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Be Aware of the Ides

Over the past while, we’ve posted assorted things to mark the day, so here’s a sort of compendium (perhaps this will become a tradition):

• Caesar’s Last Day (our collection of ancient accounts of Caesar’s perforation)

• ‘Assassination Medal’ (a display at the BM last year)

• Caesar’s Assassination @ Youtube (Assorted videos at YouTube of interest)

… but we do have to highlight a couple, e.g.: SCTV’s production of Julius Caesar (interrupted by CCCP1 broadcast … the Julius Caesar resumes at roughly the four minute mark):

… and, of course, no Ides of March would be complete without Wayne And Schuster’s Classic Rinse the Blood Off My Toga:

• How to Celebrate the Ides of March (WikiHow gives suggestions how to ‘celebrate’ the day)

• The Ides of March (N.S. Gill always has a nice compendium as well)

This Day in Ancient History: idus martias

Image by Sebastià Giralt via Flickr

idus martias

• festival of Mars continues (day 15)
• festival of Jupiter
• festival/rites in honour of Anna Perenna (Happy New Year!)
• 44 B.C. — murder of Gaius Julius Caesar
• ca. 1st century A.D. — martyrdom of Longinus (the soldier who is said to have pierced Jesus’ side with a spear) in Cappadocia

DIG: Umbria Archaeological Field School

Seen on Rome-arch:

Just a short note that we are accepting applications for our Archaeological Field School at the site of the "Vicus ad Artis Tudertium" until the end of this month.

The field school runs two three-week sessions in June and July. We also accept non-credit-earning students.

More details at:

http://users.drew.edu/jmuccigr/vicusadmartis/

In addition, there’s a FastiOnLine article at:

http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2010-185.pdf

Feel free to contact me with any questions.

John D. Muccigrosso Associate Dean, CLA
jmuccigr AT drew.edu Drew University

Magna Mater Merkel?

Adrian Murdoch twittered this one last night:

Raw power is shifting, but to whom exactly? It is as if Merkel has somehow been crowned Magna Mater Europae by the Consilium, behind closed doors.

• via Total German triumph as EU minnows subjugated | Telegraph.

I suspect the Consilium didn’t know what is required to be an adherent of the Magna Mater … even the Romans knew to keep her ‘out’ of town …

The Pope’s On Our Side …

From Zenit:

Benedict XVI is encouraging the study of Latin, noting that the ancient language has much to offer in the study of ancient and modern history.

The Pope said this today, in Latin, after praying the midday Angelus together with those gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

His words were directed to the students and teachers of the Christelijk Lyceum of Veenendaal, Netherlands. The Pontiff stated that he was pleased that the students had come “to Rome to be strengthened in your endeavor to learn the Latin language.”

“In fact,” he added, “this language has much to contribute, both in the deeper study of antiquity and in the study of more recent history.”

• via ZENIT – Benedict XVI Encourages Study of Latin.

Also Seen: Sub Regno Cynarae

From the Guardian:

• Poem of the week: Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson | Guardian/a>.

Emperors of Rome: Domitian

Adrian Murdoch continues the series with Dom-the-fly-impaler:

• Domitian: Emperors of Rome

CFP: Teaching Roman Comedy (APA Panel)

Seen on the Classicists list (the date has past on this one; folsk might want to be aware of it though):

TEACHING ROMAN COMEDY
Sponsored by the American Classical League and organized by Timothy Moore,
University of Texas, Austin and Mary C. English, Montclair State University

The American Classical League invites scholars and teachers of Roman Comedy to submit abstracts for its panel session at the Philadelphia Meeting of the American Philological Association in 2012. We are particularly interested in papers that address how instructors at all levels have taught the plays of Plautus and Terence in Latin classes and Roman Civilization courses and how they have addressed the perceived difficulty of language and meter in these scripts. We are also interested in papers that explore the reception of Plautus and Terence and how more contemporary productions and/or interpretations of Roman comedy engage today’s students.

Abstracts should be submitted to Mary C. English, Dept. of Classics, Montclair State University, Montclair NJ 07043, (englishm AT mail.montclair.edu) and should be only one page in length. Please follow the instructions for the format of individual abstracts that appear in the APA Program Guide. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is Feb. 28, 2011.

