tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46305039992807527652023-11-15T08:40:50.533-08:00Friends of Classics CalendarKeep up to date with what is going on in the Classics
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Click <a href="http://www.friends-classics.demon.co.uk"><b>HERE</b></a> to go back to Friends of ClassicsJAT55http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675416372149189361noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630503999280752765.post-92183682737627119602012-06-06T09:23:00.003-07:002012-06-06T09:23:46.201-07:0081st Anglo-American Conference of Historians<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Ancients and Moderns</span></b><br />
81st Anglo-American Conference of Historians<br />
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5-6 July 2012<br />
Senate House, London<br />
www.history.ac.uk/aach12<br />
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Ancients and Moderns is the theme of this years Anglo-American Conference, the flagship event of the Institute of Historical Research. The conference will take place on 5th and 6th July 2012 at Senate House, London.<br />
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With the Olympics upon us in the UK it seems an appropriate moment to think more broadly about the ways in which the classical world resonates in our own times, and how successive epochs of modernity since the Renaissance have situated themselves in relation to the various ancient civilisations. From political theory to aesthetics, across the arts of war and of peace, to concepts of education, family, gender, race and slavery, it is hard to think of a facet of the last millennium which has not been informed by the ancient past and through a range of media, including museums, painting, poetry, film and the built environment.<br />
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For our 81st Anglo-American conference we are joining with the Institute of Classical Studies to showcase the full extent of work on classical receptions, welcoming not only those scholars who work on Roman, Greek and Judaeo-Christian legacies and influences, but also historians of the ancient kingdoms and empires of Asia and pre-Colombian America.<br />
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Our plenary lecturers include: Paul Cartledge (Cambridge), Constanze Gthenke (Princeton), Mark Lewis (Stanford), Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA) and David Womersley (Oxford).<br />
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For programme and registration details, please visit www.history.ac.uk/aach12 or contact the IHR Events Office at AncientsandModerns@lon.ac.uk or on 0207 862 8756.<br />
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Many thanks,<br />
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Sarah Mayhew<br />
ICS 0207 862 8705<br />
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<b>An Introduction to Ancient Greece</b><br />
Start date<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>22-Sep-2012<br />
Duration<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2 days, 9.30am - 5pm<br />
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<b>Course Description </b><br />
Go back in time for two days of immersion in the extraordinary world of ancient Greece. In this course we’ll be studying many of the most important cultural and political inventions of the ancient Greeks. Spanning the archaic age of epic song, the classical era of science and reason, and globalisation of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, this course will introduce the people, places and ideas that made ancient Greece so unique.<br />
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In a series of lectures and discussion sessions we will investigate how the Greeks used myths and storytelling to analyse their own society, why the poetry of Homer shaped a millennium of Greek literature, and what Athenian democracy was all about. We’ll look at the horrors of Greek tragedy, the uproarious rudeness of Greek comedy, the values underpinning Greek athletic competitions, and the role of women throughout Greek society. We’ll also consider the ways in which this remarkable culture has influenced later writers, thinkers, and filmmakers, from Byron to Freud, from Virginia Woolf to Oliver Stone.<br />
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No previous knowledge required.<br />
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<b>What's Included </b><br />
Day 1<br />
Session 1: Introduction: 1000 Years of Ancient Greeks<br />
Session 2: Greek Myth as Art and Education<br />
Session 3: Homer and the Origins of Greek Literature (Charlotte Higgins)<br />
Session 4: The Invention of Reason: Philosophy, Science and Democracy<br />
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Homework: A short quiz and some extracts from ancient Greek plays, poems and novels to read for Day 2.<br />
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Day 2<br />
Session 1: Athletic Games and Festivals: The (Greek) World's a Stage<br />
Session 2: Tragic Women and Comic Communities: Insiders vs. Outsiders<br />
Session 3: Hellenistic Multiculturalism<br />
Session 4: What Happened Next? The Enduring Impact of the Ancient Greek World<br />
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<b>Tutor Details </b><br />
<b><i>Dr Emily Pillinger</i></b> studied Classics as an undergraduate at Oxford University and then went to teach and study in America for several years, gaining a Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University in 2009. She moved back to the UK to work at Bristol University and more recently at Balliol College, Oxford. Her research focuses on unusual forms of communication in the literature of the ancient world, and she is particularly interested in the mysterious voices of prophets, witches, and ghosts from beyond the grave.<br />
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<b><i>Charlotte Higgins</i></b> will offer a special guest lecture. She is chief arts writer for the Guardian newspaper, graduate in Classics from Oxford University, and author of the award-winning ‘It’s All Greek to Me’<br />
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<b>More Information </b><br />
This course will take place Saturday 22 - Sunday 23 September in London (TBC).<br />
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films will transmit April 11, 18 and 25 on BBC 2 at 9pm. The series tells the
story of the relationship between women and religion from 9000<span style="color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>BC onwards.<span style="color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>The female of the species has
