Gregory Nagy and David Marwede have added a number of publications to the online offerings at the Center for Hellenic Studies: The Center for Hellenic Studies.

Wired has a reviewish thing of The Social Network which begins thusly: Mark Zuckerberg is many things, not least a student of the classics. He reads Latin and ancient Greek, and his personal motto is said to be Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit, or, loosely translated, “Maybe one day we’ll look back on all [...]

Daniel Drezner in Foreign Policy: 1) It will purge 300 from your system. The ancients were all about the purging, and this classic will help you void the non-so-classic film. True, the two stories don’t overlap all that much. And true, I like homoerotic goofiness as much as the next hetrosexual. That said, it’s a [...]

From the Guardian‘s book section: Would it have been better had some surviving works of ancient authors been lost? Classical studies are driven by the ambiguities of survival. It is not a question of what we have versus what we do not have (the surviving books of Dio’s History of Rome measured against the lost [...]

Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) ASCS 31 [2010] Proceedings Refereed papers from the 31st conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies Edited by Dr Neil O’Sullivan (The University of Western Australia) http://www.classics.uwa.edu.au/ascs31 …. some very interesting items here (dm)

Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Dear Colleagues, Phil Terry, the Director of the non-profit organisation, The Reading Odyssey, has asked me to circulate this invitation to join in our organisation’s activities, including a year-long celebration of the anniversary of the battle of Marathon. [...]

Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) University of Reading Department of Classics Postgraduate Latin Summer School 2011 Applications are invited for the Postgraduate Summer School in Latin hosted by the Department of Classics, University of Reading, UK. The Summer School will run 18 July-19 [...]

Seen on various lists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Position Description: The Department of the Classics in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a tenured position at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor in the area of Latin literature, beginning 16 August [...]

Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Practitioners’ Voices Issue 2 ‘Translation, Rewriting and Staging: Scholarship and Creativity in the Reception of Greek and Roman Poetry and Drama’ is now available at http://www2.open.ac.uk/practitioners This edition of Practitioners’ Voices publishes interviews with poets, translators and theatre [...]

Image via Wikipedia ante diem xi kalendas octobres Mercatus — stocking the cupboards after the ludi Romani 490 B.C. — battle of Marathon (yet another reckoning) 490 B.C. — the Athenian polemarch Callimachus dies during the Marathon campaign (contingent on the above, obviously) 19 B.C. — death of Publius Vergilius Maro (more likely than yesterday) [...]

Interesting art thingy via Reuters: Raging fire will appear to consume Rome’s ancient Colosseum in a dramatic art spectacle over the next few nights aimed at igniting debate on the fragility of Europe’s cultural heritage sites. For artists Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz, engulfing the vast Roman amphitheatre in virtual flames will be the culmination [...]

This is very peripheral to our purview, but what the heck … my kid plays Assassin’s Creed and the forthcoming Brotherhood installment looks very interesting. The trailer has this one set in Rome and one sees some very interesting monuments throughout … my spiders brought this one back because of mention of the Colosseum (which [...]

This is an interesting story … seems to come from Lansing, Michigan: Hail, Spartacus! No, that can’t be right. Spartacus was a humble slave who broke out of gladiator school, gathered a slave army and fought the fat cats of imperial Rome. He wore burlap, probably was a socialist, and never pulled rank on his [...]

From the world of UEFA Champions League soccer this week comes an item of interest … here’s a little excerpt from Sports Illustrated: The Union of European Football Associations said the banner reading “Romani ite domum” – Latin for “Romans Go Home” – was considered provocative. The slogan references a scene in the movie comedy [...]

As I gear up to clear up the backlog, I feel it’s necessary to mention that I am not associated with this Rogue Classicist blog (which seems to be by a person with a Classics background and a semi-similar taste in music as me) … another one with the same Rogue Classicist moniker which I [...]

ante diem xvi kalendas octobres ludi Romani (day 12) 253 A.D. — martyrdom of Cornelius at Rome