It probably doesn’t need to be said, but this is of course a photo of me being a nerd. The students’ photos are not mine to post.
In classes, I use Prima Porta Augustus to talk about the link between art & politics. This study abroad program didn’t do the Vatican, but while in Rome I got to see the statue in person—and so did multiple students, who showed me their pics of doing the pose with Augustus.
Perks of teaching in Italy this summer: after sending off a chapter on the treatment of the corpses of assassinated emperors, I'm off to Castel Sant'Angelo/Hadrian's Mausoleum to see where Commodus and several other slain emperors ended up.
It still doesn’t feel real that I’m going to spend the next five weeks teaching in Italy, but I’m about to get on the plane, so here we go!
Anyone who was curious about my talk on Carthage in Metal Music but missed the Heavy Metal & Global Premodernity II conference can now see the talk on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAiG...
Did you know that there are over 250 metal songs about Carthage? This Saturday at 12:15 EST, I'll be talking about how metal remembers Carthage at Heavy Metal & Global Premodernity II. Attendance is free but registration is required.
As I prepare a glossary of Latin terms for my Roman Empire students to be able to tackle some articles on how democratic the republic was, I’m struck by the needless inaccessibility of so much otherwise great scholarship. Translating the Latin wouldn’t have weakened these pieces!
I’m saving this blog post to read later, since I was given a copy of that book for the holidays
One of my myth students got her younger sister the Iliad for Christmas, so the next generation of myth students is on the way! That or someone who gets bored by their Christmas present...