Marco Perale
@mperale
Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Liverpool. Editor, The Classical Quarterly. Working class academic tweeting about Classics/Papyrology.
For the fiftieth anniversary of his doctorate, on 7 March 1873, Karl Lehrs coined these humorous ‘Ten Commandments’ for classical philologists. The original text in German can be found in his Kleine Schriften: archive.org/details/klei... English translation from William M. Calder III, CW 74.4.
“The life of a heroic man cannot but be short… however many the years, they will always be few compared to the fullness of his vitality.” The tragic end of Ioannis Sykoutris (1901–1937), classical philologist and professor at the University of Athens. greekreporter.com/2026/06/04/i...
1578 Stephanus edition of Plato, showing a passage of Timaeus with the Latin translation and notes of Jean de Serres. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan...
Gabriel Fauré, L'horizon chimérique, op. 118.3 Diane, Séléné, lune de beau métal, Qui reflète vers nous, par ta face déserte, Dans l'immortel ennui du calme sidéral, Le regret d'un soleil dont nous pleurons la perte. (text by Jean de La Ville de Mirmont) youtu.be/0Digh3RPBtQ?...
Antipater of Thessalonica on the best poetesses of ancient Greece: Praxilla; Moero; Anyte; Sappho; Erinna; Telesilla; Corinna; Nossis; Myrtis (Greek Anthology 9.26)
#Aristotle on what to fear: "Fear is sometimes defined as the anticipation of evil. It is true then that we fear all evil things, for example, disgrace, poverty, disease, lack of friends, death. There are some evils which it is right and noble to fear and base not to fear." Nicomachean Ethics 3.3.
New critical edition with commentary of Theocritus 16 by Vittoria Vairo out on August 17: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
Jane Lightfoot, Pseudo Manetho, Apotelesmatica, p. xi on writing ‘TLG commentaries’
Epicurus. An Introduction (Cambridge 1972) by J.M. Rist. Imagine writing this in an academic book today.
Epigram of Leonidas for the poetess Erinna, died at 19 y.o. (AP 7.12) The virgin bee, fresh voice among the poets, Erinna, while gathering the flowers of the Muses, Was snatched away by Hades to be his bride. True indeed were the words the maiden spoke in life: “You really are envious, Hades!”
New Iliad Book XXIII Green & Yellow, edited by Adrian Kelly. Out now in paperback www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
A 16th century edition of Hesychius' Dictionary. The edition was first printed in 1514 by Marcus Musurus at the press of Aldus Manutius in Venice, and was later reprinted in 1520 and 1521. This one is from Hagenau, Germany, by the printer Thomas Anshelm, from Baden-Baden archive.org/details/bub_...
Muchas gracias por tomarse el tiempo de escuchar mi ponencia hoy en las XIII Jornadas de Papirología, organizadas magníficamente este año por la Universidad de Navarra. jornadaspapirologia.hcommons.org/xiii-jornada... asociacionespanolapapirologia.hcommons.org
According to Palladas, A.P. 9.401 writing was a gift of Physis. Nature, who loves the rules of friendship, procured the tools to meet with those away from home: pen, paper, ink, and letters drawn by hand, tokens of the heart that grieves from afar.
Jornadas de Papirología in Pamplona, Spain with @sofiatorallas.bsky.social and @leiajimenez.bsky.social jornadaspapirologia.hcommons.org/xiii-jornada...
A gem from the 19th century: Beautiful Thoughts from Greek Authors, with English translations and lives of the authors, by Craufurd Tait Ramage, published in Liverpool in 1864. www.google.de/books/editio... "Each quotation is a separate bait, a temptation to feel greatly, and to do greatly"
New edition with commentary of Callimachus' epigrams. Callimachus: The Epigrams Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary Edited by: Susan A. Stephens and Benjamin Acosta-Hughes www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
New in the Hellenistica Groningana series: Theocritus and the Art of Allusion www.peeters-leuven.be/search_resul...
Job Opportunity in Wien. Director of the Vienna #Papyrus Collection: www.onb.ac.at/mehr/karrier...
Klaas A. Worp, the legendary author of more than 440 articles, chapters and monographs and 2841 #papyrus editions, has died aged 82. Sit tibi terra levis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaas_W...
Delighted to present on a new epic #Oxyrhynchus papyrus at the XIII Jornadas de Papirología in Pamplona. Programme: jornadaspapirologia.hcommons.org/xiii-jornada... (what a beautiful poster!). incl. a paper by @sofiatorallas.bsky.social on a Coptic fragment of the Acts of the Council of Ephesus
Rule and Revenue, Fiscality, Authority and Economic Power in the Hellenistic World @livancworlds.bsky.social University of Liverpool, 28-29 May 2026
Very grateful to Prolepsis Network for giving me the opportunity to speak about my Hexameter project at their cycle of seminars. 8 May 2026 at 4 30pm local time (CET), online, in case you're interested!
Workshop on Coptic #Papyrology at La Sapienza (in person only: 13, 20 and 27 May, and June 3, 10 and 17 June).
Hellenic Society & Roman Society Online Course Jan Haywood Divination in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds Wednesday 6, 13, 20, 27 May and 3 June 6pm-7.30pm (UK time) For more information and to book: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
Two more Loeb volumes forthcoming this summer: - ORPHIC Collection. Edited by Alberto Bernabé. Translated by Michael Chase - PLUTARCH. Moralia, Volume I. Edited and Translated by William H. Race www-loebclassics-com.liverpool.idm.oclc.org/newsitem/44/...
PANEL 29 (Pedagogy Workshop): Interfaces of Knowledge: Classics research at Liverpool for the classroom. With @benjcartlidge.bsky.social @elainam42.bsky.social and Charlotte Van Regenmortel #CA2026 #ClassicalAssociation
Recently published: Working with Manuscripts. A Guide for Textual Scholars by Liv Ingeborg Lied and Brent Nongbri yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... #papyrology