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VOLUME/TOME 5, NUMBER/NUMERO 7, 1999 03 15
Published by e-mail by the Classical Association of Canada/
Publie par courrier electronique par la
societe canadienne des etudes classiques
President: J.I. McDougall, University of Winnipeg
IAIN.MCDOUGALL@UWINNIPEG.CA
Secretary/Secretaire: I.M. Cohen, Mount Allison University
ICOHEN@MTA.CA
Treasurer/Tresorier: C. Cooper, University of Winnipeg
CRAIG.COOPER@UWINNIPEG.CA
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K.H. Kinzl, Trent University
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CONTENTS:
[1] Association announcements
[2] [2.1] Job openings
[2.2] Summer 1999: courses etc.
[3] Lectures, seminars, panels
[4] Conferences
[5] Calls for papers
[6] Varia
[8] Book length publications by members
[8] W3 sites noted, vel sim.
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[1] ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCEMENTS, etc.
Congre\s Annuel /Annual Meeting, Universite\ Laval, 1999 05 27-29
The preliminary programme can be found at:
http://www.trentu.ca/cac/99/programme-99.html
Reminder: The deadline for registration is 1999 03 31.
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[2]
[2.1] JOB OPENINGS
For Canadian job announcements see the special releases of CCB / BCEA,
http://ivory.trentu.ca/www/cl/cac/ccb5/ccb-5.html
For US jobs see the listings of the American Philological Association:
http://www.apaclassics.org/scripts/APA/Administration/Placement/jobs09-99.html
US jobs and some others are usually also posted to the Classics-l and
Classics-m lists, and UK jobs to the Classicists list (the latter usually
forwarded by my to Classics-Canada).
I am not aware of electronic postings of jobs where the language of
instruction is not English (if anyone knows, please inform me), except for
this list of positions in France:
http://argentoratum.u-strasbg.fr/SOinfor.html
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University of Toronto
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS
97 St. George St., Toronto, Canada M5S 2E8
416-978-5513; fax 416-978-7307
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/classics/
The University of Toronto invites applications for two Contractually
Limited Term Appointments for one year beginning July 1, 1999. Ph.D.
should be completed. A preference will be given to applicants with a
successful record of teaching classical civilization courses but others may
also apply. Salary commensurate with experience. Teaching will be
principally in classical civilization courses.
A curriculum vitae and letters from three referees should be sent to
Professor E. Robbins, Department of Classics, University of Toronto, 97 St
George Street. Toronto M5S 2E8 by May 14, 1999.
In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements this advertisement is
directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. In
accordance with its Employment Equity Policy the University of Toronto
encourages applications from qualified women or men, members of visible
minorities, aboriginal peoples, and persons with disabilities.
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CANADIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE IN ATHENS
We are looking at new arrangements for the Directorship of the Athens
office, of CAIA for 1999 20001 or 1999-20002. Funds are extremely limited,
and we are most open to various models. One possibility would be for an
established Canadian scholar already living in Greece to take on the
Directorship half- time basically as a volunteer (possibly with a small
honorarium). Another would be for a junior Canadian scholar (post-doctoral
or almost) to be Acting Director two-thirds time, receiving a small stipend
(of the order of $15,000CAN) and a room in the hostel, co-operating with a
senior Director based in Canada (who would be found at least one round-trip
air ticket to Athens each year). The amount of office support in each case
will need careful arrangement.
Enquiries should be made to S. Campbell, 59 Queen's Park, Toronto M5S
2C4, or to mwallace@chass.utoronto.ca. The deadline for submissions to the
Ad Hoc Committee is March 31; the Committee should communicate their
opinion to the Board soon thereafter.
L'INSTITUT ARCHEOLOGIQUE CANADIEN D'ATHENES
Nous essayons presentement d'etablir de nouveaux criteres pour le
directorat du bureau d'Athenes de "CAIA" pour les annees 1999-20001 ou
1999-2002. Les fonds sont extremement limites, et nous accepterons
plusieurs modeles differents. Une possibilite serait qu'un savant canadien
qui demeure en Grece actuellement, prenne la responsabilite de Directeur
benevolement a temps partiel (peut-etre avec des petits honoraires). Un
autre possibilite serait qu'un jeune savant canadien (post-doctoral ou
presque) soit le Directeur suppleant le deux tiers du temps, recevant un
petit traitement (pres de CAD 15,000) et une chambre dans l'auberge, en
cooperation avec un Directeur superieur au Canada (qui recevrait au moins
un billet aller/retour a Athenes chaque annee). Le montant de soutien de
bureau dans chaque circonstances necessitera une organisation soignee.
