KCL History of Philosophy Podcasts
The KCL History of Philosophy series now has its own site: http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/— Terrence Lockyer (@TLockyer) January 30, 2011 … very nice; they’re done the preSocratics (14 podcasts), the Sophists, and Socrates and are just getting into that Plato guy …
Classical Tailgating
Tom Payne gives the big contest a Classics spin over at ESPN: via Super Bowl XLV: Fame, celebrity and precedents from ancient Greece and Rome | ESPN. Here’s a brief excerpt: The ancient Greeks set the precedent. Admittedly, a mini-season of tragic plays in the fifth century BC didn’t attracted 153 million viewers, but we [...]
Representations of the Trojan War
Interesting item: Our past shapes our present. How did stories of the Trojan War resonate w/ both ancient Greeks & medieval Europeans? http://bit.ly/gWDPKY— J. Paul Getty Museum (@GettyMuseum) January 31, 2011
Latin Threatened at UMaine!!
Image by jimmywayne via Flickr Not sure how I missed any previous coverage of this … from the Maine Campus: A Jan. 24 letter from University of Maine President Robert Kennedy to Faculty Senate President Michael Grillo indicates that three majors — Latin, German and women’s studies — are a step closer to the chopping [...]
A Trireme in Hudson Bay ???
Image via Wikipedia There are various versions of this one bouncing around, but my innate Canadianess almost forces me to use this version from Kathimerini: Trireme in New York City Inc, a US-based group of history buffs, is trying to raise the $3 million it will take to get an ancient Greek warship sailing in [...]
d.m. Richard M. Krill
Image via Wikipedia From the Toledo Blade: Richard M. Krill, 72, a longtime professor of the classics and a chairman of the department of foreign languages at the University of Toledo who taught Latin to high school students after his retirement, died Jan. 15. Mr. Krill of Toledo died at Sunset House of corticobasal degeneration, [...]
Emperors of Rome: Nero
Adrian Murdoch continues his look at the Roman emperors: Emperors of Rome: Nero
This Day in Ancient History: pridie kalendas februarias
Image via Wikipedia pridie kalendas februarias 1000 B.C. — temple of Hercules at Tyre completed (according to one ‘traditional’ reckoning) 817 B.C. — death of Anchises (according to the same reckoning) 36 B.C. — birth of Antonia (“Minor”), daughter of Marcus Antonius and Octavia and future mother of hope-to-be-emperor Germanicus and emperor-to-be Claudius c. 250 [...]
