January 2009
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[This looks severely interesting]: UCL Department of Greek & Latin presents THE ANCIENT WORLD IN SILENT CINEMA an afternoon & evening of silent film screenings with piano accompaniment and related talks on Wednesday 28 January 2009, at UCL Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AH http://www.thebloomsbury.com/ The event is open to the public and…
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Some upcoming calls for papers/conferences with a web presence: Call for Submission for Volume 13 (2009) on GREEK TRAGEDY (Animus … a philosophy journal from Canada) Gods of SMALL THINGS (UReading … still in the CFP stage) Homo Romanus Graeca Oratione: from 2nd to 4th centuries: 300 years of Greek culture in the Roman Empire…
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IRONY AND THE IRONIC IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE A conference at the University of Exeter, 1st-4th September 2009 Call for Papers What precisely do we mean when we talk about ‘irony’? The term ‘irony’ is often bandied about – as a glance at the Index of any commentary or literary-critical monograph will attest. Both ‘irony’ and…
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The Classics Department of UMass Boston offers: Conventiculum Bostoniense, Latin by the Sea (held on the campus of UMass Dartmouth) August 1 – August 9, 2009 Vocamus vos, o magistri, ut linguam Latinam nobiscum in ora maritima colatis! The Conventiculum Bostoniense is a full-immersion residential experience, specifically designed for teachers in schools and universities, who…
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First order of the day is catching up with a pile of Italian items which may or may not make it to the English press … as always, in no particular order: A brief item on the discovery of a ‘warrior burial’ dating from the 4th century B.C. at San Severo: Guerriero dauno salvato dal…
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