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Dickinson College Commentaries: digital commentaries on classical texts. Chris Francese, project director, tweeting.
I’ll be reading Plutarch’s “The Bravery of Women” with our senior sem this fall. Not really funny work, I’d say. But he does ask the question: is virtue the same for men and women?
Why read Plutarch? He's funny. He's insightful. He's invites the reader to think about the meaning of history, morality, and human relationships. Oh yeah, he's still funny. He may not be Herodotus, but his wit, charm, and humor serves a purpose.
Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past - Google DeepMind “Aeneas restores damaged inscriptions with a Top-20 accuracy of 73% in gaps of up to ten characters. This only decreases to 58% when the restoration length is unknown” deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
Trying to get hold a copy of every Latin text by Petrarch. Fun project, still a long way to go.
Liberal education. An excellent product with the worst imaginable branding at the moment.
“It’s so hard to get authentic liberal education in today’s academy, because even when it wins, it loses.” We spoke to @jennfrey about the decision to gut the Honors College at the University of Tulsa. Full episode linked below.
Therapy was invented and perfected by an Athenian named Antiphon in the 5th century BC, but he decided it was cringe.
Yet another pocket edition, Winbolt's selections from the Iliad, with English translations, made just before the advent of the Loeb series. I haven't used this one much but will keep in pocket presently and see what happens.
Latin scansion basics, with video: dcc.dickinson.edu/ovid-amores/sc…
This is amazing. I'm learning to accept that I fundamentally just don't care about that much battles, diplomatic treaties etc. But if I can read about birth rates or why people started drinking coffee or whatever I'm transfixed
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I am a poet, and I believe in rhyming, Like any mountaineer believes in climbing.
Our video introductions to Latin scansion were down for a while but are now back up. Thanks @showmeapp for rectifying the issue! dcc.dickinson.edu/ovid-amores/sc…
The data is readily available at the TLG. I think the most important issue is: how many principal parts are really needed? My thoughts: blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2012/12/07…
It's an illusion of cleanless that I dislike. At least the oddities are attested. In theory – and the next generation of grammars should do this – we can quantify the forms in a paradigma from the 5 most verbs in their respective category.
The antidote to a college that encourages left-wing soap-boxing on the part of faculty is not a college that encourages right-wing soap-boxing. It’s a college whose faculty has enough respect for students and their learning to allow them to come to their own conclusions.
A locked account: "Universities are very left. But most of what they do is not leftist propaganda. When conservatives look at them, that’s all they see, because they only think of universities as means to reproduce political beliefs. This tells you why they can’t make their own."
Oh, I didn't know you had the whole thing digitized. Those are much nicer looking tables.