Toutes enquetes devraient etre adressees a S. Campbell, 59 Queen's Park,
Toronto, M5S 2C4, ou a mwallace@chass.utoronto.ca. La date limite pour les
soumissions au comite ad hoc est le 31er mars; le comite devrait
transmettre leurs opinions au conseil d'administration peu apres.
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[2.2] SUMMER 1999
ANNOUNCEMENT
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THE SUMMER WORKSHOP ON THE ORIGINS OF THE ALPHABET.
The Center for Mediterranean Civilizations
Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities
Tel Aviv University, Israel
11th - 22nd July 1999
We are pleased to announce a workshop on THE ORIGINS OF THE
ALPHABET. The workshop will concentrate on the following:
(a) The 'invention' of the alphabet and the epigraphic situation
in the Eastern Mediterranean at the close of the second millennium B.C.E.
and the beginning of the first.
(b) The problem of the transmission of the West Semitic script to
ancient Greece.
While naturally concentrating on Semitic and Greek alphabetic
writing, the programme of the workshop will also include introductory
lectures on cuneiform writing, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Hieroglyphic Luwian,
and Aegean scripts. Excursions to archaeological sites of related interest
are also planned.
Among the scholars who will lead the workshop are Aaron Demsky (Bar
Ilan University), a leading specialist in Hebrew and Semitic Epigraphy;
Orly Goldwasser (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), author of From Icon
to Metaphor (1995); Alan Johnston (University College London), co-editor,
since 1990, of L. H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece; Barry
Powell (University of Wisconsin-Madison), author of Homer and the Origin of
the Greek Alphabet (1991); Alexander Uchitel (The University of Haifa), a
leading specialist in Bronze Age archives; Roger D. Woodard, University of
Southern California, author of Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer (1997).
The workshop should be of interest to graduate students and
postdoctorate fellows in Aegean and Near Eastern archaeology, Classics,
Ancient and Near Eastern history, and related disciplines.
Registration fee: 200$.
Accommodation: single rooms are available in apartments with shared
bathroom and cooking facilities (420$ for a minimum of twelve days; this
can be extended at the cost of 35$ per day).
Lunch is available at the University at a cost of 65$ for the
duration of the workshop.
TEN SCHOLARSHIPS (1000 US$ each) ARE AVAILABLE FOR OVERSEAS
PARTICIPANTS. Kindly send CV and one letter of recommendation.
For further information and plan please contact
Professor Margalit Finkelberg E-mail: finkelbe@post.tau.ac.il
Department of Classics
Faculty of Humanities
Tel Aviv University, P.O.B. 39040
Ramat Aviv, 69978 Tel Aviv
Israel
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[3] LECTURES, SEMINARS, PANELS
Jennifer Moore
Department of Classics, McMaster University
"BAKE, BLISTER, & BURN: Industry and Economy at a Roman Kiln
site in Tunisia"
Wednesday March 31, 1999 at 8:00 p.m.
Camelford Hall (room 226), Divinity College
McMaster University.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be preceded by our
second Annual Banquet, which will be held from 5:30-7:30 in the Skylight
room of the Commons building on the Mac campus. Tickets for the banquet
cost $25 ($20 for students), and can be obtained by contacting us by
Friday March 26. For further information contact:
Dr. Michele George, Dr. Gretchen Umholtz
(905) 525-9140 x23452 (905) 525-9140 x24577
georgem@mcmaster.ca umholtz@mcmaster.ca
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Inaugural Moses I. Finley Lecture
The Program in Classics of Syracuse University is pleased to
announce a lecture series honoring the memory of Moses I. Finley. Finley,
one of the most influential historians of this century, enjoyed a long and
distinguished career as a professor of ancient history and master of
Darwin College at Cambridge University. He was a 1927 graduate of
Syracuse University.
