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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....
View ArticleSword 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...
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleMarathon 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...
View ArticleOn 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...
View ArticleSlatkin, 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...
View ArticlePoets 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,...
View ArticleAlso 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...
View ArticleMatters 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...
View ArticleDiagnostical 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...
View ArticleUpcoming 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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