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Image via Wikipedia Scripsit Gary Dexter in the Telegraph: The Iliad got its title because the ancient name for Troy was ‘Ilion’, and the suffix -ad tended to denote poems. So far, so straightforward....

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Sword and Sandal Flicks @ McMaster (and elsewhere)!

Image via Wikipedia Some ClassCon in Maclean’s (Canada’s News Magazine): On a recent Tuesday evening, seven members of McMaster University’s classics club gathered in Room 719 of Togo Salmon Hall to...

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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xvi kalendas quinctilias

Image via Wikipedia ante diem xvi kalendas quinctilias 212 A.D. — martyrdom of Ferreolus and Ferrutio 1716 — Alexander Pope’s translation of the Iliad is published 1813 — birth of Otto Jahn...

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Marathon Iliad Reading at Bowdoin

From Bowdoin: Members of the 207-year-old Peucinian Society — a literary group and Bowdoin’s oldest student organization — recently read the complete Iliad aloud from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art...

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On the ‘Plausibility’ of the Iliad and Social Networks?

This is a bit of a strange one … my spiders started dragging back versions of this story the other day and it was interesting how different it was being spun depending on which journalist was covering...

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Slatkin, Power of Thetis Now Available Online

From the official announcement of the Center for Hellenic Studies: The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that the online edition of Laura Slatkin’s The Power of Thetis and Selected...

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Poets and Profs ~ Homer as Slam Poetry

Owen Cramer mentioned this article in UChicago Magazine yesterday on the Classics list … here’s the incipit: For Mark Eleveld, MLA’10, and Ron Maruszak, MLA’10, the realization was inescapable: Homer,...

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Also Seen: Donum natalicium digitaliter confectum Gregorio Nagy septuagenario...

A different approach (i.e. online) to a Festschrift over at the Center for Hellenic Studies: Donum natalicium digitaliter confectum Gregorio Nagy septuagenario a discipulis collegis familiaribus...

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Matters Homeric

This series is actually OUP hyping a new translation of the Iliad, but there’s a pretty good intro to Homer etc in these segments. The official intro: Barbara Graziosi and Anthony Verity introduce...

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Diagnostical Skepticism

Hot on the heels of the Odysseus in America post comes this item from Anesthesiology News: Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Achilles, of Peleus’ son, murderous, man-killer, fated to die of massive...

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Upcoming Iliad Marathon Reading at Northwestern

From the Daily Northwestern: Late at night on the Lakefill, Northwestern students will experience a different kind of Greek life as they conduct a marathon reading of “The Iliad” from May 23 to 24....

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