Saving Us From Endless Boredom …
The incipit of a review of (Classicist) Peter Toohey, Boredom: A Lively History: In the late third century, the Roman city of Beneventum inscribed the following message of thanks: For Tanonius Marcellinus, a most distinguished man of the consular rank and a most worthy patron as well, because of the good deeds by which he [...]
Damnatio Memoriae in Modern Egypt
Nice bit of comparanda from the New York Times: LAST month, a Cairo court ordered that images of the ousted Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, and his wife, Suzanne, as well as their names, be removed from all “public squares, streets, libraries and other public institutions around the country.” Posters and portraits of the Mubaraks are [...]
Also Seen: Bristol Classical Podcasts on the Aeneid
Tip o’ the pileus to Terrence Lockyer for pointing this one out on Twitter a while back … currently there are four podcasts available, all about the Aeneid (specifically, an introduction, and one for books I, IV, and VII respectively). Bristol University | Department of Classics and Ancient History | Bristol Classical Podcasts.
CONF: The Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC
Seen on the Classicist list: Death of Drama or Birth of an Industry? the Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC Conference 19-20 July, 2011 The Centre for Classical & Near Eastern Studies of Australia (CCANESA) University of Sydney, Australia Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Some limited financial assistance in the form of bursaries [...]
Minoan Antikythera Mechanism?
Tip ‘ the pileus to Diana Wright, who sent in this tantalizingly brief item from Athens News (and it’s a month old … not sure why it hasn’t really spread outside of a handful of newspapers): Researcher Minas Tsikritsis who hails from Crete — where the Bronze Age Minoan civilization flourished from approximately 2700 BC [...]
CFP: Warfare in Antiquity: Approaches and Controversies
Seen on the Classicists list: Call for Papers Warfare in Antiquity: Approaches and Controversies Conference August 12-13th 2011 in University College Dublin, Ireland The study of ancient warfare is a broad and well established subject that stretches across a range of disciplines. However, persistent controversies regarding interpretations of and approaches to the subject matter remain. [...]
CONF: What Catullus Wrote
Seen on the Classicists list: What Catullus Wrote. An international conference on the poems of C. Valerius Catullus 20-21 May 2011. Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany Speakers include: Giuseppe Gilberto Biondi (Parma): Catullo, Sabellico (e dintorni) e … Giorgio Pasquali David Butterfield (Cambridge): ‘cui uideberis bella’: the influence of Baehrens and Housman [...]
CONF: Ancient Aesthetics and Social Class Conference
Seen on the Classicists list: This conference, organised jointly by King’s College London Classics Department and the Centre for the Reception of Greece & Rome at Royal Holloway, will take place on July 5th-6th 2011 in Room G 22/26 at the Institute of Classical Studies in Senate House, Malet St, London. The room holds only [...]
