quidquid bene dictum est ab ullo, meum est
The first paragraph of an item in The Sporting News. I have absolutely no idea what he’s talking about …
Although being bored during this rather-brief off-season provides for a second Centauromachy, I believe that Greek Mythology will pardon my rather unique ability at beginning a metaphorical urinating contest with pseudo-journalists when they are writing on topics that measure lower than Rosie O’Donnell’s SAT score on their ‘personal interest meter’.
more …
via Centauromachy and TSN .
MAGUIRE, Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood
NETZ, Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic
RICHARDSON, The Language of Empire: Rome and the Idea of Empire from the Third Century BC to the Second Century AD
MURGATROYD, Apuleius Metamorphoses: An Intermediate Latin Reader
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):
Classicism and Romanticism: visit of Jonathan Sachs as IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor, 1st-5th March 2010
Organised by the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition and the Centre for Romantic Studies, University of Bristol.
Jon Sachs is Professor of English at Corcordia University, Montreal. His recent monograph, Romantic Antiquity: Rome in the British Imagination, 1789-1832, to be published by Oxford University Press later this year, examines how Romantic-period writers deployed Roman republican precedents to contest central aspects of political modernity, including the expansion of political franchise, the rise of mass democratic movements, and the consolidation and spread of empire. He is now working on a book about the idea of cultural decline in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, again focusing on the shifting interpretations, evaluation and deployment of the classical world in the ‘culture wars’ of this period. By exploring the origins and early development of ideas of the nature of ‘modernity’, his work goes to the heart of contemporary notions of culture and its importance.
1 March: research workshop on the uses of ancient ideas and examples in modern political discourse and debates, including contributions from Chris Bertram, James Thompson and Neville Morley. Seminar room G4, 3 Woodland Road, 4.30-6.00, followed by a reception in the Humanities Common Room.
2 March: Lecture: ‘The Cassandra of the State: Anna Barbauld’s Unknown Future and the Art of Prognosis’. With responses from Duncan Kennedy, Richard Sheldon and Ika Willis. The Link Rooms, 4.15-6.00, followed by a reception in the Humanities Common Room.
3 March: research workshop for postgraduates. Ground Floor Seminar Room, Graduate School, 2.00-4.00. Please contact n.d.g.morley AT bris.ac.uk to reserve a place and be sent the advance reading.
4 March: research workshop on ‘Classicism in Romanticism’, with contributions from Stephen Cheeke, David Hopkins, Bradley Stephens and Genevieve Liveley. 4.15-6.00, venue tbc.
All welcome. Any enquiries, please contact n.d.g.morley AT bris.ac.uk.
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):
Water and Identity in the Ancient World: a workshop
Department of Classics & Ancient History, Ritson Room, 22-23 March 2010.Programme:
22 March, 9.30am to 10am:
Welcome and coffee.
10 am to 1 pm:
Paola Ceccarelli (Durham), Introduction. Water, identity and culture: some
issues.
Penny Wilson (Durham), Twin Towns: The Relationship Between Towns Separated
by Nile branches in the Egyptian Delta
Johannes Haubold (Durham), The Achaemenid empire and the sea.
Robin Skeates (Durham), The place of the sea in the construction of
identities in Maltese prehistory.Buffet Lunch
2pm to 6.30 pm:
Mario Lombardo (Lecce), Small and Big Islands in Greek Colonisation.
Flavia Frisone (Lecce), Rivers and identity in ‘colonial’ scenarios. River
names and land constructing in Greek Western apoikia.
Christy Constantakopoulou (Birkbeck), Identity and resistance: discourses of
insularity in the Aegean world.
4.15 to 4.45pm: Tea.
Zena Kamash (Oxford), From the Euphrates to the Thames: exploring attitudes
towards water in Roman Britain and the Near East.
John Donaldson (International Boundaries Research Unit, Durham), Water
Boundaries and Geopolitics in the Modern World.
General discussion.Conference dinner
23 March, 9 am:
Steve Willis (Kent) Sea, Coast, Estuary, land and Culture in Iron Age
Britain
Jon Henderson (Nottingham) Expressing difference: Western Atlantic
Identities in the first millennium BC
Adam Rogers (Leicester), Water, identity and myth in Late Iron Age and Roman
Britain: some case studies.
11.15 to 11.45: Coffee.
Richard Hingley (Durham), Hadrian¹s Wall as an inlet of the sea?Nicholas Purcell (Oxford), discussant
Michael Shanks (Stanford), discussant1pm: Lunch for those who do not have to leave.
And, potentially, further discussion!The workshop is open to all, but if you wish to attend please contact the
organizers: Dr Richard Hingley (richard.hingley AT durham.ac.uk) or Dr Paola
Ceccarelli (paola.ceccarelli AT durham.ac.uk).
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