The inaugural Finley Lecture will be given by Josiah Ober, Magie
Professor of Classics at Princeton University, who will speak on the
topic, "How Liberal was Classical Athens? Political Participation and
Personal Liberty in an Ancient Democracy." The lecture, which is free and
open to the public, will be Thursday, March 25, 1999, at 8:00 pm in the
Heroy Auditorium of the Heroy Geology Building at Syracuse University.
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There will be a one-day colloquium on the Ancient Novel on Saturday,
May 8th in Corpus Christi College, Oxford (New Music Room). Programme :
9.45-1.00 : EMORY-OXFORD PANEL : VIEWING THE ANCIENT NOVEL
9.45 R.Bracht Branham (Emory) : 'A Truer Story of the Novel'?
Reply by Ewen Bowie (Oxford); discussion
11.15 Coffee
11.45 Niall Slater (Emory) : 'Spectator and Spectacle in Apuleius'
Reply by Stephen Harrison (Oxford); discussion
1.15 Lunch
2.15-5.45 : CAMBRIDGE PANEL : SEEING, HEARING, READING
THE ANCIENT NOVEL
2.15 Simon Goldhill 'Seeing (and) the boundaries of genre'
Discussion
3.15 Richard Hunter 'Oral fiction and fictional orality'
Discussion
4.15 Tea
4.45 Tim Whitmarsh 'Reading readings in the novel'
Discussion
5.45-6.15 Drinks
Sponsored by Emory University, Atlanta, and Corpus Christi College,
Oxford. Coffee, lunch, tea and drinks provided free of charge; a cold
buffet supper will be available after the end of the colloquium at
the the price of stlg6.00. Those wishing to attend should contact
Stephen Harrison at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, OX1 4JF
(stephen.harrison@ccc.ox.ac.uk) by APRIL 23rd to book a place;
those wishing to stay for supper should also send him a cheque for
stlg6.00, made payable to Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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[4] CONFERENCES:
YORK UNIVERSITY
'Pinning the Tale: Apuleius' Golden Ass in its Cultural Context', a
conference at York University in Toronto, will be held Saturday, April
24, 1999 from 9:30 to 6:00. The speakers and papers are Ewen Bowie,
'"Mea vetus prosapia": Apuleius' Greek Lineage'; Elaine Fantham, 'Venus
and Verismo: Multigeneric Aspects of Venus in the Metamorphoses'; Ellen
Finkelpearl, 'Animals and Underlings: Apuleius and the Life of Aesop';
James Rives, 'Philosophy and Cult in the World of Apuleius'; Gerald
Sandy, 'The Philosophical Education of a Latin Sophist at Athens'. The
conference is timed to coincide with the Canadian Opera Company's
production of 'The Golden Ass', a new opera with libretto by Robertson
Davies and music by Randolph Peters (performances on April 13, 15, 17,
21, 23, and 25); for further information, contact the COC at
416-363-8833. The conference will also include a talk by Richard
Bradshaw, the General Director of the COC, on the topic of the new
opera. Registration for the conference is CA$10.00 or US$7.00; lunch
may also be purchased in advance for CA$15.00 or US$10.00. For further
information and registration contact James Rives (416-736-2100, ext.
70476; jrives@yorku.ca).
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International Conference: The Poetry of Lucan (fwd)
LUCANO E LA POETICA DEL BELLUM CIVILE
International Conference
Florence, March 18, 1999
Sala della Presidenza della Facolta di Lettere, Piazza Brunelleschi 4,
Firenze
Chairman: EMANUELE NARDUCCI
Program
9.00 AM
ELAINE FANTHAM (Princeton):
Expensa superorum et Caesaris ira (Lucano III 439-440): Ira e potere nel De
Bello Civili.
