Happy 2104th birthday to Tullia, daughter of M. Tullius (the famous orator and republican politician) Cicero, who died after childbirth, in her third marriage, aged 34 (Feb 45) shortly followed by her son. Born possibly #onthisday c. 79 BCE.
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Gabriel Bodard
Профиль VivelyHe/him. Reader in Digital Classics @dh-researchhub.bsky.social & @ics.bsky.social University of London. #EpiDoc #DigiClass #Epigraphy #Papyrology #AncientMagic #LinkedOpenData #Prosopography #3Dimaging #CulturalHeritage. Writes 100% in personal capacity.
RIP 2241 years ago Gnaeus Servilius Geminus, Lucius Aemilius Paullus & Marcus Minucius Rufus, three Roman consuls and military officers who were slaughtered as the Roman force was surrounded and annihilated by Hannibal's numerically smaller Carthaginians at the Battle of Cannae #onthisday in 216 BCE
Encoding the Bronze Age: Digital Approaches to Cypro-Aegean Epigraphy, Tuesday 8th Sept 2026, one day workshop (10:30–17:00 BST), Institute of Classical Studies, London. Organised by Ester Salgarella, Gabriel Bodard & Federico Aurora. ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Encoding the Bronze Age: Digital Approaches to Cypro-Aegean Epigraphyics.sas.ac.ukDigital Classicist London seminar this week: Warriors without War on Archaic Crete: Testing Paradigms with Big Data and Social Network Analysis. Jesse Obert (University of South Florida). Friday, 31 July 2026, 17:00-18:30 BST ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Warriors without War on Archaic Crete: Testing Paradigms with Big Data and Social Network Analysisics.sas.ac.ukI agree with a lot of this. Of course a good review should ask how was this as a film—not did this "stick close to" the Odyssey or archaeological authenticity…
Professor EltonFWIW my take on Nolan's #Odyssey is here sententiaeantiquae.com/2026/07/24/on-viewing-nolans-odyssey/. Below I provide a summary. 2 principles have guided my wonderings. (i) I've read it as a film, not as a wordy epic poem. (ii) I've opted for generosity over cleverness. Others do the latter better.
When I asked on here a few months ago there seemed to be little appetite for an in-person, in-London #EpiDoc drop in session, but if anyone local would like to join us, drop me a note!
Gabriel Bodard#TEIFriday The #EpiDoc Study Group is a slightly smaller, in-person, London-based version of the online EpiDoc Office Hour (github.com/EpiDoc/Tutorials/wiki/EpiDoc-office-hour) : part practice session, part pedagogical sharing of expertise, part workshop for asking questions and bringing problems.
#TEIFriday We had an in-person EpiDoc Study Group in the @ics.bsky.social this morning, where we experimented with encoding the text and editorial decisions for an inscription from Aphrodisias (insaph.kcl.ac.uk/iaph2007/iAp... = www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139496...).
Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2007: 12.214insaph.kcl.ac.ukDigital Classicist London seminar, Friday 17th July at 17:00 BST: Mapping the Blue Horizon: A Digital Corpus Approach to the Blue-Range Color Complex in Classical Latin, by Burak Boşdurmaz (University of Koç) Stream live at youtu.be/Cgp30ZLiNCc
Mapping the Blue Horizon: A Digital Corpus Approach to the Blue-Range Color ComplexYouTube video by Digital Classicist London Seminarsyoutu.beThis afternoon (14:00 BST): Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Surrogates meeting 2: representation and annotation. Register for online participation: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #Epigraphy #DigitalHumanities
Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Surrogates, workshop 2ics.sas.ac.uk#DigiClass Wiki editing session *TODAY* at 16:00 BST: Digital Classicist Wiki Linked Open Data editing session, led by Sarah Middle and Tom Gheldof. Sign up for the zoom link: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Digital Classicist Wiki Linked Open Data editing sessionics.sas.ac.uk