October 23, 2010

  • Image via Wikipedia Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) The Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song (http://www.let.ru.nl/greeksong) invites paper proposals for a conference to be held at Yale University, July 6–10, 2011 with the theme: Authorship, Authority, and Authenticity in…

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  • Image via Wikipedia Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) CINEMA AND ANTIQUITY: 2000-2011 The First J.P. Postgate Colloquium, University of Liverpool 12-14 July 2011 Keynote speakers: Monica Cyrino, Pantelis Michelakis, Jon Solomon, Martin Winkler (tbc), Maria Wyke The resurgence of cinema’s interest in antiquity…

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  • Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Postcolonial Latin American Adaptations of Greek and Roman Drama 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association January 5-8, 2012, Philadelphia, PA Organized by Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Saint Joseph’s University) Research on the reception of classical drama has…

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  • Classics Confidential

    This item from the Classicists list looks right up rogueclassicism’s proverbial alley (whatever that means): Dear all, We would like to draw your attention to a new Classics resource that we have been developing in collaboration with many friends and colleagues over the past few months. Its name is Classics Confidential and it has the…

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  • Fascism from Aesop?

    Image via Wikipedia From a reviewish sort of thing in the New Straits Times of Michael Macrone’s Brush Up Your Classics: An Informative and Entertaining Guide to Understanding the Most Famous Words, Phrases, and Stories of Greek Classics. (inter alia) Most of us are familiar with Aesop and his fables. He lived in sixth-century Greece.…

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