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@lllogansays Quivira?

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Check out this piece from one of our interns, Jon Holste!

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Another one of our student interns out there killing the game!!

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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

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So proud of our intern @RebeccaDraughon!! Way to go 🎉

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Same. This is why our database of Greek & Latin texts is #openaccess!

[Dr. Nick Elder @nick_elder]

What are your favorite two words in academia?

I'll start: open access.

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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

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#Lucian is one of the most entertaining authors of classical antiquity. Check out his dialogue "Prometheus" on the Scaife Viewer:

https://t.co/vDTEc3wlfy

#randomtext

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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

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For those who don't want to read the "Strategemata" of Polyaenus in full, there is also a Sparknotes version available:

https://t.co/D4VkLXaCeE

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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

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Check out today's "random" text: the Odyssey.

https://t.co/SNATwx8oYQ

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Random text for 2/7/21: the letters of Ruricius I, Bishop of Limoges:

https://t.co/rGswopa50n

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Random work for 2/6/21: a Life of Aesop attributed to Maximus Planudes:

https://t.co/YJ8a6DA6fN

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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!

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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

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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

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Today's randomly-selected text is Pontius the Deacon's biography of St. Cyprian, bishop of Carthage in the 3rd century:

https://t.co/SwW1OUsdhF

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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

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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...