EMANUELE NARDUCCI (Firenze)
Catone e Pompeo nella Pharsalia (e alcune interpretazioni recenti)
MATTHEW LEIGH (Oxford)
Cesare e la selva di Marsiglia: deforestazione e illuminismo
nell'antichita'
Discussione
15.00 PM
PAOLO ESPOSITO (Salerno):
Paradosso ed esemplarita' nell'episodio di Vulteio (B. C. IV, 402-581)
PETER TOOHEY (Armidale - Sidney):
Il corso del tempo in Lucano
RENATO BADAL=CD (Viterbo)
Problemi di critica testuale lucanea
Discussione
E-mail: narducci@dada.it
Home Phone: +39 - 55 - 7398667
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Classical Association (UK), 1999 Meetings
The URL of the CA 99 website is
http://www.liv.ac.uk/Classics/ca99/
Gillian Clark
egclark@liv.ac.uk
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Ancient Greek Iconography Conference
Department of Classics, The University of Reading
16th-18th August 1999
In Honour of Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
Speakers to include:
Ruth Bardel, tba
Susan Blundell, 'Constructing Men and Women: The open...closed
spectrum in Attic paintings'
John-Gabriel Bodard, 'The Paraphernalia of the Witch: Images of Kirke'
Jan Bremmer, 'Hephaestus and the Divine Hierarchy'
Jane Burrough, 'The Iconography of Harpies: Hunters or victims?'
Patricia Easterling, tba
Shelley Hales, 'Greek Iconographies, Hellenistic Ideals'
Sonia Klinger, 'The Deer in Domestic Contexts'
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, 'Veiled or Unveiled: The anakalypsis gesture
in Greek art'
Pantelis Michelakis, 'Achilles in 6th-5th Century Vase Paintings'
Elizabeth Moignard, '"Towers, Pillars or Frames?" Female framing figures'
John Oakley, 'Artistic Initiative: Its place in the study of ancient
Greek iconography'
Robin Osborne, 'Reading Personifications'
Olga Palagia, 'The Arrhephoroi on the Athenian Acropolis'
Gloria Pinney, tba
Ian Rutherford, 'The "Winged Temple" at Delphi'
Nicki Waugh 'Artemis Orthia and her Equine Votives'
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, 'Sappho and other Women Musicians on Vases'
For enquiries write to John-Gabriel Bodard or Jane Burrough,
Iconography Conference, Department of Classics, University of Reading,
PO Box 218, Reading RG6 6AA or email: J.G.Bodard@Reading.ac.uk or
J.E.Burrough@Reading.ac.uk
Any news and information on this conference, including booking form
and programme will be made available on the world-wide web at the
address http://www.rdg.ac.uk/Classics/Iconography/
John-Gabriel Bodard J.G.Bodard@Reading.ac.UK
Reading Classics Department http://www.rdg.ac.uk/Classics/
Reading Greek Iconography Conference, 16-18 August 1999:
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/Classics/Iconography/
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R E M I N D E R
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA MEMBERSHIP:
The bulletin is meant primarily to represent a service
by the CAC to members of the CAC. If you are not at
present a member, you may wish to consider joining. The
regular annual membership (which includes *Phoenix* and
*Classical Views/Echos du monde classique*) is CAD 75
(CAD 45.00 for those earning less than CAD 30,000 per annum);
sustaining CAD 90; life CAD 750; student CAC 30; retired
CAD 45); there are also joint memberships. Contact:
Professor Craig Cooper, Treasurer,
Department of Classics, University of Winnipeg,
515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg MB R3B 2E9,
e-mail craig.cooper@uwinnipeg.ca
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[5] CALLS FOR PAPERS
Call for Papers: Classical Association, Bristol 2000
The Classical Association's annual conference in the year 2000 will be
held at the University of Bristol from Monday 17th April to Thursday
20th April.
The year 2000 offers an opportunity for classicists to look forward as
well as back. To this end, we particularly encourage reflective,
adventurous and innovative proposals. Panels are currently planned on
Millenarianism and fin de sie\cle - then and now
Changing perceptions of historicism
Translations (translatability and cultural assimilation)
Postcolonialism and the classicist
Temporality: chronologies, calendars, and the philosophy of time
Reading image and text together
Proposals for papers (20-25 minutes duration) on these or any aspect of
the Classical world are now invited; proposals from graduate students
and schoolteachers are especially welcomed, as are offers of
co-ordinated panels. Title and abstract (one side of A4) should be sent
to the undersigned not later than 31st August 1999.
