not picky here)
Pollio's histories
Agrippina's Memoirs
Timaeus (yes, that's relevant to the Romans!)
Claudius' Tyrrhenika
Punic anything (some actual Sanchuniathon, maybe? I'm not picky here)
Pollio's histories
For drama I’d take these sooner:
Accius’ Brutus
Ennius’ Andromacha
Pacuvius’ Medus
Varius’ Thyestes
Any other republican tragedy anyone else wants to name.
For imp lit I’d prob go:
Ag’s memoirs
Any other poetry by a woman
Pollio’s histories
Seneca Elder’s histories
A pomponius secundus tragedy
Accius’ Brutus
Ennius’ Andromacha
Pacuvius’ Medus
Varius’ Thyestes
Any other republican tragedy anyone else wants to name.
For imp lit I’d prob go:
Ag’s memoirs
Any other poetry by a woman
Pollio’s histories
Seneca Elder’s histories
A pomponius secundus tragedy
December 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My top 5 (leaving aside those already named):
-Cornelia (mater gracchorum), complete correspondence
-Suetonius, "On Famous Courtesans"
-Suetonius, "On Greek Swear Words"
-Sulpicia Lepidina (Vindolanda), the complete correspondence
-Cicero's joke book, 3 vol.
-Cornelia (mater gracchorum), complete correspondence
-Suetonius, "On Famous Courtesans"
-Suetonius, "On Greek Swear Words"
-Sulpicia Lepidina (Vindolanda), the complete correspondence
-Cicero's joke book, 3 vol.
Prometheus Bound: Aeschylus?
December 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Prometheus Bound: Aeschylus?
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Happy “Learn a New Language” month! Sign up for Introduction to Ge’ez, a #Language and #Paleography course held in partnership with @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social, from July 5 to August 1, 2026, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota.
Deadline is February 23. Learn more: hmml.org/programs/intro-ge-ez
Deadline is February 23. Learn more: hmml.org/programs/intro-ge-ez
December 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Happy “Learn a New Language” month! Sign up for Introduction to Ge’ez, a #Language and #Paleography course held in partnership with @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social, from July 5 to August 1, 2026, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota.
Deadline is February 23. Learn more: hmml.org/programs/intro-ge-ez
Deadline is February 23. Learn more: hmml.org/programs/intro-ge-ez