Classics
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Image via Wikipedia Someone of importance in the UK has apparently suggested that two year degrees are feasible … if not desireable. In the Telegraph, Classicist Harry Mount seems to agree: The myth still exists that giving students lots of time to themselves to work produces much better results than locking them up in a…
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Image via Wikipedia A very interesting project at Cornell: Scholars looking for multiple sources and translations from among 1,000 years of ancient Greek and Latin texts will have a powerful new tool in their research arsenal with a database being developed at Cornell. The Classical Works Knowledge Base (CWKB) — a relational database and specialized…
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A spelling mistake in ancient Greek on the doors to the Cambridge University classics faculty has left officials red-faced. The stylish new entrance to the £1.3 million extension at the department, on the university’s Sidgwick site, boasts glass doors emblazoned with a quote by Aristotle, chosen by academics from the faculty. But the quote –…
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The Summer 2010 edition of Iris is out this month, and the theme of this issue is crime and punishment in the ancient world. Contents include: * Romans behaving badly: crime and punishment in Rome * Iris chat: Andrew Irvine, author of ‘Socrates on Trial’ * CSI Athens: the crime scene in ancient Greece *…
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Nice feature on our favourite Cambridge don: Mary Beard: A classicist in a class of her own | The Observer.
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