From the ASCSA site (no … I do not understand why McMaster University has nothing mentioning this): With great sadness, the School reports that Daniel Joseph Geagan passed away at St. Joseph’s Villa, Dundas, Ontario, Canada on Friday, February 6, 2009, in his 72nd year. He is survived by his wife, Helen Augusta von Raits [...]
Archive for February 14, 2009
Podcast du jour: In Our Time on the Destruction of Carthage
Posted: February 14, 2009 by rogueclassicist in podcastsMy driving-to-work-and-back listening yesterday was a very interesting edition of In Our Time featuring Mary Beard, Jo Crawley-Quinn and Ellen O’Gorman. The topic of the conversation was the destruction of Carthage, but it went much beyond that and gave a very good overview of Rome’s dealings with Carthage in general, and there was much mention [...]
Every now and then, this story about the purported Roman origins of hopscotch pops up … most recently in the East London Advertiser: The game involving hopping between squares on a chalk grid dates back to Roman times. It was used originally for military training when foot soldiers ran in full armour and field packs [...]
Mark June 20 in your pda … that’s the date officially announced t’other day about the official opening date of the new Acropolis Museum … Grand opening in June (Kathimerini) Opening date set for long-delayed Acropolis Museum (CBC … nice photo of the museum) Greece to open new Acropolis museum in June (IHT) New Acropolis [...]
Well now that we’re past that Lupercalia unpleasantness, we can concentrate on other aspects of this Valentine’s Day (or Valentines Day, if you prefer) … seems that amicus noster Don Lateiner was amongst a pile of folks from various disciplines holding press conferences/having interviews about the origins of kissing. Most of the coverage seems to [...]
Wow … what bills itself as “Canada’s National Newspaper” (we Westerners were always skeptical of such) incipits a piece thusly: Word play occurs in unexpected places. Diane Lane, while promoting her recent movie Nights in Rodanthe, branched into a brief discussion of “cide.” “To decide is a great word,” she said, “because it’s like fratricide, [...]
COMIC INTERACTIONS: COMEDY ACROSS GENRES AND GENRES IN COMEDY Friday 17 – Saturday 18 July 2009 Department of Greek and Latin, UCL, and the Institute of Classical Studies A conference sponsored by the British Academy, the Institute of Classical Studies, and the Department of Greek and Latin. Speakers: Eric Csapo, Chris Carey, Edith Hall, Stephen [...]
CONF: Inscriptions and Their Uses in Ancient Literature
Posted: February 14, 2009 by rogueclassicist in ConferencesINSCRIPTIONS AND THEIR USES IN ANCIENT LITERATURE: A CONFERENCE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER 25-26TH JUNE 2009 Booking is now open for this conference, which aims to explore the possibilities which the literary record of ancient inscriptions offer both to those interested in understanding ancient attitudes towards inscriptions and to those [...]
CFP: Identity and Identification in Antiquity
Posted: February 14, 2009 by rogueclassicist in UncategorizedSupplementary Call for Papers Identity and Identification in Antiquity International conference organised by: Department of Classical Studies, Bar-Ilan University College of Law, Florida International University SECL, Classical and Archaeological Studies, University of Kent Where? College of Law, Florida International University, Miami, USA When? Tuesday 7 April to Thursday 9 April 2009 Deadlines? Supplementary call for [...]