always formed 50% of the population but has never occupied 50% of human
history. Yet the connection between women and the divine has been so strong in
all societies that when we follow the stories of 'divine women' we uncover
new evidence for the character of humanity and a fuller, truer history of the
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April 11 -When God Was A Girl - Programme One looks at the evolution of the
goddess in Turkey, Greece, Rome and India </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">April 18 - The Handmaids of God - Programme Two investigates
the story of the priestess; from the poet Sappho on the island of Lesbos to
Vestal Virgins in Rome and the elevated role of women in the early Christian
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">April 25 - The War of the Word - Programme Three explores a
missed 'golden age' for women, when historical characters such as the Empress</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Theodora in Byzantium, Wu Zetien in
China (the Empress who called herself Emperor), the early women of Islam and
Anglo-Saxon Hilda of Whitby, used the power of ancient traditions and new ideas
about religion and philosophy to wield influence in a man's world - notably
through the power of reform, education and the word. We look at evidence
through the Byzantine Empire, early Islam, in China, Northumbria and Oxford.<o:p></o:p></span></div>JAT55http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675416372149189361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630503999280752765.post-86077660030407138802011-12-23T08:31:00.000-08:002011-12-23T08:42:13.122-08:00Seven Olympians<p class="MsoNormal"><span ></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: large; "><span >Monday 16th January 2012, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: large; "><span >6:15 pm (supper with wine) for 6:45 pm start (ends 8:30 pm) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: large; "><span >St Olave's, Hart Street, London EC3 (near Tower Hill) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: large; "><span ><b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span ><b>A brand new series of supper lectures by Graham Fawcett on seven poets in history whose achievements on the page have made them national heroes, each evening also including the performance of a piano sonata by Beethoven</b></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; "><span ><span >Seven Olympians 1</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: large; "><span >Ovid <b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span ><b>and Simon Watterton plays Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 14 No. 1 in E major</b></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: large; "><span > </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: large; "><span >£15 (includes supper) on the door </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; "><span ><b style="font-size: large; "></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span ><b style="font-size: large; ">LECTURE ONE<br /></b></span></p><span ><b style="font-size: large; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; ">Monday 16th January 2012<br /></p></b><b style="font-size: large; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; ">at 6:15pm for 6:45pm<br /></p></b><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span >Ovid</span><br /></p></b><b style="font-size: large; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; ">Publius Ovidius Naso</p></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: large; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: large; ">"We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings”.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: large; ">All welcome, including those who will be coming for the first time.<br />These lectures are written to be enjoyed one by one.<br />You do not need to have attended the preceding lecture(s)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; "><b>Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.</b><br /><b>Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.<br /></b><b style="font-weight: bold; "></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">(Ovid, Elegy XIa)</b></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span ><b>About Ovid</b><span style="font-weight: 900;"><br /></span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: small; ">Consummate showman and stand-up comic that he was, and still is, nearly 2000 years on, Ovid would have relished the fact that the English-speaking world’s short version of his name is divo, male equivalent of a diva, but only when spelled backwards. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; "><span >Publius Ovidius Naso was born the year after Caesar’s assassination, was educated in Rome , and started reading his poems in public at the age of 16. His work gives us master-classes in how to write with profound and rollicking delicacy about love and sex, put on a spectacular poetic pageant of transformation myths, and sing with great pathos from direct experience of the heartache of exile.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; "><span >In BBC Radio 4's programme 'Archive on 4: Ted Hughes: Memorial Tones' on Saturday 10th December 2011, Seamus Heaney said of Ovid's importance to Ted Hughes, "I think the Metamorphoses, man into beast, or tree, or whatever, suited everything in him, you know. It wasn’t English but it was part of his inheritance in a way, Ovid having been part of the furnishings of the Renaissance mind with the corroboration of Shakespeare: the mythological part of himself responded to Ovid; a lot of energy released".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; "><span >Hughes’s Tales From Ovid (1997) is one of the latest poetry books to attest to Ovid’s powerful influence on English poets and poetry especially through his Metamorphoses, while Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare are among the earliest, Francis Meres declaring that that “the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare”. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; "><span >But so often the Ovid we admire is the metrical gymnast making us gasp over and over again at the outrageous virtuosity of his mastery of form and content, the parallel bars of a poetry which fine translations reveal as speaking to our own times. So modern does he go on sounding, indeed, that the Italian writer and critic Giuseppe Pontiggia has even described him as a “contemporary of the future”. