This week's "Ask the Apocrypeople" interview for my NTA class is Jonathan Holste, who answers our questions about the Acts of Thomas and His Wonderworking Skin. In the excerpt he discusses the title for the text (translated with @JanetSpittler for MNTA 2). https://t.co/gbyH5F4lOs
After a run of about two months, our Random Daily Text initiative is being retired for the time being. You can continue to discover and read all kinds of texts in Latin, Greek and other languages in the OGL Scaife Library:
https://t.co/jcL5N3nLae
#Lucian is one of the most entertaining authors of classical antiquity. Check out his dialogue "Prometheus" on the Scaife Viewer:
https://t.co/vDTEc3wlfy
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Featured today is Curtius Rufus' history of Alexander the Great, one of the most important extant sources for Alexander's career:
https://t.co/Z1E8jXgkuI
Wasn't there a Life of Aesop featured here recently? Today we have another one, apparently from the preface to a collection of Aesopic tales:
https://t.co/jeIkxw5z69
Today's random work is the Anacephalaiosis attributed to Epiphanius of Salamis:
https://t.co/2HAnkZaJCG
If someone knows what this is supposed to be, please leave a reply!
Our random text for 2/4 is a real treat: Cyprianus Gallus' Heptateuch, a verse epic (in Latin) based on the first seven books of the Hebrew Bible:
https://t.co/YkqGtkTrWC
Today's featured text is #Ptolemy's Syntaxis mathematica, also known as the Almagest, one of the most important scientific treatises of classical antiquity:
https://t.co/ct6ke5Il97
The first work of drama to be featured as part of our random texts series is Terence's Phormio, which you can read online in Latin or English:
https://t.co/wPzCPQbDqt
Hooray for another Periplous! Marcianus of Heraclea, Periplous maris externi:
https://t.co/iwOuHDOCNF
Note that this work covers places "outside the Pillars of Heracles". Atlantic Ocean and beyond...