As some of you know, we now have access to the excellent “Oxford Scholarly Editions Online.” Let’s celebrate with a tough quiz on Laitn poetry!
Instagram
Instagram has returned invalid data.-
Recent Posts
Archives
Test your knowledge of Latin poetry | OUPblog
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Test your knowledge of Latin poetry | OUPblog
Alexander the Great on In Our Time
You all know this is my favorite radio program, right?
Posted in Classics in the World, Useful Things
Comments Off on Alexander the Great on In Our Time
Plague-free Classics
In anticipation of flu season, the Classics Department welcomed a representative of Asklepios to our Tiber Island/hallway.
Haley and Asklepios representative.
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Plague-free Classics
Is it a forgery?
I pulled off my shelf an old student edition of Cicero’s Letters to find some sight-reading for Latin 210, and I discovered that my book has a pretty cool provenance:
There are lots of penciled notes–whether these are of Scullard or the prior owner I cannot yet say. I also have no memory of how this book came into my possession.
Posted in Nugae
Comments Off on Is it a forgery?
Scenes from ETC 2
It’s pretty neat to come to work and see this:
One of the students has made jam for the faculty.
Our faculty lounge offers farm-fresh peppers, a poppy seed loaf, and poultry magazines.
Every Wednesday morning, eggs appear in the refrigerator.
Just another day on ETC 2!
Posted in Nugae
Comments Off on Scenes from ETC 2
Updates on Syria’s Cultural Heritage and ISIS
The destruction of Syria’s cultural heritage by ISIS (i.e. ISIL, i.e. the so-called “Islamic State”) has been in the news recently due to the group’s actions in Palmyra, but it has targeted numerous other sites as well. For those interested in keeping up with the current situation in Syria, the blog of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) has been keeping a list of recent links to news regarding ISIS’s actions with respect to cultural heritage. It makes for depressing (but important) reading.
Posted in News
Comments Off on Updates on Syria’s Cultural Heritage and ISIS
Professor Landvatter goes to Cyprus
Petra tou Romiou / Aphrodite’s Birthplace, Cyprus
Before driving across the country to join the Classics Department, I spent five weeks this summer on Cyprus as a fellow at the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) to conduct research on the relationships between Cypriot and Egyptian burial practices during the Hellenistic Period (323 – 30 BCE). Cyprus was the major overseas territory of the Ptolemaic Empire and had always been a crossroads of the cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean. Though many (but not all) ancient Cypriots were Greek speakers, the material culture of the island exhibits influence from Anatolia, Egypt, and the Levant, as well as from the Greek cities of the Aegean. Continue reading
Posted in Classics Faculty News
Comments Off on Professor Landvatter goes to Cyprus
Professor Sabnis in Algeria
Here’s some stuff in French about the highlight of my summer, a conference on Apuleius in Souk Ahras (Thagaste), Algeria. You can see me speaking next to some flags.
And here is a picture of a donkey in Apuleius’ hometown Madauros (M’daourouch, Algeria):
This is a donkey in Madauros. Oh my god.
Posted in Classics Faculty News, Classics in the World
Comments Off on Professor Sabnis in Algeria
Article in Eidolon by Professor Seidman
And this article by Professor Seidman, of which some Reed Classics folks heard the beginnings, has appeared recently in Eidolon.
Posted in Classics Faculty News, Classics in the World
Comments Off on Article in Eidolon by Professor Seidman
Article on Lucian by Cecilia D’Anastasio ’13
This blog has been lying low this summer, but that is about to change! Lots of faculty news to come soon, but for now I’m super proud to link to an article by Cecilia D’Anastasio ’13 about Lucian’s True History as the first science fiction. Ben Stevens ’99 is quoted in the article as well. Yay! (I’m teaching this text for Greek 210 in fall, as it happens!)
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-earliest-science-fiction
Posted in Alumni, Classics in the World, News
Comments Off on Article on Lucian by Cecilia D’Anastasio ’13