Seen on Classics (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):
will hold its annual institute Feb. 5-6, 2010
at Villanova University, Villanova, PA.The theme of the 2010 Institute is
"Performing the Past."
Program information can be found at
Please contact PCA President, Dr. Valentina DeNardis
with any questions (valentina.denardis AT villanova.edu).
Seen on Classics (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):
Northwestern University’s Classical Traditions Initiative and the Department of Classics present an Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar series event in the 2009-2010 series, ‘Out of Europe: Greek Drama in America’:
‘Greek Drama in America, 1900-1970′
A two-day conference on Friday 22 January and Saturday 23 January 2010 to be held in the John Evans Alumni Center, 1800 Sheridan Road, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Speakers include Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London (keynote lecture); Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland; Karelisa Hartigan, University of Florida; Thomas E. Jenkins, Trinity University; Vassilis Lambropoulos, University of Michigan; Artemis Leontis, University of Michigan; Susan Manning, Northwestern University; Niall W. Slater, Emory University; Shawn Sides, Rude Mechanicals Theater Company, Austin, Texas; with response by Linda Gates, Northwestern University.
The schedule for the two days can be accessed as a poster in PDF format at
www.sawyerseminar.northwestern.edu/january_tan.pdf, and as a web page at
www.sawyerseminar.northwestern.edu/conference_jan_2010.html.All are most welcome to attend.
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Further events in the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar series, 2009-2010:
‘Greek Drama in African-American Theatre’ conference, 12-13 March 2010
‘Classicizing Chicago’ conference and exhibition, 20-22 May 2010
For more information please see our website at
www.sawyerseminar.northwestern.edu or contact Dr Kathryn Bosher, Assistant Professor of Classics, Northwestern University (k-bosher ATnorthwestern.edu) or Dr Amanda Wrigley, Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics, Northwestern University (a-wrigley AT northwestern.edu).
Seen on Classics (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):
The University of Arizona Department of Classics offers the M.A. in Classics in four emphases: Ancient History, Classical Archaeology, Classical Philology, and Latin Pedagogy. Please share this link to an overview of our graduate program to any interested students:
http://www.classics.web.arizona.edu/applying_ua
Applications for Fall 2010 are due February 15.
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):
*At Home with Ovid: A Study Tour*
The most scandalous of Roman poets, Ovid was born in Sulmo, modern
Sulmona, in 43 BC and died in exile on the Black Sea in 17 AD, banished by the Emperor Augustus for an unknown crime. As well as his famous Metamorphoses he produced a large body of elegiac love poetry, which we will study in the perfect setting, the historic village of Pacentro, overlooking Sulmona and the mountain streams of Ovid’s birthplace. In this week-long course, we will read (in translation) across the range of Ovid’s poetry, examining his politics, poetics and erotics. The course is designed for anyone with a passion for the classics, whether or not you have read any Ovid before.Full details at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mary.zajicek/Ovid.html or contact Mary Zajicek at mzajicek AT brookes.ac.uk
Interesting item in the Yale Daily News on how the concept of what was important/what a major was developed over the years at Yale … Classics was strong for quite a while:
Not that it really matters, but today marks the one year anniversary of us moving from our old site to WordPress … and in that time, we had 998 posts (counting this one). Maybe this year I’ll find the time to transfer everything else over ….
pridie idus januarias
… recently returned from the University of Virginia, after they were discovered to have been illegally acquired. Our previous coverage (in reverse order): UVa Returns … Aidone Returns Redux … Getty Aphrodite
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):
Classics Department and KYKNOS research seminars Lent Term 2010.
KYKNOS seminars (marked as such below) begin at 6pm; all others at 5.15pm. All seminars take place in the Roderic Bowen Seminar Room. All welcome. For further information o.hodkinson AT lamp.ac.uk
21/01 Dr Jennifer Ingleheart, Durham ‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here: the reception of Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians in Ovid’s Exile Poetry’
28/01 Dr Angus Bowie, The Queen’s College, Oxford ‘The Odyssey looks at the Iliad’ KYKNOS
04/02 Dr Pauline Hanesworth, Lampeter ‘The Eleusinian Heracles: myth and ritual … again’
11/02 Dr Serafina Cuomo, Birkbeck College London ‘Accounts in inscriptions: who counted in classical Athens?’
