News
Drs Buckley and König win SELF bid
Thursday 03 May 2012
Drs Emma Buckley and Alice König have secured SELF funding for a three-year research project, which will assess the linguistic strengths and weaknesses of Latin students from different educational backgrounds. This project will have important implications for the teaching of Latin and Greek in other Classics departments at other (particularly Scottish) Universities, where the mix of school-level qualifications is often more pronounced than south of the border.
Distinguished visiting scholar
Friday 20 April 2012
Professor Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer of the University of Chicago will be visiting the University of St Andrews in the last week of semester 2, as the latest visitor in the annual Distinguished Visiting Scholar scheme in the School of Classics.
She will give two papers, the first entitled "Socrates and Sexuality in Persius' Fourth Satire" on Wednesday 2 May (4 p.m., Swallowgate 11--all welcome), and the second entitled "The Pleasure of the Trope: Pagan and Christian Authors on the Ethics of Metaphor" on Friday 4 May, as part of a one-day workshop on "Metaphor in Greek and Roman Literature and Culture".
Visiting Scholar at Yale University
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Emma Buckley spent two weeks in April as a visiting scholar at Yale University, as part of the St-Andrews Yale Classics Exchange. While there, she spoke at the 'Marginality, Canonicity, Passion' conference, delivered papers on Valerius Flaccus and Christopher Marlowe's translation of Lucan, and led graduate seminars on post-Virgilian epic and Senecan tragedy.
Ancient and Modern Olympics
Tuesday 17 April 2012
Dr Jason König has launched a new blog, 'Ancient and Modern Olympics':
http://ancientandmodernolympics.wordpress.com.
It will run for the next 6 months or so, over the period of the London Olympics, with weekly updates. It offers among other things translations of texts related to the ancient Olympics festival and ancient Greek athletics generally, with a particular focus on texts which have something to tell us about the connections and the gaps between ancient and modern sport.
Alice Koenig wins Leverhulme Research Fellowship
Thursday 12 April 2012
The School is delighted to announce the award of a two-year Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust to Alice Koenig for work on her project 'Frontinus' "Technical" Treatises in close-up and in context'.
Rome. An Empire's Story
Wednesday 11 April 2012
Greg Woolf's new book, Rome. An Empire's Story, will be published by Oxford University Press in May 2012 (UK) and in June 2012 (US). For further information, please visit:
Imperial Rome AD 284 to 363
Saturday 31 March 2012
Jill Harries' new book, Imperial Rome AD 284 to 363: The New Empire was published in March 2012 by Edinburgh University Press. The volume is part of the series 'The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome'. For further information please visit: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748620524
Classical Greek: a New Grammar
Thursday 22 March 2012
Juan Coderch's new book Classical Greek: A New Grammar: Greek grammar taught and explained, with examples was published in March 2012. It is aimed at both absolute beginners and more advanced students who need to revise and enhance their existing knowledge of the language. For further details please visit http://www.amazon.com/Classical-Greek-Grammar-explained-examples/dp/0957138709
Radio 4: 'In Our Time'
Tuesday 20 March 2012
Alice König took part in the popular Radio 4 history of ideas programme, 'In our Time', presented by Melvyn Bragg, on 15 March. The topic was Vitruvius' De Architectura and the programme is available on the BBC 'In our Time' website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iot
Latin Panegyric
Thursday 15 March 2012
Roger Rees edited Latin Panegyric, published in March 2012 by Oxford University Press. The volume is part of the series 'Oxford Readings in Classical Studies'. For further information, plesae visit: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199576715.do
Greek Poetics
Monday 20 February 2012
Stephen Halliwell’s new book, Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus, will be published by Oxford University Press on March 1st (though with a printed date of 2011). For further information see: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199570560.do