Giulia Marolla

Philology – a love of words – is at the heart of the Antigone project. And today, we're delighted to announce a major annual prize for Classical Philology. The winner takes home the *full* Loeb library, and £5,000. Please share this news, and do go visit: antigonejournal.com/2025/11/antigo…

My favourite contest is back! RHONCHISSATOR, hands down!

The new high-resolution data set "Itiner-e" of the #Roman Road #Network is extremely impressive, also for #Byzantium - congratulation to our dear friend @tombrughmans and his team! itiner-e.org nature.com/articles/s4159…

@AntigoneJournal Antigone Podcast?

The Antigone website gets around a million views a year. Since we don't pay for any advertising (and we don't host any paid-for advertising!), this seems to suggest that people are keen to read medium-to-long essays about Classical topics. But what should we expand to doing next?

November 11th is the feast of St Martin of Tours. Here he's cutting his cloak to share it with a beggar. BnF NAF 16251; Images de la vie du Christ et des saints. 13th century (c.1280-1290); f.89r @GallicaBnF

It's high time to bring back the interjection *pax* (not to be confused with pāx!)

The University of Ottawa has suspended admissions to its Greek & Roman Studies programme. If the decision remains, Ancient Greek will be eliminated and Latin reduced to one year. This is the last programme in Ontario offering Ancient Greek at university level (in English & French). If you believe that access to classical languages matters, please sign and share ⬇️ 🔗 change.org/p/save-greek-a… #Classics #AncientGreek #Latin #HumanitiesMatter

First blogpost of the year, on 'Translating Ammianus Marcellinus. Book 14'! Three examples of progress in translation.👇

Scriptorium next to the tower of San Salvador de Tavara: a scribe has a knife & quill; the other is using a compass; & a seated man is cutting parchment with shears. The Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.429; 'Las Huelgas Apocalypse' ; Spain (Toledo?); 1220; f.183r @MorganLibrary

Off to Coimbra! Here is the programme of the panel "Female letter writers and addressees in Graeco-Roman antiquity" organised by @GavinKellyLatin and Janja Soldo.

Excited to be at CCC in Coimbra next week for this panel! Female letter writers and addressees in Graeco-Roman antiquity, organised by Gavin Kelly and Janja Soldo (Edinburgh), CCC Coimbra, 15th - 18th July 2025

@AntigoneJournal Or the Financial Times copied headlines from the Italian press without realising that "L'" is an Italian article 😅

One of those two great institutions, either the Vatican or the Financial Times, is using some pretty decadent Latin...

I enjoyed being interviewed by Anthony Kaldellis on his brilliant podcast Byzantium and friends about the periodisation of Latin literature (and a little about Greek), especially in Late Antiquity. byzantiumandfriends.podbean.com/.../135-latin.… (1/3)

DOGE terminated our current NEH grant with which we were developing Perseus6. Luckily, much of the work has been done. We should be able to get much, though not all, of the work that we had planned done. The backend is fairly solid and results should appear on the front end soon.

Un rilievo funebre da una tomba monumentale presso la Necropoli di Porta Sarno. pompeiisites.org/comunicati/un-…

🚀 Exciting opportunity! Apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (PF) with @CaFoscari! If you have a project in Arabic philosophy, don’t hesitate to reach out. 💡More info: unive.it/pag/28536/

Une impeccable édition des Lettres d’Évagre le Pontique par Paul Géhin vient de paraître dans la collection Sources chrétiennes.

New open access special issue of the Journal of Late Antiquity: Translation and Greek-Latin Bilingualism in Late Antiquity, with a paper by me on the history of "idiom" as a linguistic concept: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54365

NEW: @engfac's Dr Leah Veronese has unearthed a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th-century poetry collection. This is only the second known manuscript copy of the sonnet ever discovered. More info ⬇️

A scribe wearing trousers: just the thing for a cold scriptorium BL Royal 13 B VIII, f.22r @BLMedieval