18/02 No seminar
25/02 Greta Hawes, Bristol ‘Pausanias and the idea of Crete’ KYKNOS
04/03 Dr Luca Larpi, Manchester TBC (Late Antiquity topic)
11/03 Dr Christer Henriksen, Uppsala TBC (on Epigraphical Poetry)
18/03 TBC
25/03 Dr Steven Green, Leeds ‘Astrological Discretion in Augustan Literature’
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):
The Yorkshire Ancient Philosophy Network will meet, 10am-5pm in the Board Room at the Wilberforce Institute, Hull. All are welcome.
Location: WISE (Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation), University of Hull, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE. 10 mins walk from the Hull Railway Station. Link to map below.
Further details at our website/blog, "Sullogismos":
http://sullogismos.wordpress.com/Programme:
10:00-12:30 Reading Group
Plato Republic IV, 428-435 (in English, using Grube/Reeve translation, publ. Hackett)12:30-13:30 Lunch (own arrangements)
13:30-15:00 Malcolm Heath (Leeds)
"’Why are humans poetical animals? An experiment in Aristotelian anthropology."15:00-15:15 Coffee
15:15-16:45 Amber Carpenter (York)
"Does Plato think it is good for us to aim at happiness?"All academics and postgraduates with an interest in Ancient Philosophy are warmly welcomed.
Lunch: own arrangements.No booking is required, but an email to indicate attendance would enable us to circulate the papers to participants in advance.
Contact: Amber Carpenter (adc503 AT york.ac.uk), Jamie Dow (j.dow AT leeds.ac.uk) or Antony Hatzistavrou (A.hatzistavrou AT hull.ac.uk)
Map for Wilberforce Institute:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=HU1+1NE&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Hull+HU1+1NE,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&ei=q8pFS7jmKofw0wSI1tj0AQ&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA&ll=53.742214,-0.336199&spn=0.011751,0.027294&z=15
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):
STAGE, the Postgraduate Classical Association of the Universities of St Andrews, Glasgow and Edinburgh, announces its annual Postgraduate Conference for 2010 to be held on the 13th of February at the University of Edinburgh, and invites the submission of abstracts.
The conference will be held on the 13th of February in the David Hume Tower. Location details and campus maps can be found here: http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/contact
Registration begins at 10AM and would anyone interested in participating please email STAGECONFERENCE2010 AT GMAIL.COM or click REPLY with the word ATTEND in the subject box to give us an idea of numbers. Details to follow soon.
The purpose of the STAGE conference is to allow postgraduates in Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology in the UK and Europe to interact and exchange ideas, get feedback on their work in a receptive and low-pressure environment, and develop future directions for research. We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers making developed arguments, as well as for posters summarising developing research. It is our hope that postgraduates at all stages of their degrees will attend.
Abstracts for papers should be no longer than 200 words and should outline the paper?s argument. Proposals for posters should be no longer than 100 words and should describe what will be presented. In either case, applicants should also include details of their current degree, including institution, supervisor, and research topic. Papers and posters in any area of Classics, Ancient History or Archaeology are welcome. All proposals should be sent within the body of an email to stageconference2010
Visit our BLOG at http://stageconference2010.blogspot.com/ or
our FACEBOOK group at http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?tid=1295380620681#/group.php?gid=165325592546
Prom Iran’s PressTV:
A group of Iranian archeologists is planning to go to Egypt to study the remains of a great Persian army in the Sahara desert.
Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (ICHTO) Hamid Baqaei announced on Sunday that Egypt had agreed for the Iranian group to conduct studies there.
Two Italian brothers claimed to have found the remains of a great army sent by the Persian King Cambyses II to attack the Oasis of Siwa 2,500 years ago.
Egypt’s chief archeologist Zahi Hawass, however, rejected the discovery as “unfounded and misleading,” adding that as the Italian brothers had not been granted legal permission to excavate in Egypt their claims of having made a discovery was not credible.
“We have sent a letter to Egyptian cultural heritage officials and they have implicitly confirmed the existence of the remains of the Persian army,” IRNA quoted Baqaei as saying.