Robert L. Fowler
Department of Classics and Ancient History
University of Bristol
11 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB
United Kingdom
Tel.: (0117) 928 8256 (dept. office with answerphone: 928-7764)
Fax: (0117) 928 8678
E-mail: Robert.Fowler@Bristol.ac.uk
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Call for papers
Feminist Theory and Classics III: The Next Generation
University of Southern California
May 18-21, 2000
The third Feminist Theory and Classics conference will be held in
Los Angeles, at the University of Southern California, from May 18-21,
2000. The major goal of this conference will be to address the
generational shift in feminism, and specifically within Classics. In an
effort to create an environment in which feminists of all generations can
speak to one another, the program will feature an all-workshop format
which will bring together presenters with various levels of experience.
The program committee is looking for proposals either for
individual presentations or for workshops. Proposals for presentations
will be grouped by the program committee into workshops. Proposals for
workshops may be submitted either by a group of presenters or by an
individual. In the latter case, the program committee will work with the
proposer to develop a series of additional presenters for the workshop.
All proposals should be no more than one page in length, and
should fall into one of the four following topic areas:
1) THEORY. Presenters in this category might address recent developments
in feminist theory, how these have or have not been taken up in Classics,
the relationship between feminist theory and other theoretical discourses
(e.g., gender studies, queer theory), what further developments might be
fruitful, etc. Please submit a brief annotated bibliography along with
your abstract.
2) PEDAGOGY. Presenters in this category might consider both course
content and pedagogical method at all levels of instruction, addressing,
for example, course design, team-teaching, interdisciplinary teaching,
incorporating gender into the curriculum. Please submit a syllabus or any
other relevant material with your abstract.
3) HOW TO. Presenters in this category might address practical issues
such as how to run a conference, how to publish an article, how to
organize a panel for a conference, how to get a job and/or tenure. Please
submit a c.v. with your abstract.
4) SURVIVAL. Presenters might address the difficulties facing feminists
in the discipline today, such as surviving sexual harassment, racism,
ableism, homophobia, as well as combining life and career (e.g.,
motherhood, taking care of aging parents). Please submit supporting
material -- e.g., bibliography, personal statement, etc. -- with your
abstract.
All proposals should be submitted anonymously, with title only.
On a separate cover sheet, please indicate your name, your address, your
affiliation (if any), and the title of your proposal. Please send 6
copies to: Program Committee: Feminist Theory and Classics III,
Department of Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.
Questions: Please contact Sara Lindheim, lindheim@humanitas.ucsb.edu,
805-893-7897, or Rainer Mack, mack@humanitas.ucsb.edu, 805-893-7593, or
Bella Zweig, bzweig@u.Arizona.edu, 520-621-1213.
DEADLINE: May 15, 1999.
The organizers hope to provide need-based financial support to help cover
the costs of travel and lodging. For further information, please contact
Amy Richlin at richlin@mizar.usc.edu.
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'Redefining the End':
A graduate conference to be held on Saturday 4th December 1999 at the
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM.
Our conference will focus on the theme of the endings of periods and eras
in Greek and Roman antiquity. Abstracts are welcomed for papers which
discuss, challenge or defy definitions of 'the end'. The conference will
be intra-disciplinary, and encourages papers redefining the ends of eras
within the fields of literature, philosophy, history and archaeology.
Abstracts for 20-minute papers may be mailed to:
David Creese
Department of Classics
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT
For further information, please write to Mr Creese at the above address, or
by e-mail at: conference@peasmold.force9.co.uk
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 July 1999
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[6] VARIA
Athens News, Letters to the Editor, 1999 02 28.
(http://athensnews.dolnet.gr)
Greece's National Library
AFTER a quarter of a century living abroad, I returned to my homeland to
semi-retire. The need to explore and visit the best that Athens can offer,
led me to the door of the National Library on Panepistimiou Street. I was
dumbfounded when I saw the garbage and dirt (bird droppings, cigarette
butts, even toilet paper) decorating the curved stairs as well as the
entrance to the library, not to mention the obscene graffiti all over the
entrance walls.
Upon entering, the sight was not much better. The wind, as the door opened,
had blown newspapers, and they were scattered all over the floor, and none
of the working people attending the area bothered to gather them up. Once
inside the main library room, to my amazement, I saw all sorts of litter
items scattered along the walls of the bookshelves. Cigarette butts, pieces
of cut wiring, large bound newspaper books just laying or resting on the
walls. The total picture was that of a totally neglected library, nothing
that belongs to a future EMU country, even to a city with such a glorious
past! I was so sad to see that no-one cares! I am ashamed to let my
children see this sight. How can one explain this to our tourists? What are
our excuses? Does anyone listen? Would this country wake up?
