Dickinson College Commentaries Blog
Dickinson Summer Greek Workshop 2025: Iphigenia in Tauris
Dickinson College Summer Greek Workshop July 14-18, 2025 on Zoom Moderators: Dr. Emily Kearns, Senior Research Fellow in Greek Literature and Language, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford Dr. Scott Farrington, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Dickinson College. Euripides’ Iphigenia … Continue reading →
Who Killed Marrucinus Asinius?
My fourth semester Latin students have just started reading Catullus, and I wanted a sight-reading activity that would reinforce the vocabulary from poems 12 (Marrucine Asini) and 13 (Cenabis bene). I asked ChatGPT to create a brief murder mystery in … Continue reading →
Digital Commentaries and Generative AI
A fascinating recent paper by Sarah Abowitz, Alison Babeu, and Gregory Crane, all of Tufts University, asks whether “general advances in machine learning could power alternative digital aids” to reading foreign-language sources more easily, “requiring less labor” than the immense … Continue reading →