DIG: “Villa degli Antonini” archaeological field school near Rome, July 2011

Seen on the Classics list:

We invite undergraduate and graduate students to take part in an archaeological fieldschool focusing on the remains of a large, 2nd century CE, probably imperial Roman villa in Genzano di Roma, about 20 miles south of the center of Rome next to the ancient Via Appia in the modern town of Genzano and the ancient territory of Lanuvium, during July 3-29. The 2011 season, which is our second campaign of investigation at the site, will further explore a large curving structure that is rich in multicolored glass mosaic fragments and in fragments of expensive floor and wall marble covering, as well as following up on results of geophysical surveying we conducted in 2011. No previous archaeological experience is required. Students will experience all aspects of archaeological fieldwork and will receive 6 semester hours of credit through the Department of Classics & General Humanities at Montclair State University. Cost is $3,500 plus airfare and tuition, which varies depending on in-state or out-of-state status.

People who are interested may contact Dr. Deborah Chatr Aryamontri, aryamontrid AT mail.montyclair.edu, or me, rennert AT mail.montclair.edu

Further information is available at
http://www.montclair.edu/GlobalEd/studyabroad/summer/institutes/summerabroad/Genzano/index.html

JOB: Latinist @ Temple (non-tenure)

Seen on Aegeanet:

The Department of Greek and Roman Classics at Temple University invites
applications from candidates for a possible (pending final budgetary
authorization) non-tenure-track, full-time position for 2011-12. This
position will appear in the March Positions for Classicists.

The department has particular needs in Latin language and Roman culture.
Evidence of successful teaching experience, especially in first-year
language and civilization courses, is essential. Some of the teaching
will be in Temple’s foundational General Education course, Mosaic
(http://www.temple.edu/provost/gened/courses/MosaicHumanitiesSeminar.html).
This position has the possibility of renewal, pending continued funding
and satisfactory performance. Candidates should send *ONLY* a cover
letter, by e-mail, with curriculum vitae (as attachments, preferably in
PDF format), indicating ability and experience for teaching Greek, Latin
and classical culture courses at all undergraduate levels.

*Candidates should only send dossiers if requested.*

Address applications to Professor Robin Mitchell-Boyask,
robin AT temple.edu. Our mail address
is: Department of Greek and Roman Classics, 321 Anderson Hall, 1114 W.
Berks St., Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 19122. Review of
applications will begin immediately, and will continue until the
position is filled. To receive full consideration initial applications
should arrive by 31 March 2011.

Questions and informal inquiries are welcome. More details about this
search are available at http://www.temple.edu/classics/jobs, and
candidates are urged to consult this page before sending their applications.

Temple University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer
and encourages applications from women and minorities.

CFP: Staging Death (AIA Panel)

Seen on Aegeanet:

STAGING DEATH: FUNERARY PERFORMANCE, ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE IN THE AEGEAN

113th Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, JAN 5-8, 2012

Colloquium organizer: Anastasia Dakouri-Hild (University of Virginia)

The performance of funerary rituals reinforces a sense of community, being a means to revive social memory and legitimize links with an ancestral past. Such rituals tend to be highly formalized and performed in specific contexts, times and places which set them apart from everyday life. They require a ‘stage’ (such as the cemetery and the site of a grave), a performer (such as a priest or priestess) and an audience (e.g. the attending members of a funeral). Funerary performance is highly communicative, a form of enacted, symbolic language articulated through material culture. The study of performance casts light on how social relations and mortuary beliefs were conceived and communicated within a society on the occasion of a particular event.

In the Aegean, the concept of funerary performance has been explored primarily through the study of cultic implements and artifacts employed in ceremonial processions, libations, feasting, the treatment, adornment and purification of bodies, offerings to the deceased etc. This session is meant to further explore the performative aspects of mortuary space, landscape and architecture in particular. We invite contributions on the semiotics of landscape, choice of burial areas, cemetery arrangement, interrelationship of mortuary and residential space, relationship of cemeteries or particular graves with prominent natural (hills, rivers) or other features (e.g. roads); the monumentality of tombs as a factor contributing to their theatricality; the architectural design and ‘domesticity’ of chamber tombs (doors, thresholds, benches, platforms, wall paintings); the arrangement and usage of associated structures and features, both interior and exterior; iconographical representation o

f funerary architecture etc.

Please send a 200-word abstract toad9h AT virginia.edu by Friday, March 25th.

CFP: Musical Reception of Classical Antiquity

Seen on Aegeanet:

Re-creation: Musical Reception of Classical Antiquity
A conference at the University of Iowa, October 27-29, 2011

Conference organizers: Robert Ketterer (University of Iowa), Andrew Simpson (Catholic University), Greg Hand (University of Iowa)

The power of music in Greek and Roman myth to move gods, men and even inanimate objects, and the descriptions of music in the imaginative and theoretical literature of antiquity, have inspired musicians since the Middle Ages to interpret and transform the ancient experience. Composers, librettists, and song writers have responded to the passions of the ancientsin every available genre and style of musical expression. This conference will explore ways that vocal and instrumental music throughout the world has received and recreated the art and culture of the Greeks and Romans. A concomitant goal of this conference is to bring together artists and scholars in many fields – classics, music, theater, film – to engage in meaningful dialogue about the ways in which classical antiquity informs and shapes their own work. Presenters whose specialty is classics areasked to emphasize musical examples in support of their arguments; specialists in music and other performing arts are reque

sted to focus their presentations on the ancient paradigms that have influenced the music of their particular field.

Conference activities will include lectures, paper sessions, live concerts, and a screening of silent films accompanied by live music composed by Andrew Simpson. Speakers who have already committed to the project include Mary-Kay Gamel (UC Santa Cruz), Simon Goldhill (King’s College, Cambridge), Wendy Heller (Princeton University), Jon Solomon (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), and Reinhard Strohm (Wadham College, Oxford). Concerts will include a performance by Iowa’s Center for New Music,and the first opera for which music survives, Jacopo Peri’s Euridice, premiered in Florence in 1600.

Scholars and artists interested in participating are asked to submit abstracts on relevant subjects that include, but need not be limited to:

• Stage music (e.g., opera, musical theater, incidental music)
• Choral and vocal music
• Instrumental music (e.g., chamber, orchestral, wind ensemble)
• Music for film, including silent film
• Electronic and digital music
• Interactive media including music
• Popular and folk music
• World (i.e., non-Western) musical responses to classical antiquity
• Social or political uses of antiquity in musical settings
• Ancient music theory and modern musical practice

The University of Iowa Classics Department’s journal Syllecta Classica will publish a collection of refereed papers from this conference. Syllecta Classica is available through Project Muse.

One-page abstracts should be sent as an electronic attachment to Professor Robert Ketterer, University of Iowa by April 15, 2011 (robert-ketterer AT uiowa.edu).

CFP: “Happy Talk”

Seen on the Classics list (sorry for the short notice on this one)

Happy Talk: Diversity of Speech in Greco-Roman Comedy and Satire

Sponsored by the Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature
Organized by Andrew S. Becker and Jerise Fogel

This panel will examine linguistic diversification in Greek and Roman comedy
& satire (broadly meant, to including any comic or satiric texts), including
dialect, socio-politically differentiated speech, ethnic language,
obscenity, tragicomic or parodic diction, musical and metrical variations,
gendered speech, syntactical variation, or generic play. The study of
language and linguistic turns in Greek and Roman comedy has been flourishing
in the past decade (e.g., the work of Colvin and Willi). Scholarly work on
orality and written discourse has also been a fertile seedbed, including but
not limited to the use of conventions from mime, tragedy, and Homeric
diction (e.g., Slings on comic imitation of vernacular speech and poetic
modes). Perhaps the most fertile source of the energy in the study of the
representation of language in Greek and Roman comedy & satire has been the
growing interest among classicists in the broader cultural contexts within
which the Greeks and Romans worked, played, wrote, and responded to dramatic
performances & satire. We hope to solicit new contributions to these (and
others) areas of research from scholars and performers interested in
exploring linguistic aspects, with a particular emphasis on the spoken joke,
word choice, expression of dialect in the Greek or Latin language, and the
use of speech to differentiate characters with respect to, e.g., class,
gender, ethnicity, status, or age. Presenters are asked to support,
illustrate, and enliven their papers by performing orally their chosen
ancient text or texts.

Abstracts should be sent as attachments to both Andrew S. Becker (Virginia
Tech, andrew.becker AT vt.edu) and Chris Ann Matteo (Stone Bridge High School,
camatteo AT mac.com) by March 15, 2011.

Abstracts must be no more than one page and contain no indication of
authorship. In accordance with APA regulations, all abstracts for papers
will be read anonymously by three outside readers. Please follow the
instructions for the format of individual abstracts that will appear in the
APA Program Guide.

CONF: Atlantic Classical Association

Seen in the Canadian Classical Bulletin:

Call for Papers for the 2011 Meeting of the Atlantic Classical Association
October 14-15, 2011 at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL

The Department of Classics and the Faculty of Arts at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s will be hosting the Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Classical Association on Friday October 14 and Saturday October 15, 2011.

Papers of 20 minutes duration are invited on any aspect of the Classical World (literature, history, archaeology, art history, philosophy, etc.). Please send an abstract of not more than 200 words and include your name and affiliation, the title of your paper and any A.V. requirements. Abstracts must be submitted by e-mail attachment to Milo Nikolic (aca.memorial AT gmail.com) by July 31, 2011.

Conference registration deadline is September 15th, 2011.

CONF: Classical Association of Canada

Seen in the Canadian Classical Bulletin:

Annual Meeting of the CAC / Congrès annuel de la SCÉC

Subscribers are reminded that the Annual Meeting of the CAC-SCEC will take place from Tuesday, May 10 – Thursday, May 12 at Dalhousie University in Halifax. On-site registration will begin in the afternoon of Monday, May 9, and paper sessions will begin at 8:30 a.m. on May 10.

Pre-registration on the conference website is required. Regular registration fees will be collected until April 8. After April 8, a surcharge will apply. The online registration process requires you (1) to log on to the conference site (if you have not already done so, you’ll need to create an account); (2) to click the "registration" tab, where you will find registration categories and options. (3) Please note that after completing online registration, you must finish the process manually by making out a cheque to "Dalhousie University” and sending it to the following postal address:

CAC-SCEC Registration
Department of Classics
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS
CANADA B3H 4P9

Remember that after April 8, late surcharges apply!

We very much look forward to welcoming many to Nova Scotia in May! You will find useful information about our conference and your stay in Halifax on the conference website. A full preliminary programme will be posted by March 18. Please direct any queries to peter.obrien AT dal.ca or cachfx AT dal.ca.

CONF: Representations of Power

Seen on the Classicists list:

Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar

Institute of Classical Studies
School of Advanced Study
University of London

s.royston-davies AT ucl.ac.uk
alexander.millington AT ucl.ac.uk
http://www.pgwip.org.uk

REPRESENTATIONS OF POWER

These seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. in room G35, Senate House,
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

4 March 2011
Victoria Györi, King’s College London
A role model for Augustus? The Augustus/Numa asses and the Roman mint of
23–12 BC

11 March 2011
Hannah Cornwell, Brasenose College, Oxford
Viewing the pacification of the Alps: the Augustan arch at Segusio

18 March 2011
Adrastos Omissi, St John’s College, Oxford
The representation of usurpation in imperial panegyric, AD 284–395

25 March 2011
Sushma Jansari, University College London
Megasthenes and Mauryan–Seleucid relations: fact or fiction?

CFP: Harryhausen and the Classical Tradition

Seen on the Classicists list:

ENDURING MONSTERS: HARRYHAUSEN AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION

Wed 9 November 2011 at the National Media Museum in Bradford

co-organised by Steve Green (Leeds) and Penny Goodman (Leeds)

Classics at Leeds, in collaboration with the National Media Museum at Bradford, is pleased to announce a one-day conference this November based around the film work of Ray Harryhausen.
Harryhausen’s distinctive brand of film animation of classical myth has captured the imagination of generations of viewers – his animation of skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and Medusa in Clash of the Titans (1981) are of course legendary.

This one-day conference seeks to explore reciprocal issues: the creative ways in which the Harryhausen films engage with the classical tradition and, conversely, the influence that the Harryhausen films have had on the visualisation of the classical world in more recent culture.

The conference will take place at the National Media Museum at Bradford to coincide with, and mark a celebration of, the arrival of the Harryhausen animation collection to the Museum. Classically-themed items from the Harryhausen collection will be available for viewing on the day. Moreover, as this date also marks the opening of the Bradford Animation Festival at the Museum, the conference will finish with a drinks reception to mark the occasion.

At this point, the co-organisers of the conference are putting out a call for papers. Confirmed speakers so far are: Penny Goodman (Leeds), Steve Green (Leeds), Helen Lovatt (Nottingham), Dunstan Lowe (Reading) and Gideon Nisbet (Birmingham).

The following areas of focus have been identified as particularly relevant and of interest to both Classics at Leeds and the National Media Museum:

* classical v. contemporary influence in Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and Clash of the Titans (1981)
* the creation of classical landscape/ architecture in Jason and the Argonauts (1960) and Clash of the Titans (1981)
* classical engagement in less-obvious/ less well-known Harryhausen outputs
* the influence of Harryhausen’s classical animations on subsequent visualisations of the classical world in (sub-) culture, esp. art, film, video/computer games
* the ‘remake’ of Clash of the Titans (2010)

Papers should last 20-25 minutes; abstracts should be no more than 300 words. Please send abstracts to both Steve Green (s.j.green AT leeds.ac.ukp.j.goodman AT leeds.ac.uk by Friday 29 April 2011. If you have any further queries, please feel free to contact the co-organisers.

A dedicated webpage for the conference will be constructed shortly.

and Penny Goodman (

CONF: 6th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel

Seen on the Classicists list:

6th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel

30-31 May 2011, Student Cultural Center ‘Xenia’

The Department of Philology (Division of Classics), University of Crete, is pleased to announce the organization and hosting of the 6th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel on 30 and 31 May 2011 at the Student Cultural Center ‘Xenia’ (16 Sofokli Venizelou Street) in Rethymnon. The topic of RICAN 6 is:

‘Holy Μen/Women and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel’

PROGRAMME

Monday 30 May 6:00 p.m.

Maaike Zimmerman (Groningen), Chair

Ken Dowden (Birmingham): “The Lies of Tiresias: Authority and its Enemies”
Gareth Schmeling (Florida): “The Small World of the Holy Man: To Travel (work the lecture circuit) and To Tell Stories (act the part of someone who knows). A Beginning in the Satyrica”
Costas Panayotakis (Glasgow): “Encolpius and the Charlatans”
Ian Repath (Swansea): “Cleitophon the Charlatan”

Tuesday 31 May 10:00 a.m.

Patrizia Liviabella-Furiani (Perugia), Chair

Ewen Bowie (Oxford): “A Land without Priests? The Religious Roles of Philetas and Dionysophanes in Longus, Daphnis and Chloe”
Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser (Göttingen): “Fickle Coloured Religion: Priests or Performers in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses?”
Ilaria Ramelli (Milano): “Lucian’s Peregrinus as Holy Man and Charlatan, and the Construction of the Contrast between Holy Men and Charlatans in the Acts of Mari”
Alain Billault (Paris-Sorbonne): “Holy Man or Charlatan? The Case of Calasiris in Heliodorus’ Aithiopika”

Tuesday 31 May 6:00 p.m.

Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins), Chair

Michael Paschalis (Crete): “The Philostratean Sophist as Proteus: Holy Man and Master of Deceit?”
Mario Andreassi (Bari): “Portrait of a Holy Man: Aesop in The Life”
John Morgan (Swansea): “The Monk’s Story: The Narrationes of Pseudo-Nilus of Ancyra”

Summation and Closing Remarks
by Silvia Montiglio

For further information please contact:
Michael Paschalis, michael.paschalis ATgmail.com
Stelios Panayotakis, panayotakis AT phl.uoc.gr

All welcome