Day: April 2, 2014

The Search for Cleo’s Tomb is on Again!

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Brief item from CDN (dated February 14) … just the concluding bit:

[…]

Explicó que en su visita al presidente Medina le contó de su experiencia, y le informó que ha recibido los permisos de lugar para iniciar una nueva temporada.

La arqueóloga informó que la investigación comenzó en el año 2005 y que actualmente solo le quedan unos meses para finalizar dicha investigación.

“Será el próximo domingo cuando iniciemos la etapa final, la más importante del proyecto y el Presidente de la República se sintió muy orgulloso y me brindó todo su apoyo”, dijo.

In case you don’t want to press the google translate button, basically Martinez has the permit by now and is digging for at least a month … stay tuned.

Classicists and the 9/11 Monument

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Didn’t know there was a controversy raging over the quotation from Vergil on the 9/11 monument … perhaps there isn’t, but the New York Times asked three classicists (Helen Morales, Llewelyn Morgan, and Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer) to weigh in on the appropriateness of the out-of-context sentiment Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo … You can read their thoughts here:

Then, for old times’ sake, you can check out one of our posts from 2010 (when the inscription  is first mentioned in the 9/11 memorial context):

… and even earlier (2009) when we noted the quote had been used on the Valiants Memorial in Ottawa:

In any event, if there’s a problem with it now, they had four years (at least) to speak up (“they” not being the Classicists mentioned above, but the people who figured Classicists should be asked at this point in time) …

ED: BES Practical Epigraphy Workshop 24-26 June 2014

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Seen on the Classicists list:

British Epigraphy Society

Practical Epigraphy Workshop

CORBRIDGE

24 – 26 June 2014

The British Epigraphy Society will hold its sixth Practical Epigraphy

Workshop this summer from 24 to 26 June at Corbridge, Northumberland.

The workshop is aimed primarily at graduates wishing to develop hands-on

skills in working with epigraphic material, though we also welcome

applications from those at any stage in their career who would like to

acquire a greater sensitivity to the gathering of epigraphic evidence.

With expert tuition, participants will gain direct experience of the practical

elements of how to record and study inscriptions.

The programme will include the making of squeezes,

photographing and measuring inscribed stones,

and the production of transcriptions, translations and commentaries.

Participants may choose to work on Latin or Greek texts, and the workshop

will be open to those either with or without epigraphic training.

The course fee will be £90 for this three-day event.

Please direct enquiries about the workshop to Peter Haarer:

peter.haarer AT classics.ox.ac.uk

Application Forms can be obtained from Maggy Sasanow:

margaret.sasanow AT classics.ox.ac.uk.