Spring 2025

director: Molly Swetnam-Burland

team members: Patrick Carpenter, Emma Conkle, Devon Keesee, Linnea Mason, Ben McClarty, Mary Katherine Musick, Elissa Press, Hannah Ryan, Caroline Snodgress, Fred Wang

Progress:

• first draft of translation completed

• draft of didactic text about Roman education

• polished translation of the inscription of Quintus Sulpicius Maximus

• draft of didactic text about the inscription of Quintus Sulpicius Maximus

Summer 2025

Progress

• Molly Swetnam-Burland attended the Digital Humanities Summer Institute "Podcasting from Scratch" course.  Listen here to the practice "pilot" episode that she made about Roman handwriting, and the shownotes can be found here

• Molly Swetnam-Burland, Ben McClarty, and Patrick Carpenter are conducting research on the sources used for a specific section of the text - relating to the miracula mundi (wonders of the world)