Classicists
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Classicist and a Roman social and cultural historian Dr. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, O.B.E., director of the Herculaneum Conservation Project and master of Sidney Sussex College in England, will lecture at Washington and Lee University on Tuesday, March 23, at 7 p.m. in the Stackhouse Theater in the Elrod Commons.The title of the talk is “Herculaneum: Living…
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From the Emory Wheel: Renowned classicist and contemporary poet Anne Carson read her work at Emory last Wednesday as the 2010 Nix Mann lecturer. The Nix Mann lecture series features a distinguished lecturer on campus each year. Carson, who performed her poems “Cassandra Float Can” and “Bracko” in the Michael C. Carlos Museum, has received…
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Denise McCoskey, associate professor of classics at Miami University, has won the American Philological Association 2009 Award for Excellence in Teaching at the College Level. “I find it nearly impossible to write about Denise without resorting to a list of superlatives, but she really is extraordinary,” one nominator wrote. McCoskey joined Miami’s faculty in 1995.…
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Classics professor Eric Rebillard has been awarded a $45,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support his research on funerary behaviors among the common people of the Roman Empire. “Knowledge about Roman funerary rituals and burial practices is largely limited to a few texts and a few monuments, both products of the cultural…
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Interesting intro to a religion column in the Marion Star: In 1979, I sat in Dr. Richard Cutter’s early morning Greek class at Baylor University praying my professor would call on someone else to translate the homework passage from Plato. Advertisement My prayers were answered when he called on John. John was more clueless than…
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