Elegiac Couplet
Quantitative, but in English:If I sit here in | my chair and think of a futurewhich I may not have, | what have I of the present?In transcription, with syllable boundaries:/ɪf . a͡ɪ . sɪt . hi͡ɪ.ɹ ɪn ....
View ArticleWorkshop on Linguistics and Poetics
Upcoming, a workshop I’ve been helping put together, at which I’m also presenting:
View ArticlePhilo the Epic Poet
(In honor of Stephen Carlson.) I recently happened upon the History Channel’s “Banned from the Bible” while channel-surfing. It made me curious about apocrypha. Googling turned up the Online Critical...
View ArticleLament
While I’m relieved to report that two friends and colleagues who teach at Virginia Tech are safe, my mind and heart stir nonetheless for them and everyone else there. A number—if not all—of us,...
View ArticleSafe
Our friend and colleague, Joe Eska, is safe. As is now known, the shooter majored in English, Joe’s home department. I caught sight of Joe being interviewed on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Here’s a...
View ArticleUniversitas iTunensis
Check out iTunes U, a new section of Apple’s iTunes Store, where audio (and video) of university lectures are available for free. Lo, some Classics offerings!On the language side, take Elementary Greek...
View ArticleMilestones
Congratulations to my UCLA Classics colleagues, Lorenzo Garcia and Chris Eckerman, who were hooded a couple of weeks ago.I would’ve been there with you, but I had to go to a conference. But I was there...
View ArticleDis manibus
With condolences to their families and friends, I pass along notice (via LINGUISTList 18.2306) of the passing of Profs. Carol Justus and Winfred Lehmann, emeritus, of the University of Texas at Austin....
View ArticleCongratulor et gratias
Heartfelt to Classicist Ralph Hexter, President of Hampshire College, and Mr. Manfred Kollmeier, as well as to their family, on recently doing something they “could only do in Massachusetts” (Scott...
View ArticleGreek and Latin enrollments
... are up at institutions of higher learning in the last four years, according to the Modern Language Association’s recent survey [PDFs]:Fall 1998, 2002 and 2006 Language Enrollments at U.S....
View ArticleO lingua Latina
One of my Latin 1 students showed me Harry Mount’s OpEd in the New York Times before class today, and I was gratified by the attention to the subject in the popular press, as well as my student’s...
View ArticleLe sauvage noble à Chicago
’Tis the season to be ... preparing for the annual meeting. Members will have gotten the final program (a PDF is on line; cf. electronic abstracts) in the mail today, and, as Danno notes, the AIA’s...
View ArticlePost reditum etiam scribenda
A report on my experience of the APA’s annual meeting in Chicago is in preparation. Alibi:Day 0: Thursday, 3 January“APA Pre-game” and “APA: Opening Salvo”, WM BlathersDay 1: Friday, 4 January“AIA/APA...
View ArticleAPA 139, Chicago, Day 0
Thursday, 3 January 2008. Check in. I was pleasantly surprised to be greeted by Prof. Helma Dik, a Classical linguist at UChicago. Of course, I was but a database entry to her, but I wasn’t expecting...
View ArticleOn the Archimedes Palimpsest
Available on line is a stream [slides + audio] of a recent UCSC Physics colloquium given by Uwe Bergmann (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), titled “Secrets...
View ArticleAPA 2009 (Philadelphia): SSGLLL Call for Papers
We were just in Chicago, but we must now think of Philadelphia:GREEK AND LATIN LINGUISTICSSponsored by The Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics; Jeremy Rau, Harvard...
View ArticleEuripides’ Helen
My friend and colleague Mary-Kay Gamel has written Helen of Egypt, an adaptation of Euripides’ Helen for the modern stage. It runs Friday–Sunday, 29 February–2 March, and Thursday–Sunday, 6–9 March....
View ArticleGolden Line in Prose
Or, “when a student of linguistic structures in poetry reads prose”. So, I’m teaching letters of Cicero and Pliny the Younger this quarter, and I was struck by the final sentence of Pliny 1.6.3:I’m not...
View ArticleTutela valui
Enthusiasts and professionals of the Latin language, as well as politicos and journalists, are abuzz about a piece of verbal art on the person of Ms. Ashley Dupre, the meretrix of former Governor of...
View ArticleAlma mater
The Classics and Archaeology Department at Loyola Marymount held its 2nd Annual Classics and Archaeology Symposium and published video + audio recordings on iTunesU. Among the faculty and undergraduate...
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