February 13, 2012
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Eurekalert informs us of an interesting dissertation from UGothenburg: The birds in the Iliad help warriors and kings make difficult decisions and satisfy the basic human need for self-esteem and security. This is the conclusion of a new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, that analyses 35 bird scenes in Homer’s Iliad from…
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Just saw this in the Australian (originally in the Sunday Times) … I think we need a few more details, but here’s the plan, apparently: OXFORD UNIVERSITY has turned to wealthy philanthropists to raise tens of millions of dollars needed to rescue 75 key academic jobs threatened with the axe because of government cuts. The…
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2012.02.25: Kristine Louise Haugen, Richard Bentley: Poetry and Enlightenment. 2012.02.24: Lâtife Summerer, Alexander von Kienlin, Tatarlı: renklerin dönüşü / The return of colours / Rückkehr der Farben. 2012.02.23: Pier Luigi Donini, Aristotle and Determinism. (first published 1989 as Ethos: Aristotele e il determinismo). Artistote: traductions et études. 2012.02.22: Richard V. Cudjoe, The Social and Legal…
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Adrian Murdoch continues the series with the I-guess-he’ll-have-to-do-guy who came after that Apostate guy: #55 Jovian: Emperors of Rome
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idus februariae Parentalia (day 1) — a festival for honouring/appeasing the dead began on this day with a number of signs: temples were closed, altars did not have fires burn on them, people were forbidden to get married, and magistrates set down the trappings of their office. Fornacalia (day 1) — this was actually a…
rogue classicism 