Gabriel Bodard
Reader in Digital Classics, @dh-researchhub.bsky.social and @ics.bsky.social University of London. #EpiDoc #DigiClass #Epigraphy #Papyrology #AncientMagic #LinkedOpenData #Prosopography #3Dimaging #CulturalHeritage. Writes 100% in personal capacity.
- What is a Digital Humanities PhD? Seminar with DH colleagues from Cambridge, Edinburgh, London and Manchester, open to all students or others considering a DH PhD at some point. Monday 9th March 2026, 16:30 GMT. Online only. Register at: www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
- Congratulations to all the @sas-news.bsky.social graduands who were awarded their MAs, MPhils, MRes, LLMs or PhDs today. A lovely ceremony, very moving speeches from the two student representatives, and such a fascinating range of research topics.
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- 🫨 1964 years ago today an earthquake shook Pompeii and Herculaneum (so Seneca, Tacitus and others tell us, and we see in contemporary artistic depictions). It may also have been a sign of the slow awakening of Mount Vesuvius (fast forward 17 years...🔥). #onthisday in 62 CE.
- Coming up: Sunoikisis Digital Classics: 3D and 2½D Imaging. Thursday 5th February at 16:00 GMT (online via Youtube), with Megan Kasten @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social (Glasgow) and Mathilde Touillon-Ricci (British Museum) ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
- Both irt2021.inslib.kcl.ac.uk and ircyr2020.inslib.kcl.ac.uk seem to be dead today.
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- Happy 142nd birthday to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first fascicle of the first edition of which (A – ant) was published #onthisday in 1884.
- #TEIFriday I'm working on plans for a replacement for/radical updating of the EFES publication tool (github.com/EpiDoc/EFES/...), which will soon be ten years old—and based on even older, now deprecated/obsolete underlying software. Let's make this more sustainable and minimal!
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- Happy 181st birthday to "The Raven", Edgar Allen Poe's mannered, gothic, archaising poem of grief, madness and anthropomorphic avians, first published in the New York Evening Mirror #onthisday in 1845.
- Last call for this afternoon's free taster session in the Senate House Makerspace: Introduction to photogrammetry and 3D imaging for GLAM professionals. www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
- Coming up in the #SunoikisisDC programme… 3D Modelling and Visualisation, with @archaeobruja.bsky.social and Katrine Haydock, Thursday 29th January at 16:00 GMT ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
- Reposted by Gabriel Bodard⏰30 January⏰ is the deadline for the #CallForPapers for the UK-Ireland DH Association's 2026 Annual Event (15-16 June, University of Southampton & online). Theme: #Sustainability We look forward to receiving your proposals! digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-... #DigitalHumanities
- Digital Classicist Wiki editing session: Mediterranean antiquity themed content (including ancient societies and cultures adjacent to the Greco-Roman world). Today at 15:00 GMT. Please sign up at ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... for the link.
- Happy birthday to Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, 310 years old today, archaeologist, antiquarian and novelist who deciphered the Palmyrene and Phoenician scripts. Born #onthisday in 1716.
- Starting in an hour: #EpiDoc Office Hour. Please join us if you have any questions about EpiDoc XML, or just want to see what other people are up to. All interests and levels of experience welcome! ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
- Today's #SunoikisisDC session on the subject of "What is Digital Classics and Digital Cultural Heritage?" is now available to watch on Youtube. Full session page (slides to be added shortly), including video link, readings, resources and exercise can be found at github.com/SunoikisisDC...
- Happy 267th birthday to the @britishmuseum.bsky.social , which opened its doors to the public for the first time #onthisday in 1759.
- This really does look like being an excellent seminar and discussion. See you there! #ancientsky #romanmyth #ancienthistory
- iacta alea est! Roman general and would-be dictator Julius Caesar illegally led a legion across the Rubicon into the territory of Rome 2074 years ago today, irrevocably starting civil war. #onthisday in 49 BCE
- Found art: today in #ClassicalReception in video games…
- Bonus points: how would you capture these bits of this multilayered edition in #EpiDoc?
- #EpigraphyTuesday So what do we read? Illiterate lettercutter? Nonstandard use of Greek numerals? Hopelessly corrupt text? And what about that squiggle after the Ο/Θ? I'll leave you to decide what you'd do with this mess!
- Revisiting IRT (Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 1952/2009/2021) for #EpigraphyTuesday: IRT 690: Undated Greek funerary verse for Delarkes (found in Al-Khums/Homs, Libya, on road from Oea to Lepcis Magna) irt2021.inslib.kcl.ac.uk/en/inscripti...
- RIP Christina Georgina Rossetti, author of the sensual, uncanny poem "Goblin Market" (and niece of John Polidori, one of the first modern vampire authors), who died #onthisday 131 years ago.
- Happy 35th birthday to WorldWideWeb!
- also in less tyrannical news… Happy 100th birthday to Winnie-the-Pooh, who first appeared in print #onthisday in 1925. 🧸
- Happy 2027th birthday to Emperor Galba, first of the Year of Four Emperors; unpopular with both contemporaries and historians, he was deposed and assassinated after only seven months. Born #onthisday in 3 BCE.
- Gorgeous handbag!
- Happy (c.) 1783rd birthday to Diocletian, Roman Emperor who tried to rein in runaway inflation with an Edict on Maximum Prices in 301 CE, still the longest inscription known to us. Born #onthisday (but not entirely clear which year!)
