[Guest post: Haley Tilt ’16]

Bailey Boatsman and I, Haley Tilt, represented Reed on April 25 at NUCAW, the undergraduate conference hosted by Willamette University in Salem. Bailey gave a talk on a painting she made, detailing the way Augustus manipulated pre-established beliefs and myths about augury in order to bolster his own divinely-wrought legitimacy. The painting was a hit, and it quickly gathered a small crowd of admirers during the breaks. I presented a talk on Lucretian puns, arguing that Lucretius uses wordplay in order to temper his potentially alienating Epicureanism. The talk went smoothly (minus a little hiccup in the handout process), and I got some really interesting questions at the end, some of which I hope to be ready to answer if I ever give the talk again (I will be adding Varro to my reading list, for one).

Via Professor Seidman’s recommendation, a new online journal for Classics:

EIDOLON.

I really like the fact that this program was preceded by one on the California Gold Rush, which is also great (esp. if, like me, you had to study California history in elementary school).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pqsk4#auto