September 5, 2011
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Seen on the Classicists list: HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, TRAGEDY, a conference sponsored by University of South Florida Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies, February 24, 2012, Tampa, Florida Before history, tragedy, and philosophy were treated as cultural universals, and before they were defined as—or in opposition to—literary genres, historie, tragoidia, and philosophia were chapters in the history…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Poetics in the Greco-Roman World 4-9 October 2011 University of Belgrade/University College London/Institute of Classical Studies The University of Belgrade, in collaboration with University College London and the Institute of Classical Studies, is hosting an international conference on Greek and Roman poetics, which will take place in Belgrade from 4…
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Not sure the two ancient folks who made this list (Pythagoras and Empedocles) cross that line, really, but that’s a philosophical discussion more appropriate for a discussion over coffee and/or wine: 7 “Eccentric” Geniuses Who Were Clearly Just Insane | Cracked
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We haven’t had an installment of Classical Ink for a while, but Angelika Franz (who sports her own Classical Ink), spotted some Horace-inspired body art on a lifeguard and got his permission to post the photos: As always, feel free to send along your own photos of Classically-inspired body art … if they are, er,…
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Not sure if the headline which accompanies most versions of this is a remember-455-pun, but here`s the BBC version: Three historic monuments have been attacked by vandals in the Italian capital, Rome. In the first attack, a man was caught on security cameras chipping two pieces off a marble statue on a fountain in the…
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