February 13, 2013
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From time to time my spiders bring back strange things, most of the time involving people I haven’t heard of and/or were only vaguely aware of. So this time they brought back and item from Digital Spy, citing an interview in Metro with Alain de Botton, who appears to be an atheist who has penned…
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This week, our Classics Confidential vodcast features Dr. Anastasia Bakogianni (OU) talking to Professor Andrew Earle Simpson (Benjamin T. Rome School of Music of The Catholic University of Washington, DC) about his operatic reception of Aeschylus’ Oresteia. You can listen to extracts from this three-part opera on the website http://www.andrewesimpson.com, which also contains additional links…
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Seen on the Classicists list: THEME: ‘Mass & Elite in Antiquity’ 14th Unisa Classics Colloquium, 24-26 October 2013 The conference organisers invite paper proposals on a topic with bearing on many current issues and debates. Scholars of the ancient world are encouraged to approach the theme from various perspectives and with cognisance of literary and…
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seen on the Classics list: *Talking Back to Teacher: Orality and Prosody in the Secondary and University Classroom *Chris Ann Matteo, Organizer *Sponsored by the Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature * Since Distler’s *Teach the Latin, I Pray You*, Traupman’s *Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency* and the target-language approach of…
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posted with permission: Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile. Edited by Marjorie Fisher, Peter Lacovara, Sue D’Auria, and Salma Ikram, with photographs by Chester Higgins, Jr. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2012. Distributed by Oxford University Press. Pp. xx + 452. Hardcover, $59.95. ISBN 978-977-416-478-1. Reviewed by Giovanni Ruffini,…
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