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GEORGE FINLAY IN EGYPT AND SWITZERLAND: NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRAVEL, SCHOLARSHIP AND SOCIAL NETWORKS (2023)
Journal Article
Loy, M. (2023). GEORGE FINLAY IN EGYPT AND SWITZERLAND: NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRAVEL, SCHOLARSHIP AND SOCIAL NETWORKS. Antiquaries Journal, 103, 363-387. https://doi.org/10.1017/s000358152300032x

George Finlay was a British gentlemen and philhellene, resident in Greece in the mid-nineteenth century. His journals, letters, library and antiquities now reside at the British School at Athens, collections that provide a wealth of information both... Read More about GEORGE FINLAY IN EGYPT AND SWITZERLAND: NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRAVEL, SCHOLARSHIP AND SOCIAL NETWORKS.

Studying ancient orthography (2023)
Book Chapter
McDonald, K., & Dupraz, E. (2023). Studying ancient orthography. In Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography (285-304). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108766463

The study of orthography (spelling and writing systems), and its development over the history of language, is central to many areas of linguistic enquiry, offering insight into syntactic and morphological structures, phonology, typology, historical l... Read More about Studying ancient orthography.

Fortunatus et ille: Vergil’s Ironic Epicureanism (2023)
Book Chapter
Heslin, P. (2023). Fortunatus et ille: Vergil’s Ironic Epicureanism. In T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, & C. B. Polt (Eds.), Didactic Literature in the Roman World (47-67). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003378051-5

The end of the second book of the Georgics has long puzzled readers. Why does Virgil present such an unrealistically happy view of the life of the farmer here, when the poem offers so many examples of hardship and misery elsewhere? Why do these pas... Read More about Fortunatus et ille: Vergil’s Ironic Epicureanism.

Ghostly Reception and Translation ad spiritum: The Case of Nicholas Grimald’s Archipropheta (1548) (2023)
Journal Article
Jackson, L. (2023). Ghostly Reception and Translation ad spiritum: The Case of Nicholas Grimald’s Archipropheta (1548). Translation and Literature, 32(2), 139-156. https://doi.org/10.3366/tal.2023.0546

When considering the landscape of drama and theatre performance in the sixteenth century in terms of classical reception, original plays written in Latin have not been accorded full attention. The many hundreds of Latin plays written and performed in... Read More about Ghostly Reception and Translation ad spiritum: The Case of Nicholas Grimald’s Archipropheta (1548).

THE TABLET-MAKERS OF PYLOS: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE PRODUCTION OF LINEAR B TABLETS (2023)
Journal Article
Judson, A. P. (online). THE TABLET-MAKERS OF PYLOS: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE PRODUCTION OF LINEAR B TABLETS. Annual of the British School at Athens, 118, 147-170. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068245423000059

The Linear B administrative texts of Late Bronze Age Greece were written on clay tablets, whose production therefore formed the first stage in the process of document creation, though it generally remains unclear whether the tablets’ writers were als... Read More about THE TABLET-MAKERS OF PYLOS: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE PRODUCTION OF LINEAR B TABLETS.