S. Skiada
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Dr. Adam D. Blistein Chosen as New APA Executive Director
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Adam D. Blistein to the
position of Executive Director of the American Philological Association.
Dr. Blistein will assume the duties of his new post on July 1, 1999.
Dr. Blistein was graduated from Haverford College with a B.A. in Classics
in 1971, and received his Ph.D. from Yale University in Classical Languages
and Literature in May 1980. His dissertation, written under the direction
of Jeffrey Henderson and C. John Herington, was entitled, "The Nature and
Significance of the Protagonists in the Fifth-Century Comedies of
Aristophanes." After serving as a Lecturer at Haverford College in 1980,
Dr. Blistein became Assistant to the Executive Director of the Institute
for the Study of Human Issues in Philadelphia. In 1983 he moved to the
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Philadelphia, a
non-profit professional association that now serves over 14,000 scientists
and physicians around the world engaged in cancer research. At AACR he has
been Administrative Assistant, Executive Assistant, Senior Administrator,
Associate Director of Administration, and (since 1995) Director of
Administration. The Search Committee was particularly impressed by Dr.
Blistein's work with AACR in its move to a professionalized staff, and in
its growth in membership, meetings, and other programs over the last few
years. Dr. Blistein demonstrated the combination of academic, diplomatic,
and managerial skills for which the position calls.
With Dr. Blistein at the helm, the APA will relocate its headquarters
during the summer to the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. The
Search Committee would like to thank the University, and particularly Ralph
Rosen and Rebecca Bushnell, for their assistance and generosity in
providing the Association with suitable office space. [..........]
David Konstan
President, American Philological Association
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From: IN%"iain.mcdougall@uwinnipeg.ca" 8-MAR-1999 15:40:49.26
Subj: (Fwd) IMPORTANT: more Info on Latin and the IB curriculum (fwd
Marty Abbott has provided additional information on Latin and the IB
curriculum, including an address to which college folks can write.
Sheila Dickison
President, ACL
Attention Latin Teachers in IB Programs and College Professors of Classics!
The article in the recent issue of the American Classical League Newsletter
about changes in the International Baccalaureate Program was inaccurate.
The process of moving Latin from a Group 6 subject to a Group 2 subject is
still under consideration by the IBO. A survey of all IB schools worldwide
was recently conducted and one of the survey questions concerned the moving
of Latin to Group 2.
For the information of college and university professors of Classics, the
International Baccalaureate program which is now recognized in hundreds of
institutions of higher education worldwide including the United States.
The program, however, requires a high level of proficiency in a modern
language while relegating Latin and Greek to secondary positions in the
curriculum. The result is that very few students in the program have room
in their schedules for a long sequence of study of two languages. Because
of increased efforts to raise standards and increase accountability (the IB
program has outside assessments), schools across our country are adopting
the IB program. As a result, many Latin programs at these schools are
dwindling. We know that this has a detrimental effect on Latin and Greek
programs at post-secondary institutions. Please continue reading to find
out how you can help. [..........]
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From: Michael Arnush
Subject: Creation of Classics Department
I am pleased to announce that the Skidmore faculty have ratified the
transformation of the College's Classics Program to the Department of
Classics. The faculty, formerly part of the Department of Foreign Languages
and Literatures, will now be housed in a separate and autonomous
department. This welcome move comes as the result of an external review and
recommendation made three years ago by Barbara Gold (Hamilton), James Helm
(Oberlin), and Barbara McManus (New Rochelle). Our thanks to them for their
encouragement and support in adding a Classics department to our larger
community.
[I forwarded this to my University's Academic VP and Dean of Arts and
Science--both of whom answer to the last name Taylor--who instantly
replied--NOT. KHHK]
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[7] Book length publications by members:
From APh 1997 on-line (see below [8])
V. Histoire et civilisation / A. Histoire generale / d) Le monde
grec des ages obscurs a l'époque hellenistique - Etudes
Ager, Sheila L. Interstate arbitrations in the Greek world, 337-90 B.C.
