Roman Error: The Reception of Ancient Rome as a Flawed Model

Posted on: May 18th, 2013

A Conference at the University of Michigan
September 20th–21st, 2013
Angell Hall 3222

The idea of large-scale Roman missteps—whether imperial domination, sexual immorality, political corruption, greed, religious intolerance, cultural insensitivity, or the like—has been a notion "good to think with" since antiquity, and persists in familiar comparisons between the Roman Empire and the present-day United States. This conference seeks to go beyond a merely thematic discussion to re-examine the connections between "Roman error," broadly conceived, and basic features of the reception of antiquity including: misunderstanding and misprision, repetition and difference, the subject’s relation to a (remembered or unconscious) past, performance and illusion, and links between text and image. If the Romans "erred," what are the consequences for Rome’s inheritors as they attempt to construct a stable relation to Rome as a flawed "source" or model? We ask not simply, "Are Rome’s errors ours?" but, "How does Roman error figure in the reception of Rome itself?"

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The Isles of Greece! 2014: The Southern Cyclades

Posted on: April 25th, 2013

The University of South Dakota will offer an interdisciplinary sailing and study tour in Greece for undergraduate and graduate students in May and June of 2014. This program, now in its ninth year, introduces students to a variety of aspects of life in the Aegean Sea over the five millennia from the Bronze Age to our own time. Although the program includes several days in and around Athens, most of the time is based on sailing yachts. The nautical life will give students a sense of the Greek islands as the Greeks saw them in an age before mechanized travel: from the sea in sailing vessels. Students will learn to sail and to live aboard a sailboat. For further information and application instructions visit http://www.usd.edu/~clehmann/ or send an e-mail to Clayton Lehmann at clehmann@usd.edu.

Intensive Latin reading summer 2013

Posted on: March 22nd, 2013

Do you want to read later faster, with ease and more enjoyment? Try this summer workshop, whose participants are immersed all day, each day of the workshop, in the intensive, but careful reading of a masterwork of Latin literature. The Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop is intended for teachers of Latin, as a way to refresh the mind through study of an extended Latin text, and to share experiences and ideas with Latinists and teachers. The Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop is intended for teachers of Latin, as a way to refresh the mind through study of an extended Latin text, and to share experiences and ideas with Latinists and teachers. In 2013 participants will read Ovid’s Fasti, Book 4, which is devoted to the month of April.

For details, see: http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/classical-studies/content/Teacher-Workshops/

Latin immersion experiences for summer 2013

Posted on: March 22nd, 2013

Either or both of these week long seminars will be an invaluable experience for students and teachers of Classics, or other field in which a strong knowledge of Latin is important. In fact, any lover of Latin, who meets the minimum criteria described below, is encouraged to apply.

Conventiculum Dickinsoniense:
 July 5-11, 2013

http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/classical-studies/content/Teacher-Workshops/

Conventiculum Dickinsoniense:
 July 5-11, 2013

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Summer 2013 Intensive Greek & Latin Programs at UA

Posted on: March 13th, 2013

The Department of Classics at the University of Arizona will offer its usual Summer Intensive Language Programs in Greek and Latin this summer. For more information please visit: http://classics.arizona.edu/node/351

St. Catherine University Summer Latin Institute

Posted on: March 10th, 2013

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AQUILA THEATRE’S NEW YORK PRODUCTION of HERAKLES
GROUP RATES FOR PARTIES OF 10 OR MORE & VETERANS - $20 (50% off!)

Posted on: February 27th, 2013

Contact BAM for Individual or Group Tickets today!

Individual Ticketing: BAM Ticketing Services (718) 636-4100 (10am-6pm M-F/12-6pm Sat)
Group Ticketing: BAM Group Sales (718) 623-7885 (M-F 12pm-6pm).
Tickets Online at http://www.bam.org/herakles

Contact NICOLE ZOLAD at nicole@aquilatheatre.com or call (914) 232-1850 with questions and enquiries.

March 27- 30
Wed 7:30pm, Thurs 7:30pm, Friday 7:30pm, Saturday 7:30pm
Approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes with no intermission.

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Summer Latin Course

Posted on: February 16th, 2013

We invite you to our Summer Latin Course. The classes provide for a total immersion in the Latin language. They are divided into two fundamental courses and a third course which is for teachers and which is contingent on enrollment:

1. Latin I (from the first week to the fourth; 15 ECTS): dedicated to those who have no or hardly any previous knowledge of the Latin language. Students will learn morphology, syntax, and vocabulary (1,800 of the most frequent words), and will begin reading genuine Latin texts (the Gospels, Catullus, Martial, Phaedrus, Caesar). Duration: 156 hours.

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Conventiculum Bostoniense

Posted on: February 13th, 2013

The Conventiculum Bostoniense (http://conventiculum.org/) is a week-long immersion in the Latin language that will include speaking, reading, writing, and performance, and takes place this summer from July 27th to August 4th on the UMass Dartmouth campus, near the beautiful beaches of Southern Massachusetts, and historic New Bedford. Participants earn graduate credits by taking one of two courses, both of which focus on engagement with texts from all periods of Latinity, and the active teaching of Latin. Outside of classes, our participants engage with a staff that includes six experienced Latin speakers, ensuring a high speaker-student ratio. For more information, please visit our website: conventiculum.org, and be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter. You can also contact the directors: Peter Barrios-Lech (peter.lech@umb.edu) or James Dobreff (james.dobreff@umb.edu).

Pasts, Presents, and Futures of the Historia Augusta

A panel proposed for the 2014 APA Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL

Posted on: February 11th, 2013

Co-Organizers: Mary T. Boatwright (Duke University) and Kathryn Langenfeld (Duke University)

As interest in the later Roman Principate and early Dominate grows and results in ever more historical, literary, cultural, and art historical studies, scholars increasingly turn to the Historia Augusta. Although notorious for its puzzles and self-contradictions, this is our most extensive historical source reporting information about the second and third centuries CE. Furthermore, its purported Diocletianic/Constantinian date, and the authoritative (though not universally accepted) claim that this collection of imperial biographies was actually written at the end of the fourth century CE, encourages use of the Historia Augusta by those examining the later Roman empire and late antique Rome. But the complexity of this source means it cannot simply be mined for data convenient for any particular argument, albeit presented with caveats. More importantly, our deepening understanding of the rich culture and history of the second through fourth centuries CE enables new and beneficial inquiry into all aspects of the Historia Augusta.

We solicit papers examining historiographical and historical issues in the HA. The work’s recurrent citation of earlier Latin and Greek historians prompts historiographical questions, such as: How does this purportedly multi-authored, perhaps anonymous collection dialogue with the stress on authorial authority found in earlier historical writings? How does the work’s literary method or content relate to that of 4th-c. authors (e.g. Ammianus Marcellinus, Jerome, Aurelius Victor, and Festus)?

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New APA Pedagogy Awards

The APA announces new Pedagogy awards. For more information please visit http://apaclassics.org/index.php/apa_blog/apa_blog_entry/4021/

Vergilian Society Tours

The Vergilian Society is once again offering four wonderful summer tours. For more information please visit http://www.vergil.clarku.edu/cumae.htm.

MEDITERRANEAN SOCIETY OF AMERICA ANNOUNCES A TOUR OF SARDINIA IN MAY 2013

The Mediterranean Society has organized a tour of Sardinia in 2013 (May 13-26). Sardinia is a remarkably complex and ancient island, influenced by many invading cultures but remaining fiercely independent. The island is renowned for the scenic beauty of its coasts and mountains and its rich history, hospitable people, and delicious cuisine. The participants will visit Nuraghic, Phoenician, Carthaginian, and Roman archaeological sites on the island and explore the historic centers of its cities. Highlights of the trip include the Monte d'Accoddi Neolithic complex; the Nuraghic sites of Su Nuraxi, Santu Antine, and Losa; the Phoenician-Roman towns of Nora and Tharros; the Roman Temple of Antas; the National Archaeological Museum in Cagliari and the Sanna National Museum at Sassari; and the cities of Cagliari, Oristano, Alghero, and Sassari. The participants will spend four nights in Cagliari, three nights in Oristano, four nights in Alghero, and one night in Rome.

For a copy of the trip brochure, please contact Nancy Saylor at nssaylor@verizon.net. The Society also posts the trip brochure on its website (www.mediterranean-society.org).