More from the ever-growing depths of the ‘to blog’ file of my mailbox … for the past while, the fine folks at ABC Tasmania have been bringing Classicist Geoff Adams in to enlighten us about the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World … the series has just concluded (I think), so here they all are in one convenient post (n.b.: I couldn’t get the player to work in any of these, but downloading the file worked fine):
Day: May 21, 2012
Milman Parry on Epithets
This one’s been lurking in my box for a while … the Center for Hellenic Studies have put up a copy of Milman Parry’s doctoral dissertation (?) … here’s their description:
In this foundational and still critically important work, Parry offers a detailed and thorough analysis of proper name and epithet formulae. This analysis brought Parry to a stunning conclusion: the poems could not be the work of an individual poet but must be the product of a tradition. Parry’s lucid argumentation and persuasive methodology deserve and repay careful attention by all interested in Homer, ancient Greek poetics, and oral traditions.
Read it here (it opens to the preface; use the drop-down menu to get to chapters):
Greg Woolf on What’s New in Ancient Rome
Nice little video on why there’s still so much to learn in our field:
… and Greg Woolf also talks about what sustained the empire:
Greg Woolf also has a post at the OUP blog:
Emperors of Rome: Olybrius
Adrian Murdoch demonstrates once again that the ‘shadow emperors’ are a major lacuna in my education:
Classical Words of the Day
- belabor (Dictionary.com)
- diptych (OED)
… and the Latin Words of the Day (doing some source adjusting and reorganizing here):
https://twitter.com/#!/latinwordaday/status/204312611565740033
https://twitter.com/#!/latinlanguage/status/204362602904690688
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