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In a striking fragment, Alcman comments “no more, sweet-throated, sacred-singing girls, can my limbs carry me; let, oh let me be a kerulos [a male halcyon], who flies with the halcyons over the wave’s blossom having a heart without pity, lilac like the sea, a holy bird” (Alcman fr. 26). The fragment presents the relationship between male poet and parthenaic chorus as similar to the flight of mythical birds over the ocean. They are alike in species but different in gender, united in identity and freedom, yet discrete.

In this paper I read the dance of the Amazons in Callimachus’ Hymn to Artemis (237-250) in relation to the dance of the Cretan sailors in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (513-523), proposing first an intertextual connection and then exploring an interpretive implication. Structural parallels between the two hymns have often been noted, especially the Artemis’ adaptation of the Apollo’s mid-way closure and then resumption (Bing and Uhrmeister; Vestrheim; Hunter and Fuhrer; Fain; Stephens).

The Work of Play: Ancient Worlds in Digital Gaming

In the past few decades, classical antiquity has undergone two transformations. Digital tools and methods have changed how we study it; digital media have changed how we imagine it. This paper argues that these processes have many intersections, to such a degree that ancient-world games should be included in the repertoire of digital tools for classicists.

Digital Rescue: Transkribus as a tool saving Wüst’s Lexicon Aristophaneum (ca. 1910) from oblivion.

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the utility of the Transkribus tool for creating machine learning models that can transcribe handwritten documents written in multiple languages, both ancient and modern, and in multiple scripts. Our recent success in digitizing Wüst’s Lexicon Aristophaneum (handwritten in German, Latin, and Ancient Greek) offers proof of the utility of this tool.

Translation Alignment and Machine Learning for Classical Languages

The State of Digital Classics in 2024

One of the most bewildering aspects of the transition from graduate student or contingent faculty to the tenure-track is the new, supervisory role one takes over the curriculum. When on the job market, applicants are expected to think creatively.

Through a narrative inquiry of four student-lecturers consisting of three females and one male, this paper explores the strategies employed by university student teachers and the challenges they face in their role of widening access to the Classics at the University of Ghana. Studies have reported both challenges and positive results in widening access and introducing new and innovative pedagogies to Classics in schools and communities (Holmes-Henderson et al. 2018, Taylor et al.

Building an environment that works for all students led me to the “flipped classroom” model in Spring 2023 for Latin 1.^[1] My flipped classroom model for Latin integrates technological engagement with the burgeoning comprehensive input Latin learning method (and some more traditional approaches) and an element of choice to encourage students to be active participants in their learning.

Queer pedagogy, as a model of education, strives to deconstruct the normative student/teacher relationship in order to bypass the epistemological limits caused by the disparate power structures inherent in traditional teaching models (See Pinar 1998; Rico 2002). In a post-pandemic teaching environment, where student engagement has been a well-noted challenge, queer pedagogy presents one potential solution to issues of student engagement.