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: large; "> </p><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: large; "><br /></div></span><br /><p></p>JAT55http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675416372149189361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630503999280752765.post-36063427869659520562011-11-29T12:12:00.001-08:002011-11-29T12:12:55.565-08:00Summer School for Teachers of Ancient History GCSE (OCR)<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Summer School for Teachers of Ancient History GCSE (OCR)<u1:p></u1:p></span></b><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">August 7-9 2012, University of Liverpool<u1:p></u1:p></span></b><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><u1:p> </u1:p>This three-day residential summer school is intended both to support existing teachers of the OCR GCSE in Ancient History and to help to equip other teachers (including those undertaking training, in whatever subject) who are planning to teach it in the future. Thanks to the generosity of the university’s John Percival Postgate fund, we are able to offer a substantial number of bursaries to cover the cost of attendance. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p> <u1:p></u1:p><u1:p></u1:p>JAT55http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675416372149189361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630503999280752765.post-82369883482432305332011-09-15T03:26:00.000-07:002011-09-15T03:29:04.318-07:00IN CELEBRATION OF CLASSICS<div>IN CELEBRATION OF CLASSICS, </div><div>16th SEPTEMBER, FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE, </div><div>EUSTON</div><div>173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ </div><div><br /></div><div>2.15 to 5.30 and 7.00 to 9.15 </div><div><br /></div><div>The success of Royal Holloway depends on its reputation as a mature centre for Higher Education and research of towering intellectual calibre. The study of ancient Greece and Rome, at a superlative scholarly and professional level, has always played a crucial role in the international perception of Royal Holloway’s standing as an institution which fosters intellectual activity of the highest quality. The value Classics adds to Royal Holloway’s brand is literally immeasurable, in that its enhancement of the college’s reputation may not be directly translated into monetary terms. By its nature, intellectual prestige takes many decades to take root and mature. It takes only weeks to destroy. </div><div><br /></div><div>This event has been made possible only by the extraordinary generosity, hard graft and collaboration of a very large number of people and organisations. The staff of the Department of Classics & Philosophy at Royal Holloway University of London is particularly grateful to the Classical Association, Peter Bing and Philip Hooker for their financial support, and for all kinds of energetic input from PhD students Mario Creatura, Lottie Parkyn, Matt Shipton, Laura Wood, as well as from Sarah Honeycombe and everyone on the Facebook Group. </div><div><br /></div><div>2.15 to 5.30 pm<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Classics at Royal Holloway and Bedford Colleges</div><div><br /></div><div>2.15<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Welcome and Introduction<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Prof. Edith Hall (RHUL)</div><div>2.30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>George Eliot<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Prof. Pat Easterling (Cambridge)</div><div>2.40<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarah Parker Remond<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dr. Justine McConnell (Oxford)</div><div>2.50<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Anna Swanwick<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Prof. Oliver Taplin (Oxford)</div><div>3.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sybella Gurney<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dr Sarah Butler (RHUL)</div><div>3.10<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Frances Stevenson<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dr. Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)</div><div>3.20<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Richmal Crompton<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Helen Eastman (RHUL)</div><div>3.30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dorothy Tarrant; Hugh Tredennick<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Prof. Anne Sheppard (RHUL)</div><div><br /></div><div>3.45<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Break</div><div><br /></div><div>4.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Rosemary Manning<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Adam Ganz (RHUL)</div><div>4.10<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Classics and Popular Culture<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dr. Nick Lowe (RHUL)</div><div>4.20<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Classics and the Material World<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dr. Janett Morgan (RHUL)</div><div>4.30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Classics and the Feminist Voice<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dr. Efi Spentzou (RHUL)</div><div>4.40<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A.N. Other</div><div>4.50<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>What next: the undergraduate view Sarah Honeycombe</div><div><br /></div><div>5.30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Break for sustenance at local cafes and pubs of your choice</div><div>6.00-7.00 Convene to the accompaniment of music by Charlie Rose</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>7.00 to 9.30 pm Classics Internationally</div><div><br /></div><div>7.00-7.30 Five-minute messages</div><div>Welcome and Introduction<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Prof. Edith Hall (RHUL)</div><div>Watching the department grow<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Prof. Anne Sheppard (RHUL)</div><div>Message from the University of London<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Prof. Maria Wyke (UCL)</div><div>Messages from Europe<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Prof. Ineke Sluiter (Leiden)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Prof. Kai Brodersen (Erfurt)</div><div>Message from America<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Prof. Ruth Scodel (Michigan)</div><div><br /></div><div>7.30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Education and Longterm Thinking <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Prof. Greg Woolf (St. </div><div>Andrews)</div><div>7.45<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A Poet on Classics and Being Closed<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tony Harrison (currently </div><div>RHUL)</div><div>8.