Berkeley (Calif.) : University of California Pr., 1996. XVII-579 p. index.
(Hellenistic culture and society ; 18). [67-09179
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From: IN%"ISTOREY@trentu.ca" "IAN C. STOREY" 11-MAR-1999 10:44:16.02
_Aristophanes I_, tr. Peter Meineck with introductions by Ian C.
Storey, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998 [plays are: _Clouds_, _Wasps_,
_Birds_].
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[8] W3 SITES NOTED, vel sim.
Announcing AnPhilNet: Aph on the Web
The editors of l'Annee philologique are happy to announce a free and
anonymous APH web site, open to all internet users. The site presently
contains 18,000 bibliographic records and abstracts, which are to be
published as volume 67, covering publications that appeared in 1996.
The database includes a main file containing the APh records in a simple
format, along with the list of APh sections and their contents, a list of
sigla used as periodical abbreviations, and a list of the periodical
fascicles excerpted in the database.
The main file can be consulted using the following: an index of ancient
authors, the APh's secondary rubrics (which appear in the Deuxieme partie),
and an index of words in the titles, the abstracts or the notes. It is also
possible to do a multi-criteria search using boolean operators (AND, OR,
AND NOT) on a number of indexed rubrics (modern authors, including those of
book reviews; ancient authors; record numbers).
At present users can work in French or English.
The URL for the new site is: http://www.aph.cnrs.fr
Questions and comments may be sent to: aph@vjf.cnrs.fr
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Searchable PIR2 name list index
PIR team at Berlin have made their entire name index (elite Romans from c.
30 BC -- AD 280) available for searching via a World Wide Web interface.
The search interface accepts the full range of PERL regular expressions, so
substring searches, range searches and partial matches are all possible.
The search returns the complete (in so far as it is known) titulature of
each individual matched, accompanied by the appropriate PIR2 citation. If
the relevant volume of PIR2 has not yet appeared, a reference to RE or
another source is provided.
The PIR2 web site:
http://www.bbaw.de/vh/pir/index.html
The search interface:
http://www.bbaw.de/vh/pir/suche.html
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CONCEYST - Eichstaetter Konkordanzprogramm zur griechischen Epigraphik.
Das Konkordanzsystem CONCEYST ist nach laengeren Vorarbeiten im
Zusammenhang einer dreijaehrigen Foerderung (1996 bis 1998) durch das
Schwerpunktprogramm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) "Historische
Grundlagenforschung im antiken Kleinasien -- Epigraphik, Numismatik und
Geographie" für das elektronische Corpus der Inschriften von Bithynien und
Pontus entstanden. Nach Beendigung der Foerderung durch die DFG wird das
Projekt am Lehrstuhl fuer Alte Geschichte der Katholischen Universitaet
Eichstaett im Rahmen der zur Verfuegung stehenden Mittel fortgefuehrt.
http://www.gnomon.ku-eichstaett.de/LAG/conceyst/
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From: "Barbara F. McManus"
Subject: Announcement of new site
As part of my work on the VRoma Project, I have put up a new site that
is a series of web pages on Roman history and civilization that teachers
and students may find useful. The direct URL is
,
and there is also a link to the site on the VRoma Home Page
. Each main topic page concludes with a
"Sources" page that lists selected books and external links, and also
contains thumbnails of all the VRoma images used in the pages for that
topic. These thumbnails provide an easy way for people to see a small
sample of the hundreds of images available in the VRoma Image Archive
for their own
non-commercial use .
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VISIT ARCHAEOSURVEY' WEB SITE ( GEOPHYSICAL METHODS)
Dear Professor , visit ARCHAEOSURVEY' web site at
www.planetinternet.it/archaeosurvey for information about the
high-resolution geophysical methods used in archaeological research.You'll
find many examples of magnetometer, resistivity and radar surveys.
Dr. Sandro Veronese
Chief geophysicist of ARCHAEOSURVEY
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WWW SITE OF THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA /
WEB SITE DE LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE DES ETUDES CLASSIQUES:
http://ivory.trentu.ca/www/cl/cac/
(alias: http://www.trentu.ca/cac/)
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