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Over a century ago, James Loeb announced the founding of the Loeb Classical Library and his intention to bring the written treasures of the ancient Greek and Roman world “within the reach of all who...
View ArticlePaper Machines | Visualize Your Zotero Collections
Lampros Polkas's insight:Paper Machines is a plugin for the Zotero bibliographic management software that makes cutting-edge topic-modeling analysis in Computer Science accessible to humanities...
View ArticleΕνθουσιασμός από την Ιλιάδα στη Μαδρίτη
Παρακολουθήσαμε τις παραστάσεις που δόθηκαν στην Ισπανία από την ομάδα του Στάθη Λιβαθινού.Lampros Polkas's insight:O ενθουσιασμός του κοινού στο τέλος των τριών παραστάσεων που έδωσε η Ιλιάδα του...
View ArticleDefining the Humanities: Democracy
Josiah Ober, a professor of classics and of political science, discusses how a reexamination of democracy's ancient origins sheds light on the values and limitations of democracy in contemporary...See...
View ArticleSyrian Women Displaced By War Make Tragedy Of 'Antigone' Their Own
Sophocles' ancient Greek play chronicled a princess' plight after a horrible civil war 2,000 years ago. Syrian refugee women in Beirut are incorporating their lives into a new production of the...
View ArticleOvid's Metamorphoses » Graphic Novelisation of the Metamorphoses - Updates...
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View ArticleΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΟΙ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ 2015
Οι «Αρχαιολογικοί Διάλογοι» είναι ένας νέος θεσμός, ένας διαρκής κριτικός και αναστοχαστικός διάλογος για τις αρχαιότητες και την αρχαιολογία στη σημερινή κοινωνία. Η βασική του μορφή είναι ένα ετήσιο,...
View ArticleDAY OF DH 2015 – Day of Digital Humanities 2015
A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) is an open community publication project that will bring together scholars interested in the digital humanities from around the world to document...
View ArticleGreek and Latin texts in digital form - The Digital Classicist Wiki
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Interdisciplinary and international research network working on how Classical Antiquity has been represented and visualized in the post-Antique and the modern world.See it on Scoop.it, via philologia
View ArticleClassics for the people – why we should all learn from the ancient Greeks
The dazzling thought-world of the Greeks gave us our ideas of democracy and happiness. Yet learning classics tends to be restricted to the privileged few. It’s time for ‘elitist dinosaurs’ to embrace...
View ArticleHere are a bunch of guys dressed as Spartans riding the London Tube
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View ArticleSunoikisis DC
Lampros Polkas's insight:Consortium of Classics programs developed by the Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. The goal is to extend Sunoikisis to a global audience and contribute to it with an...
View ArticleCVA - Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum ('Corpus of Ancient Vases') is the oldest research project of the Union Académique Internationale.See it on Scoop.it, via philologia
View ArticleSyrian refugees find catharsis on ancient Greek play | Middle East |...
Syrian refugee women in Lebanon are performing a modern version of Antigone by Sophocles to reflect their own contemporary traumasSee it on Scoop.it, via philologia
View Article“It is like something out of Antigone [who was forbidden to bury the body of...
Turkey goes to the polls on Sunday in a parliamentary election that threatens to increase polarisation in a country that is already deeply divided. At stake is the extent to which President Recep...
View ArticleLooking inside ancient Greek texts with visualization tools
Since I won't have time to talk about this in detail during my ten minute bit for our Future of Classics discussions, I thought that the blog might be the appropriate forum to pre-emptively...
View ArticlePerseids | A Collaborative Editing Platform for Source Documents in Classics
The Perseids platform allows students and scholars to collaborate on digital editions and annotations in an integrated online environment. After successfully completing a first phase of development,...
View ArticleAWOL - The Ancient World Online: Open Access Ancient Language Textbooks and...
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View ArticleDigital Athenaeus
A digital edition of the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of NaucratisSee it on Scoop.it, via philologia
View ArticleDante turns in his grave as language declines
Believe it or not, the land where Latin originated and from which many other European languages descend is becoming "illiterate." Not only have Italians long forgotten the language of their Roman...
View ArticleTeaching Latin in the 21st century
We are in the age of the science, technology, engineering and maths. But is liberal arts education an expensive luxury in the 21st century? Many professionals believe liberal education prepares...
View ArticleA Don’s Life: Greece versus Rome
This evening I did a gig with Boris Johnson at Intelligence Squared: a cultural combat of ancient Greece versus ancient Rome. It was partly an event in benefit of "Classics for All", the charity that...
View ArticleCompanion to "The Worlds of Roman Women"
Lampros Polkas's insight:Α compendium of un-adapted Latin texts, glossed and hyperlinked, by or about Roman women from all ranks and status groups, together with abundant illustrative images from the...
View ArticleLyric Mapping Project | Department of Classics
Mapping Greek Lyric: Places, Travel, Geographical Imaginary, created by David Driscoll, Israel McMullin, and Stephen Sansom, headed by Anastasia-Erasmia PeponiSee it on Scoop.it, via philologia
View ArticleWomen in ancient Greece and Rome with surviving works or fragments
GREEK AUTHORS • PHILOSOPHY Aesara of Lucania: “Only a fragment survives of Aesara of Lucania’s Book on Human Nature, but it provides a key to understanding the philosophies of Phintys, PerictioneSee...
View ArticleRowman and Littlefield | Homeric Megathemes: War-Homilia-Homecoming
ReaLampros Polkas's insight:The international impact of Maronitis’ work, which combines German-style philology with a Greek-style literary sensibility, can be most fully realized in the present...
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