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Histories that Make Us<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tom Holland (classicist and novelist)</div><div>8.15<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Classics as Living Word<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Live Canon, dir. Helen Eastman (RHUL)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>8.30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Politics of the Real World<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Prof. Paul Cartledge (Cambridge)</div><div>8.45<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Ancient Guide to Modern Life<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Natalie Haynes (classicist </div><div>and comedian)</div><div>9.00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Messages from Planet Classics<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Lottie Parkyn (RHUL) and team</div><div><br /></div><div>No need to register—just turn up wearing something purple</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>JAT55http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675416372149189361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630503999280752765.post-12192108122508312602011-05-14T05:47:00.000-07:002011-05-14T05:48:37.629-07:00Actors of Dionysus<div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><strong>LYSISTRATA RETURNS: LONDON 2011</strong></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><a href="http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/492715/46a213b998/1780501568/507ca63572/">http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/492715/46a213b998/1780501568/507ca63572/</a>JAT55http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675416372149189361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630503999280752765.post-80924075313311088412011-02-08T10:05:00.001-08:002011-02-08T10:05:57.085-08:00HORACE IN SHEFFIELD<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; ">From January-March 2011, the Moor plays host to an exhibition of Latin poetry in the old Sunwin House department store windows.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Rockingham Street</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"> writer James Blackwell, who studied Latin at the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">University</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"> of </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Sheffield</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">, is exhibiting his new translation of a famous Horatian ode in bright, eye-catching colours.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">It is hoped that the 7-foot-high, 22-foot-across poem will attract the attention of both passers-by and commuters on their bus-ride home.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Fittingly, in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"> view of the regeneration currently undergoing at The Moor, the poem is about renewal and the ever-changing seasons. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">The poem has been called the most beautiful in classical literature (by A.E. Housman), and was chosen by James because the ancient poet Horace’s self-deprecating humour and love of life closely echo the outlook of many present-day Sheffielders. <span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Anyone interested in the exhibition or Latin in general can email James at <a send="true" href="mailto:jbwell@orange.net">jbwell@orange.net</a>, or check out the facebook page ‘Sheffield Latin’ where there are pictures of the poem and some notes saying what all the things mean.</span></p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span>JAT55http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675416372149189361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630503999280752765.post-17611104454003850382010-09-04T02:27:00.000-07:002010-09-04T02:29:28.245-07:00Health and Medicine in the Graeco-Roman to Medieval Islamic Worlds<blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I would like to announce a weekend course at Rewley House, Oxford University, running from the 1st to 3rd October 2010 on Health and Medicine in the Graeco-Roman to Medieval Islamic Worlds.<br /><br /> The course is interdisciplinary and is taught by a number of scholars who have an expertise in various aspects of Classical, Byzantine and Medieval Islamic Medicine. </span></span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /> Some of the key aspects covered are:<br /></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><ul><li>How was the body and medicine understood by the Greeks, Romans and the Medieval Islamic world?</li><li>How did perceptions influence cures, diagnoses, operations and recuperations?</li></ul><br /> Our sources for study range from archaeological to literary, including anatomical votive body parts to Islamic philosophical and scientific commentaries on classical sources. Healing cults, bath houses, votive deposits, bones and medical treatises all provide evidence for issues related to health, the body and medicine in the past.<br /> This weekend programme will explore different facets of and approaches to medicine in the ancient world, comparing and contrasting evidence from the Greek to the Medieval Arab world.<br /><br /> Further information can be found at </span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a send="true" href="http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/results.php">http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/results.php</a></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a send="true" href="http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/results.php"></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Category=3D800#a_togg_O10P149AHR and the course is listed under the topic of 'health'.<br /><br /> Course code O10P149AHR<br /><br /> Registration till end of August.<br /><br /><br /> Fees From £105.00.<br /><br /> Please pass this on to anyone who might have an interest in medical history.