Summer Online Courses at Montclair State

Seen on the Classics list:

Next week the first of a series of summer terms begins at Montclair State University. There is plenty of time to register for those courses that begin in early June or even later — some do not begin until August 8th. We have fairly complete program in Classics as well as Humanities running this summer, nearly all online. Some of the standout courses

GNHU320-­-91 (19627)Special TopicsinInterdisciplinaryHuman

ities: BruceSpringsteen,TheManandtheMusic (online) GNHU320-­-92(11200)SpecialTopicsinInterdisciplinaryHumanities:Classics&Cinema (online) GNHU332-­-91 (11185) Special Topicsin Ancient History: Alexander the Great (online) GNHU283-­-91(10623)Women,SexandGenderintheAncientWorld(online) GNHU/REG209-­-91(10617)Introduction toGreekand RomanReligion (online) Some of these can be taken for graduate credit, if special arrangements are made with the instructor.

 Plus our regular offerings :  GNHU 115 (Troy and the Trojan War) (online) , GNHU 201 (General Humanities I F2F and 1 online section) , GNHU 202 (General Humanities II F2F ), GNHU 281 (Greek Civilization , online), GNHU 282 (Roman Civilization, online), GNHU 285 (Mythology, all sections online) . We also offer Latin I and II online

You can see all our Summer and Fall courses at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/90558904/SUMMER_FALL2014.pdf

It is easy for non-MSU students (even high school students) to take summer courses. See the summer sessions page at

http://www.montclair.edu/summer/

And also for visiting students http://www.montclair.edu/summer/register/visiting-students/

Finally, for those desiring to participate in an archaeological excavation this summer, on June 28 our fifth year of excavation at the ‘Villa of the Antontines’ at Genzano di Roma, Italy. There is still time to get on board, but you must contact Tim Renner (rennert AT mail.montclair.edu). For more on the Genzano program see

http://www.montclair.edu/chss/center-heritage-archaeological-studies/students/thevillaoftheantonines2014/

If you have any questions, or have problems registering for these courses, let me know. We can often help. And please pass the word to all interested people.

Jean Alvares, Chair, Classics and General Humanities (alvaresj AT mail.montclair.edu)

Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews ~ 05/13/14

  • 2014.05.19:  Alexander Riddiford, Madly After the Muses: Bengali Poet Michael Madhusudan Datta and his Reception of the Graeco-Roman Classics. Classical Presences.
  • 2014.05.18:  Phillip Sidney Horky, Plato and Pythagoreanism.
  • 2014.05.17:  R. W. Burgess, Michael Kulikowski, Mosaics of Time: The Latin Chronicle Traditions from the First Century BC to the Sixth Century AD. Volume I: A Historical Introduction to the Chronicle Genre from Its Origins to the High Middle Ages. Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 33.

What to do with a Classics Degree: Silicon Valley Edition

Must reading from Kristina Chew in this a.m.’s Chronicle of Higher Education … an important paragraph:

[…]
It turns out a humanities Ph.D. can provide you with precisely the opposite of what people think—skills that are applicable and even useful outside the academy. Graduate training provides one with well-honed research and analytical skills as well as the steadfastness to soldier on with a project in which progress comes slowly and with little immediate gratification. A Ph.D. in literature and languages means you have been trained to read with your mind alert to the play of words and the semiotic power of images. Training in classical philology means that you know you have to assess everything for trustworthiness, whether you’re reading a newly discovered Greek poem or the latest gossip on Gawker. […]

The rest:

 

Bryn Mawr Classical Review ~ Catching up a bit …

[n.b. I’m resuming including these … they might be a daily thing so I don’t fall behind]

  • 2014.05.16:  Sandrine Dubel, Alain Montandon, Mythes sacrificiels et ragoûts d’enfants. Mythographies et sociétés.
  • 2014.05.15:  John Nicols, Civic Patronage in the Roman Empire. Mnemosyne supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, 365.
  • 2014.05.14:  Gudrun Klebinder-Gauß, Keramik aus klassischen Kontexten im Apollon-Heiligtum von Ägina-Kolonna. Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie, 70; Contributions to the chronology of the eastern Mediterranean, 30.
  • 2014.05.13:  Nathan Rosenstein, Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC: The Imperial Republic. The Edinburgh history of ancient Rome.
  • 2014.05.12:  Francesca Murano, Le tabellae defixionum osche. Ricerche sulle lingue di frammentaria attestazione, 8.
  • 2014.05.11:  Valéry Berlincourt, Commenter la Thébaïde (16e-19e s.): Caspar von Barth et la tradition exégétique de Stace. Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 354.
  • 2014.05.10:  Michael C. Hoff, Rhys F. Townsend, Rough Cilicia: New Historical and Archaeological Approaches. Proceedings of an international conference held at Lincoln, Nebraska, October 2007.
  • 2014.05.09:  Richard Stoneman, Tristano Gargiulo, Il Romanzo di Alessandro, Volume II. Scrittori greci e latini.
  • 2014.05.08:  Gregory Recco, Eric Sanday, Plato’s ‘Laws’: Force and Truth in Politics. Studies in continental thought.
  • 2014.05.07:  Walter Burkert, La religion grecque à l’époque archaïque et classique. Traduction et mise à jour bibliographique par Pierre Bonnechere. Antiquité/Synthèses 13.
  • 2014.05.06:  Anthony Kaldellis, Ethnography after Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature. Empire and after.
  • 2014.05.05:  Carlos R. Galvão-Sobrinho, Doctrine and Power: Theological Controversy and Christian Leadership in the Later Roman Empire. Transformation of the classical heritage, 51.
  • 2014.05.04:  Ludwig Koenen, Jorma Kaimio, Maarit Kaimio, Robert W. Daniel, The Petra Papyri II. American Center of Oriental Research Publications, 7.
  • 2014.05.03:  Carl Deroux, Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, XVI. Collection Latomus, 338.
  • 2014.05.02:  J. van der Vliet, J. L. Hagen, Qasr Ibrim, Between Egypt and Africa: Studies in Cultural Exchange. (NINO symposium, Leiden, 11-12 December 2009). Egyptologische uitgaven, 26.
  • 2014.04.60:  Richard Sorabji, Perception, Conscience and Will in Ancient Philosophy. Variorum collected studies series, CS 1030.
  • 2014.04.59:  David L. Kennedy, Settlement and Soldiers in the Roman Near East. Variorum collected studies series, CS 1032.
  • 2014.04.58:  Alain Blanchard, Ménandre, tome II: Le Héros; L’Arbitrage; La Tondue; La Fabula incerta du Caire. Collection des Universités de France. Série grecque, 495.
  • 2014.04.57:  Caroline Vout, Sex on Show: Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome.