I just received an e-mail from iTunes U about several of their Classics audio/video offerings — for free download. News is already circulating; I have also mentioned the iTunes U’s offering for Vergil’s Aeneid. Here is what is mentioned in the e-mail:
Physics by Aristotle — USF
Penn State’s Lectures/Panel discussions
Fundamental Greek Grammar — Concordia Seminary
Classics audio [...]
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Posted in blog, news on June 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Things have been almost non-existent, it seems, for me with blogging. I’ve been occupying most of my time preparing for a double load of Latin in the fall. I will be taking not only a course on Senecan Tragedy, focusing primarily on the tragedies of Thyestes and Medea, but also a course on Catullus. Basically, I have over [...]
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Posted in discoveries, news on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Here is a link to a short video interview with Daniel Wallace about New Testament manuscript discoveries in Albania. For more information, visit the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts.
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Posted in Greek, literature, news on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
After a hiatus for several months the Greek Font Society has returned (actually, they simply changed from .org to .gr). If you are not familiar with their work, read the about page. I’ll let you read about it there. I’ll mention briefly that they have reproduced and made available some fantastic typefaces [...]
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This has been in the news for a few weeks now — an amulet containing the Shema, from Deuteronomy 6:4, was discovered in Austria. It dates from about the third century of our era. “This amulet shows that people of Jewish faith lived in what is today Austria since the Roman Empire.” [...]
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Posted in archaeology, news on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
News has been circulating that the House of Augustus once again opens to the public. It’s fascinating to see art and design from this period (ca. 30 BCE) with the rich colors of red and yellow (and more) in the second Pompeian style. Read more of it at BBC News: House [...]
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Posted in news on February 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This weekend, Feb. 22-23, the Classics Dept. of Florida State University is hosting the 2008 Langford Conference. This year’s topic is Health and Sickness in Ancient Rome. For more details of the schedules and lectures, visit the FSU Classics page.
Organizer: Prof. Miriam Griffin (Langford Eminent Scholar FSU and Emeritus Fellow in Ancient History, [...]
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Posted in news on December 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I finished my first semester at FSU. I received all A’s in my courses. Now if I can maintain that tract… While on break, since I did not take the first semester of Greek I (Attic), I’m preparing for Greek II, intending to jump in at that point. There is a [...]
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Posted in biblical, news on December 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Some items have been circulating around, so I’ll mention them here:
Free online course available, full with transcripts, lectures (mp3, video), and syllabus, from Yale: Introduction to the OT (Hebrew Bible).
The Harvard Papyri Collection is now giving public access to several, if not most or all, papyrus texts of the collection. Sample: text of Romans [...]
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Posted in news on October 28, 2007 | No Comments »
A new site Free Rice, started this month, gives vocabulary quizzes for people who want to donate rice for the poor. Its banner states, “For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger.” This morning, while eating breakfast, I donated [...]
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