“They have also stated that the finds belong to the Egyptian government.”
… which is interesting given that any Iranian source I’ve ever seen on this has gone to great lengths to point out how Herodotus’ account doesn’t make sense. They seem to be setting out to prove a negative …
ante diem iii idus januarias
Haven’t seen coverage of this in the English press (or a photo, alas) … bronze head, probably Augustus, some 15cm high:
Il patrimonio archeologico valdostano si arricchisce di una testa bronzea risalente all’epoca romana. Il reperto è stato trovato nel centro storico di Aosta, durante alcune indagini (scavi) in piazza Roncas.
Si tratta di un’applique in bronzo raffigurante una testa virile di imperatore, probabilmente Augusto, alta circa 15 centimetri, e costituisce un reperto di grande importanza per le ricerche archeologiche in quanto si tratta della prima raffigurazione di un imperatore trovata in Valle d’Aosta.
Per l’assessore regionale alla Cultura, Laurent Vierin, “questo ritrovamento è testimone dell’importanza che rivestono gli scavi archeologici quale primo passo per una corretta ‘restitution’del patrimonio culturale”. Aggiunge: “La tutela e la valorizzazione riescono a dialogare e a riconsegnare alla comunità parti fondamentali del proprio Dna storico quali sono i beni culturali. Questo pregevole rinvenimento conferma l’importanza del patrimonio nella conoscenza delle nostre radici storiche”.
Una volta eseguite le necessarie operazioni di pulitura e restauro la testa bronzea potrà essere ammirata nei musei valdostani.
La Guardia di Finanza di Olbia ha trovato in casa di un 50enne del posto undici reperti di ”interesse archeologico” di probabile epoca Romana.
L’uomo ha recuperato il materiale durante una battuta di pesca subacquea, ed è stato denunciato alla Procura della Repubblica di Tempio Pausania.
Nell’ambito dell’operazione denominata dai finanzieri ”Cocci di Natale”, sono state sequestrate due anfore di epoca presumibilmente romana, un coccio di un anfora e 8 articoli di vasellame vario (piatti, coppette, vasetti) in condizioni ottimali. Il materiale è ora a disposizione dell’autorità giudiziaria di Tempio Pausania.
Warning: This article contains much that is uncertain and even speculative. You must therefore be over 18 to continue reading. On the other hand, the uncertainties and speculations are clearly marked as such. Moreover, the background of the story is unquestionably true.
This is the true part.
Each Jewish male 20 years or older was Biblically required to contribute a half shekel each year to the Tabernacle (Tent of Meeting) (see Exodus 30:11–16). In Temple times this half-shekel tax was used for upkeep of the Temple. After the Roman legions destroyed the Temple in 70 C.E., the emperor Vespasian imposed the so-called Fiscus Judaicus as a kind of replacement tax, to be used for the upkeep of the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus in Rome. Unlike the half-shekel tax, which was imposed only on adult males, the two-denarius Fiscus Judaicus was imposed on every Jew—male and female, young and old, in the Land of Israel and elsewhere.
More: The “New Cleopatra” and the Jewish Tax ~ Biblical Archaeology Review.
How and why and to what extent Greek culture was absorbed into the ancient Jewish world is not always clear, but that it was is undeniable.
To some extent, the answers depend on whether we study Judaism primarily as a separate culture, developed from its Biblical roots in an unbroken line, or whether we study it primarily as part of the wider cultural and religious history of the Mediterranean and the Near Eastern world. Scholars will naturally respond that both approaches are important. Nevertheless decisions taken at the start of any investigation about which aspect deserves more attention will inevitably color our conclusions. How can the right balance be achieved?
East Aurora High School hosted the Classical Association of Western New York 2009 Invitational Certamen competition on Sat., Dec. 5. The contest consisted of almost 200 students from more than 10 schools or districts, including East Aurora, Pittsford, Niagara Wheatfield, Bishop Timon/St. Jude, Clarence, Amherst, Williamsville and Orchard Park. East Aurora had 12 students who attained a first-, second-, or third-place award in various categories.
… from the East Aurora Advertiser.
