Classicist and a Roman social and cultural historian Dr. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, O.B.E., director of the Herculaneum Conservation Project and master of Sidney Sussex College in England, will lecture at Washington and Lee University on Tuesday, March 23, at 7 p.m. in the Stackhouse Theater in the Elrod Commons.The title of the talk is “Herculaneum: Living [...]

From the Emory Wheel: Renowned classicist and contemporary poet Anne Carson read her work at Emory last Wednesday as the 2010 Nix Mann lecturer. The Nix Mann lecture series features a distinguished lecturer on campus each year. Carson, who performed her poems “Cassandra Float Can” and “Bracko” in the Michael C. Carlos Museum, has received [...]

Denise McCoskey, associate professor of classics at Miami University, has won the American Philological Association 2009 Award for Excellence in Teaching at the College Level. “I find it nearly impossible to write about Denise without resorting to a list of superlatives, but she really is extraordinary,” one nominator wrote. McCoskey joined Miami’s faculty in 1995. [...]

Classics professor Eric Rebillard has been awarded a $45,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support his research on funerary behaviors among the common people of the Roman Empire. “Knowledge about Roman funerary rituals and burial practices is largely limited to a few texts and a few monuments, both products of the cultural [...]

Interesting intro to a religion column in the Marion Star: In 1979, I sat in Dr. Richard Cutter’s early morning Greek class at Baylor University praying my professor would call on someone else to translate the homework passage from Plato. Advertisement My prayers were answered when he called on John. John was more clueless than [...]

Another bit of catching up … Sally Knights has put together a new GCSE textbook on Classical Civilization: Bristol teacher publishes new classics textbook (Evening Post) The secret life of Randall McNeill: The secret lives of our profs (Lawrentian) An interview with John Prevas (and Steve Forbes) about their book, Power, Ambition, Glory: Steve Forbes, [...]

Congratulations to Caroline Lawrence for winning the Classical Association’s 2009 Prize: Prize for Roman Mysteries … and to Laurier’s Judith Fletcher, who is only the second Canadian to win the AJP’s Gildersleeve Prize: Laurier professor the second Canadian to win prestigious prize … and to Carl Huffman, who was among the recipients of the University [...]

Richard Martin’s approach to Homer was the subject of a press release from UWSTL: Classics professor presents Homeric poetry as performance art for the Assembly Series Michael Halleran is now provost at William and Mary: Halleran appointed provost of College

Assorted tidbits that have accumulated over the past while … Timothy Howe is amongst a handful who were granted tenure at St. Olaf: St. Olaf announces faculty promotions, tenure Peter Struck was talking about ‘Ancient Heroes and Superheroes’ in an appropriate venue: Batman, Superman leap off the page at Penn Museum superhero event Marie Bolchazy [...]

I’m trying out some new ‘organizational principles’ for certain types of post … one category will be devoted to items where a particular Classicist and/or their work is the focus, to wit: Paul Cartledge: The myths of ‘ancient Greece’ dispelled (Charlotte Higgins in the Guardian) Robert Graves: From Meccania to Atlantis – Part 9: Goodbye [...]

A reviewish sort of thing of a biography of Maurice Bowra  in the New Statesman includes this tantalizing bit, inter alia: He was a scholar of ancient Greek literature but, despite a string of books, produced nothing exceptional (one contemporary compared his prose to “a man writing luggage labels”) and failed to get an Oxford [...]