March 2011
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Tip o’ the pileus and congratulations to Charles Pazdernik for pointing us to coverage of an interesting debate: It is 2012, and the world has ended. There is one life raft prepared to take a select group to safety, and there is only one vacant seat. First featured on NPR’s This American Life, the Life…
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nonae martiaeFestival of Mars continues (day 7) rites at the temple of Vediovis on the Capitoline 322 B.C. — death of Aristotle (maybe) 149 A.D. — birth of a daughter, Lucilla, to the emperor Marcus Aurelius 161 A.D. — death of Antoninus Pius; dies imperii of Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius 203 A.D.– martyrdom of…
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Incredibly interesting item from the Independent: The author CS Lewis loved reading his translation of Virgil’s epic poem the Aeneid to fellow Oxford-based writers, including JRR Tolkien, at the Inklings, the famous informal literary discussion group they both frequented. The translation was believed to have been lost in a bonfire in 1964, a year after…
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Seen on the Classicists list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): ΜΟΥΣΑ ΠΑΙΖΕΙ. GREEK AND LATIN TECHNOPAEGNIA, RIDDLES, ACROSTICHS, POETIC PUNS, METRICAL CURIOSITIES, ETC. An international conference Institute of Classical Studies, University of Warsaw 5th-7th May 2011 Speakers: Krystyna Bartol (University of Poznań), Kim Beerden (Leiden…
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Seen on the Classicists list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): Two positions as "wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter" are currently advertised at the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. For further details please see http://www.bbaw.de/stellenangebote
