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 [...]
Archive for January 17, 2009
What To Do With A Classics Degree (sort of)
Posted: January 17, 2009 by rogueclassicist in What to do with a Classics DegreeWell, 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 [...]
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’, [...]
[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 [...]
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 [...]
CFP: Irony and the Ironic in Classical Literature
Posted: January 17, 2009 by rogueclassicist in ConferencesIRONY AND THE IRONIC IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE A conference at the University of Exeter, 1st-4th September 2009 Call for Papers What precisely do we mean when we talk about ‘irony’? The term ‘irony’ is often bandied about – as a glance at the Index of any commentary or literary-critical monograph will attest. Both ‘irony’ and [...]
The Classics Department of UMass Boston offers: Conventiculum Bostoniense, Latin by the Sea (held on the campus of UMass Dartmouth) August 1 – August 9, 2009 Vocamus vos, o magistri, ut linguam Latinam nobiscum in ora maritima colatis! The Conventiculum Bostoniense is a full-immersion residential experience, specifically designed for teachers in schools and universities, who [...]
First order of the day is catching up with a pile of Italian items which may or may not make it to the English press … as always, in no particular order: A brief item on the discovery of a ‘warrior burial’ dating from the 4th century B.C. at San Severo: Guerriero dauno salvato dal [...]
