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Classics Fashionistas and Freiert Followers, Come Forth!
Order your special edition Eta Sigma Phi t-shirts now! Show your love of fashion and Freiert by sporting this amazing design! This year’s shirt honors Professor Will Freiert on the occasion of his retirement and for every shirt purchased, HSF will donate $5 (out of the total $15 price) to the Flory-Freiert Fellowship fund. To […]
Trojan Hippo?
HT David Obermiller The comic strip ‘Get Fuzzy’ has been mining the Trojan War for its humor.
Eleven reasons Plutarch and Herodotus still matter.
The Classics Rock BY JAKUB GRYGIEL | APRIL 2, 2010 Is the study of classical history pointless? What useful knowledge will I glean from reading about some dead Roman governor of Britain? How will studying what the Delphic oracle had to say about the Persian advance into Greece help me in my future job at […]
Cinema and the Classroom
Take a look at this report on the influence of classics-themed films on enrollment in classics courses. What’s old continues to be new again! Read about it here. Fifty years ago, the story of Clash of the Titans – now a 3D movie starring Avatar’s Sam Worthington – would have been familiar to many school […]
Reflections on Rome by Nick Harper
I came, I saw you, and You conquered my heart
RIP Sir Kenneth Dover
Kenneth Dover, esteemed Greek scholar, passed away on March 7th at 89 years old just a few days before his birthday on March 11. Please take a moment to read some of his obituaries: Stephen Halliwell for the Guardian. Sir Kenneth Dover, who has died aged 89, was a towering figure in the study […]
Classics Movies By the Dozen
(thanks, Sasa) from The Independent. The Romans (and Greeks) are coming! Classical myths, legends and almost-true stories are about to invade a cinema near you They came, they saw, and – in a bid for box-office glory – ransacked the props room for swords and sandals. A phalanx of films based on the myths and […]
yet another Classics-themed film
You’ve seen Gladiator. And now…Centurion? Watch the preview here.
Socrates on the Dance Stage
The story of Socrates is a component of choreographer Mark Morris’ latest dance program. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/arts/dance/25socrate.html?emc=eta1 “Socrates,” though not simple, is simply beautiful: the most sensuously attractive new choreography that I have seen by Mr. Morris in more than 10 years. The work is set to Erik Satie’s cantata “Socrate.” (Mr. Morris made an earlier dance […]
Not just for movies anymore: Homer Rewritten
Read this review of two new takes on the Iliad and the Odyssey: Zachary Mason‘s marvelous “The Lost Books of the Odyssey” purports to be a translation of a “pre-Ptolemaic papyrus” discovered in the Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus, the real-life site of an ancient trash dump that has yielded many valuable papyri. Mr. Mason says […]