January 17, 2009
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I’ve been trying to avoid wholesale quoting of articles (other than obituaries), but it’s necessary for this item lest I be accused of taking something out of context and making it incomprehensible: KINEAS and his Greek cavalry are dismissed from the all-conquering army of Alexander the Great and take up employment as mercenaries in the…
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Well, not really … the Canadian Opera Company has a new musical director and the Star has an interviewish/background thing on him. Inter alia: What would you be if you weren’t a performer? I’d be an unhappy person. To be serious: I might have become a professor/teacher for classics. I was quite deep into ancient…
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More cleaning of the inbox: There’s a new issue of Iris Magazine out (I love this cover). The recent AIA-APA shindig included a session on Podcasting and the Classics, which, of course, has a podcast presence on the web … personally, (rant) I think EVERY session should be thus covered as should every conference, ‘seminar’,…
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[This looks severely interesting]: UCL Department of Greek & Latin presents THE ANCIENT WORLD IN SILENT CINEMA an afternoon & evening of silent film screenings with piano accompaniment and related talks on Wednesday 28 January 2009, at UCL Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AH http://www.thebloomsbury.com/ The event is open to the public and…
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Some upcoming calls for papers/conferences with a web presence: Call for Submission for Volume 13 (2009) on GREEK TRAGEDY (Animus … a philosophy journal from Canada) Gods of SMALL THINGS (UReading … still in the CFP stage) Homo Romanus Graeca Oratione: from 2nd to 4th centuries: 300 years of Greek culture in the Roman Empire…
rogue classicism 