LLC Classics
Willamette University
I don’t know how I only just found this, but I just found the best article from The Onion.
“A group of leading historians held a press conference Monday at the National Geographic Society to announce they had “entirely fabricated” ancient Greece, a culture long thought to be the intellectual basis of Western civilization.
The group acknowledged that the idea of a sophisticated, flourishing society existing in Greece more than two millennia ago was a complete fiction created by a team of some two dozen historians, anthropologists, and classicists who worked nonstop between 1971 and 1974 to forge “Greek” documents and artifacts.”
Have fun studying your fabrications!
http://www.theonion.com/article/historians-admit-to-inventing-ancient-greeks-18209?utm_campaign=SharedPost&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=TumblriOS
Many are familiar with his physical labors, but this account of his emotional trials helps to humanize the man, the myth, the legend…
Check out this cool blog on the different parallels that can be drawn between the HBO drama and real Roman historical figures. Some really great cultural references going on in our media!
http://blogs.transparent.com/latin/game-of-thrones-ancient-rome-part-ii/
I highly recommend reading this fascinating article that includes an awesome combination of science, history, and Classical studies.
Did your reading of Homer, Vergil, or any other classical author happen to inspire your own poetry? If yes, the magazine Tellus out of the UK would love to see your work:
Tellus is an annual magazine which celebrates the rich use of the classical past in contemporary poetry; http://www.tellusmagazine.co.uk/. Poetry submissions for Issue 5 are warmly invited (deadline 15th November). Please do pass on this message to any colleagues or students to whom you think this would be of interest.
I know that whenever I tell someone that I’m taking Latin, the immediate response is always, “say something in Latin!” Of course, I usually just say “veni, vidi, vici,” or something, but I know that I and many others want to know really how to speak conversational Latin. I recently uncovered a few links containing resources on conversational Latin, so here you go!
Simple Phrases!
http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Latin_phrasebook
This one’s just a preview of a book, but even the preview contains some pretty cool stuff. Unfortunately we don’t have it at Hatfield, but if you want it’s pretty easy to order through Summit.
http://www.amazon.com/Conversational-Latin-Oral-Proficiency-Dictionary/dp/086516438X?tag2=latinteach
In case you want to text your friends in Latin (email is too outdated, but that’s what they used for this article!)
http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Latin_for_e-mail
Et tandem, I thought this was a fascinating video on the importance of conversational Latin!
The Armenians of Istanbul: Church, Society, and Culture
- 7:30pm Sept. 26th, College of Law, Paulus Lecture Hall (201)
- Dr. Ron T. Marchese – University of Minnesota
The Deep Prehistory of Indian Gaming: The Perspective from Mesoamerica
- 7:30pm Oct. 4th, College of Law, Paulus Lecture Hall(201)
- Dr. Barbara Voorhies- University of California Santa Barbara
The 11th Century Decline of the Byzantine Empire Seen Through Contemporary Eyes
- 7:30pm Oct. 16th, Hatfield Library, Hatfield Room
- Dr. Dimitris Tsougarakis- Professor of Byzantine History, Willamette University
The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece: Greek and Roman Artworks Travel to Oregon!
- 7:30pm Oct. 25th, College of Law, Paulus Lecture Hall(201)
- Dr. Ann M. Nicgorski- Chair and Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Willamette University
Link to CASA events calendar
… Has contributed to the latest volume of Mochlos. This is Mochlos IIC: Period IV. The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery: The Human Remains and Other Finds. A brief description of the book and a list of the rest of it’s contributors can be found here.