April 7, 2012
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Saw this a couple of weeks ago in the New York Times (inter alia): The story of his influence on the Princeton project is told by the American technology historian, George Dyson, in his book “Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe.” A compelling book, if puzzlingly discursive at times, it describes how a…
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Seen on various lists: Bologna University Greek and Latin Summer School (25th June – 13th July 2012) The Department of Classics and Italian studies of Bologna University welcomes applications to its intensive Greek and Latin Summer School (http://www.ficlit.unibo.it/dipartimento/summer-school). Registration is now open. The school offers courses in Greek and Latin language (at different levels: beginners…
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2012.04.09: Lee Fratantuono, Madness Transformed: a Reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. 2012.04.08: James J. O’Hara, Vergil. Aeneid Book 4. Focus Vergil Aeneid commentaries. 2012.04.07: Jennifer R. Ballengee, The Wound and the Witness. The Rhetoric of Torture. 2012.04.06: Lucia Athanassaki, Ewen Bowie, Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination. Trends in Classics – supplementary volumes,…
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Longtime readers of rogueclassicism will remember a series of posts we made a couple of years ago on the subject of the Aqua Traiana … in chronological order: Source of the Aqua Traiana Found? More on the Aqua Traiana Still More on the Aqua Traiana(includes materials from the O’Neills) Aqua Traiana in Peril? Aqua Traiana…
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posted with permission: Zachary P. Biles, Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 290. £60.00/$95.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76407-0. Reviewed by Ian C. Storey, Trent University In this study Biles does not address the usual topics of Aristophanes’ political “message” or his emulation of Euripides, but his…
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