<br /><br /> Thank you,<br /><br /> Drs. Patty Baker (University of Kent) and Neil Christie (Leicester University)</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Patty Baker<br /><br /></span></span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Classics and Archaeology,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">School of European Culture and Languages,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">University of Kent,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Canterbury,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Kent,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">CT2 7NF<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">+44 (0)1227 82 73 49<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote>JAT55http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675416372149189361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630503999280752765.post-82250301931996364112010-08-15T04:54:00.000-07:002010-08-15T05:00:11.263-07:00GOLDEN SPONGE STICK COMPETITION 2010<div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">NATIONAL WRITING COMPETITION</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Are you a budding young writer?</span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Could you create the next Flavia Gemina or Falco?</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Well here's your chance!</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Get in touch with:</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Jerry Pine</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Burgess Hill School for Girls</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Keymer Road, Burgess Hill, West Susses, RH15 0EG</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Email: j.pine610@btinternet.com</span></b></div>JAT55http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675416372149189361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630503999280752765.post-78265078496311349332010-08-08T09:25:00.001-07:002010-08-08T09:25:31.652-07:00The Athens Dialogues<tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1" width="100%"><table style="margin-bottom: 6px;font-size:0;" posinset="0" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK4" set hidefocus="true" tabindex="0" level="0" contenteditable="inherit" datapage border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" cols="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="color: rgb(45, 70, 90); 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font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;color:#000000;" > <div> <div> <div align="justify"><span style="color:#000000;">Interdisciplinary approaches, stimulating debates, diachronic perspectives and the broad participation of great minds of our times make Athens Dialogues a unique opportunity not to be missed!</span> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div></div></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr>JAT55http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675416372149189361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630503999280752765.post-7653758133208914102010-06-02T10:21:00.000-07:002010-06-02T10:24:06.395-07:00Poet in the City - Oral Epic Poetry - 7th June 2010 from 6.30 pm<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div class="Section1"><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;"><span lang="EN">Poet in the City is organising Oral Epic Poetry on 7 June in Kings Place, London, where Edith Hall will explore Homer's oral epic poetry and an actor will be reciting verses of the Iliad and the Odyssey in ancient Greek. Isabelle Hilton will talk about the now engraved Tibetan oral epic Gesar the Ling and Prof Jeff Opland will discuss Xhosa and Zulu praise poetry of South Africa.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;"><span lang="EN"><br /></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;"><span lang="EN"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Naomi Setchell<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Archivist/Administrator<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">University of Oxford, 66 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">+44 (0)1865 288210 / <a href="http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk</a></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></span></span></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;"><span lang="EN"><br /></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;"><span lang="EN"><br /></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="moz-text-plain" wrap="true" quote="true" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 13px;" lang="x-western"><pre wrap=""></pre></div>JAT55http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675416372149189361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630503999280752765.post-43213299153907437222010-05-22T05:40:00.000-07:002010-05-22T05:42:08.124-07:00Cambridge Greek Play 2010: AGAMEMNON<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The fortieth triennial Cambridge Greek Play will be staged this autumn at the Cambridge Arts Theatre. Directed by Helen Eastman and with an original score by Alex Silverman, this is a rare opportunity to see Aeschylus' Agamemnon fully staged in the original Greek. The play runs for eight performances from 13 to 16 October 2010; booking is now open at:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.cambridgeartstheatre.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">www.cambridgeartstheatre.com</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For more information about the production please visit </span></span><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.cambridgegreekplay.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">www.cambridgegreekplay.com</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />Christopher Whitton (Secretary/Producer)<br />Emmanuel College<br />Cambridge CB2 3AP</span></span>JAT55http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675416372149189361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4630503999280752765.post-70583570901643645072010-05-09T06:36:00.000-07:002010-05-09T06:37:50.493-07:00Ancient Greek Medicine<pre wrap=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Anyone interested in the ancient Greeks should visit the library of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1 to see our current exhibition on Ancient Hellenic Medicine and see how the physicians of the ancient world tackled medical conditions similar, and often identical, to those of our own times.</span></span></pre>JAT55http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675416372149189361noreply@blogger.com0