September 4, 2012
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seen on the Classicists list … sessions 5 and 6 seem of especial interest Nineteenth Annual Conference April 4-7, 2013 at The University of Georgia Athens, GA Call for Papers The Program Committee for the 2013 Convention: Margaret Amstutz, University of Georgia John Burt, Brandeis University Christopher Ricks, Boston University Hugh Ruppersburg, University of Georgia…
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We often bring up Roman numerals during Super Bowl time (when at least one sports writer has to come up with something at a deadline), but Slate has a really interesting piece on the popularity of Roman numerals when designating sequels and the like … here’s a bit in medias res: […] It began with…
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I meant to post this one earlier, but, as often, it was lost in my email box … Classicist Lauren Caldwell (Wesleyan U) comments on a certain American politician’s medical claims in the Hartford Courant: Students in my course on ancient medicine assume — often rightly — that the writings of Soranus of Ephesus, an…
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Seen on various lists: Tracking Hermes/Mercury: An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Virginia, March 27–29, 2014 Keynote speakers: Henk Versnel (Leiden), H. Alan Shapiro (Johns Hopkins), Joseph Farrell (Penn), and Deborah Boedeker (Brown). Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (= Roman Mercury) is the most versatile, complex, and ambiguous. His…
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posted with permission: Manuel Baumbach, Andrej Petrovic and Ivana Petrovic, eds. Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Hardcover, £63.00/$104.00. ISBN 978-0-521-11805-7. Reviewed by Deborah Boedeker, Brown University In his renowned handbook of Greek literature, first published in 1957, Albin Lesky devoted a scant page to pre-Hellenistic Greek epigrams…
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