 April 29th-Dr. Tom Phillips from the Classics Department of the University of Manchester will talk on Apollonius Rhodius: Book your seats Now! Usual venue and times:More details to follow.
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Our first Classical Association talk of 2019-20 is on Wednesday 6 November:
E. J. Graham (Open University) will speak on 'Heads, shoulders, knees, and toes: anatomical votives in Roman Italy' This talk will be held in the Diamond, Workroom 1 at 4.15pm. Directions to the Diamond can be found here (Workroom 1 is on the ground floor): https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ssid/maps/diamond **Reminder: we will be collecting membership subscriptions for 2019-20 at this event! Other upcoming events of interest include:20 November, 4:15pm (Jessop Building 117): Chris Giamakis (Arch PhD student), 'Status reflected through weapons: the case of Archaic Greece' (along with a talk from a PhD student from History) 11 December, 4:15pm (Jessop Building 117): Maik Patzelt (Hist), 'Inheritance Hunting in Late Antiquity – Another View into the Social Reality of the Roman Elite Richard Porson, Professor of Greek, with a difference! READ MORE by clicking the picture:  . . .
We're near to the beginning of another academic year. So I thought I'd celebrate new beginnings and successful achievements by directing you towards this wonderful poem: nothing better than a dictionary, especially when its full of Greek. The work goes on . . .  Click the graphic to READ MORE. It's a very good poem.
Peter Hulse  .If you weren't at the Classical Association lecture on Wednesday (and a lot of people were) you missed a treat. I've been going to Hadrian's Wall since just after the Romans left, with parties of school age adolescents, so I thought I knew a reasonable amount about the place. However, in the presence of a true expert, Professor Ian Haynes of the University of Newcastle University, it was best to pay attention, listen and find out how much is still being discovered on an almost daily basis. Our lecturer did a really clever thing (actually he did quite a few) and started his survey from the Western end of the Wall, which doesn't get so many visitors, at Maryport. He then made a fascinating progress along the Wall, stopping off at Birdoswald, via Corbridge (Corstopitum!) and finally arriving in Newcastle at the end end of a fascinating hour. If you want to learn more you've not missed the boat, as you will see if you click on the picture at the top of this post. Maybe more to follow.
Peter Hulse Classical Association AGM
Wednesday 8 May 2019 3:15pm Humanities Research Institute, Seminar Room Classical Association Invited Speakers Wednesday 13 March 2019 4:15pm, Humanities Research Institute Owen Hodkinson (Leeds) – “She’s not deadly. She’s beautiful.” Reclaiming Medusa for Millennial Tween and Teen Girls? Wednesday 8 May 2019 4:15pm, Humanities Research Institute Ian Haynes (Newcastle): Recent research on Hadrian’s Wall Medieval and Ancient Research Seminars Humanities Research Institute 4:15pm paper begins 27 February 2019 A CHANGE OF PLAN: Jane Rempel (Archaeology) will talk about A view to the sea: Monumental burial traditions and elite display in the southern Black Sea region during the late Classical and early Hellenistic period 27 March 2019 – PGR Session Sarah Poniros (Arch) – ‘Experiencing Migration and Diversity in Roman Britain: A Multidisciplinary Approach’ Lewis Dagnall (Hist) – ‘Tribute in Late Antiquity’ Peter Hulse  1,870 years ago, Marcus Cornelius Fronto wrote the following letter (Fronto 5.45) to Marcus Aurelius, then heir apparent to the throne of the Roman Empire:
.Domino meo. Annum novum faustum tibi et ad omnia, quae recte cupis, prosperum cum tibi tum Domino nostro patri tuo et matri et uxori et filiae ceterisque omnibus, quos merito diligis, precor. Metui ego invalido adhuc corpore turbae et impressioni me committere. Si dei iuvabunt, perendie vos vota nuncupantes videbo. Vale mi Domine dulcissime. Dominam saluta. In the translation of C. R. Haines: To my Lord. A happy New Year and a prosperous in all things that you rightly desire to you and our Lord your Father, and your mother and your wife and daughter, and to all others who deservedly share your affection—that is my prayer!In my still feeble state of health I was afraid to trust myself to the crowd and crush. I shall see you, please God, the day after to-morrow offering up your vows.Farewell, my most sweet Lord. Greet my Lady. A happy New Year and a prosperous 2019 in all things that you rightly desire – to all of you! Very much the copyright of The Petrified Muse to whom many thanks. Peter Hulse
Merry Christmas to all readers! This is the man who taught me Latin and Greek at school, reading the Latin poems that he wrote at a Summer school in Sicily. Studying Classical languages keeps you young! You can learn more about the Summer School here.
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