Archive for Yurie Hong
A Pompeiian Spectacle for a Sunday Night
Professor Martin Winkler, internationally renowned expert in Classics and Film Studies, wowed Gusties on Sunday night, Nov. 1st with his lecture “The Last Days of Pompeii: From Fact to Fiction and Film.” Professor Winkler took us through a whirlwind tour of receptions of Pompeii across the centuries and via a range of media, from books [...]
Classics Lecture
Barbara Weiden Boyd, Ph.D., delivered a lecture on “Example and Imitation: Shared Identity and Living Tradition in Augustan Rome” on Thursday, Oct. 22 to a full house. Professor Boyd is a professor of Greek and Latin at Bowdoin College in Maine and specializes in Latin poetry, especially the works of Virgil and Ovid. Her text [...]
dinner and a slide show
On Wednesday, Sept. 30, Eta Sigma Phi provided an Italian feast for hungry classicists. Globe-trotting Gusties Matt Panciera, Paula Wiggam, and Emma Ellingson shared slides and stories of their trips to Sicily and Florence. The event took place, fittingly, in the International Center–the perfect setting for inspiring wanderlust!
Comedy Night at Gustavus
On October 1st, a troupe of St. Olaf players brought us the Roman comedian Plautus’ Aulularia (’Little Pot o’ Gold’) – performed in English, with a bit of Latin thrown in for good measure. Students from all walks of Gustavus life enjoyed an hour of uproarious situation comedy, musical numbers, slapstick, and crazy coincidences. Read [...]
A Modern-Day Medea?
This in from England: A woman abandoned by her husband killed her two children in their sleep saying, “I’ve killed my two daughters. I did not want them to get hurt like I did.”
Coming Soon to a Theater Near You!
Clash of the Titans, a “classic” in its own right is being remade: Notable cast members include: Liam Neeson as Zeus, Ralph Fiennes as Hades, Sam Worthington (from the latest Terminator) as Perseus, and Polly Walker (from HBO’s Rome) as Cassiopeia. Also scheduled for production is Agora, a film about Hypatia, starring Rachel Weisz and directed [...]
The Business of Classical Wisdom
Apparently the business world (some of it, anyway) has discovered classics as a source of self-help and inspiration: “We’re capable, but not practiced, in the art of thinking,” says Phil Terry, CEO of Creative Good, a business consulting company, and the founder of a web-based reading and lecture organization called Reading Odyssey. “We’re all endowed with [...]
Sex(uality), Violence, and Spartacus: The Series!
Read all about it here: The upcoming Starz drama series Spartacus: Blood and Sand will include both gay and lesbian characters, executive producer Rob Tapert told TheTorchOnline.com today. The drama stars Andy Whitfield and Lucy Lawless in a retelling of the story of the legendary rebel Roman gladiator-slave who lived in Rome from 109 BC [...]
Who’s Buried in Cleopatra’s Tomb?
Read all about it here. Cleopatra died more than 2,000 years ago, at the age of 39. Before she was a slot machine, a video game, a cigarette, a condom, a caricature, a cliché or a synonym for Elizabeth Taylor, before she was reincarnated by Shakespeare, Dryden or Shaw, she was a nonfictional Egyptian queen. She [...]
Greek tragedy and ‘The Wire’
Thanks to my persistent brother-in-law’s recommendation, Sean and I just finished watching the acclaimed HBO show ‘The Wire’ a couple of weeks ago. Each of the five seasons is loosely structured around a single wire-tapping case in Baltimore that sheds light on some aspect of the city’s institutions (drug trade, unions, real estate/politics, education, and [...]