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Ergun LAFLI | 18 May 2013 11:15
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A New Book: Glass

Dear Colleagues,

A new booklet of us has just appeared in Germany:

S. Funfschilling/E. Lafli, Hadrianopolis II: Glasfunde des 6. und 7. Jhs.
aus Hadrianupolis, Paphlagonien [Turkei], Internationale Archaeologie 123
(Rahden/Westf. 2012) (ISBN-13: 978-3-89646-498-9; ISBN-10: 3-89646-498-1).

Summary: The second volume of „Hadrianopolis” series, a Roman-Byzantine
site in southwestern Paphlagonia, has been dedicated to the glass finds of
6th-7th cent. A.D.: A very homogenous local material group with fairly
good dated contexts and limited repertory.
The booklet can be obtained from Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH
(Rahden/Westf.): http://www.vml.de/e/detail.php?ISBN=978-3-89646-498-9

Best wishes from Izmir,

Prof. Dr. Ergün LAFLI
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Szegedy-Maszak, Andrew | 17 May 2013 22:13

Mageiros

Hello, all.
I received the following query today from a non-Classicist: "I'd like to confirm that the term mageiros was
used to refer to all of the following occupations: butcher, cook, and priest. Is this accurate?"

To which I replied, having consulted the big LSJ, 'I did a little research of my own, and "butcher" and "cook"
are certainly right for _mageiros_; I found one, late reference to its meaning "presiding at a sacrifice"
- presumably because the animal would be killed and would have to be butchered - but I'm not sure about its
meaning "priest" except in this very specialized sense.'

I now turn to The List to ask about this. It occurred to me that perhaps my correspondent was blending
_mageiros_ with _magos_. I / we would be grateful for comments.
Andy SzM

Andrew Szegedy-Maszak
Professor of Classical Studies
Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT  06459
ph: 860.685.2065
fax: 860.685.2089
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June Samaras | 17 May 2013 18:23
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Podcast now available! Mathematics: A Quest for Truth

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From: Onassis Cultural Center NY <news <at> onassisusa.org>
Date: 16 May 2013 17:52
Subject: OCC NY: Podcast now available! Mathematics: A Quest for Truth
To: "june.samaras <at> gmail.com" <june.samaras <at> gmail.com>

**

On Tuesday, May 7th, 2013, the Onassis Cultural Center NY
presented:*“Mathematics: A Quest for Truth”
*at the New York Public Library with *Christos Papadimitriou* (right)
and *Costis
Daskalakis* (center), and the moderator of the series, *Simon Critchley*.
This was part of the philosophical conversation series, *On Truth (and
Lies).*

Can mathematics be defined as the “…subject in which we never know what we
are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true,” as Bertrand
Russell once wrote? *Click
here*<http://onassisfoundationusa.createsend1.com/t/j-l-jhuyidk-yhyudiihy-y/>to
listen to Papadimitriou and Daskalakis along with Critchley explore,
in
a lively discussion, the foundational quest for the logical basis of
mathematics, from the ancient Greeks to modern times, using as a platform *
Logicomix*, the graphic novel co-authored by Papadimitriou. “The will of
men,” answered Papadimitriou, quoting José Saramago, when asked what drives
this quest, at the conclusion of the evening.

To learn more about our upcoming events,* click
here<http://onassisfoundationusa.createsend1.com/t/j-l-jhuyidk-yhyudiihy-j/>
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Gabriel Bodard | 17 May 2013 15:28
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Which beginners=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99?= Ancient Greek textbook( s) do you use?

Dear colleagues,

Please could you take a moment to fill in this survey on the use of 
textbooks for the teaching of beginners’ Ancient Greek. Only the first 
three questions are obligatory, and the whole survey should only take a 
minute to complete. Please circulate this request to any colleagues or 
communities who may not have seen it here.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FBJ39QL

A couple of notes:

1. Please answer the questions with regard to your own teaching: only 
include classes taught by others if you are sure no one else will 
include them in their answers. (e.g. if you are in a small teaching unit 
and your colleagues have told you they have no intention of answering). 
This will never be a comprehensive or reliable survey, but I’d like to 
avoid any blatant inaccuracy as far as possible.

2. Because of the nature of the questions, this survey is only really 
appropriate for the anglophone world. I’d be very interested to see more 
international results, but someone else would need to design the survey.

(Please don't reply on-list re this survey, but contact me personally if 
there seems to be any problem.)

Many thanks

--

-- 
Dr Gabriel BODARD
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June Samaras | 16 May 2013 19:39
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Roman Error: The Reception of Ancient Rome at Michigan

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From: Vassilios Lambropoulos <vlambrop <at> umich.edu>
Date: 16 May 2013 07:54

The conference is sponsored by the consortium Contexts for Classics
http://www.umich.edu/~cfc/        Vassilis Lambropoulos

Roman Error: The Reception of Ancient Rome as a Flawed Model
A conference at the University of Michigan September 20 - 21, 2013

The idea of large-scale Roman missteps—whether imperial domination,
sexual immorality, political corruption, greed, religious intolerance,
cultural insensitivity, or the like—has been a notion “good to think
with” since antiquity, and persists in familiar comparisons between
the Roman Empire and the present-day United States.  This conference
seeks to go beyond a merely thematic discussion to  re-examine the
connections between “Roman error,” broadly conceived, and basic
features of the reception of antiquity including: misunderstanding and
misprision, repetition and difference, the subject’s relation to a
(remembered or unconscious) past, performance and illusion, and links
between text and image.  If the Romans “erred,” what are the
consequences for Rome’s inheritors as they attempt to construct a
stable relation to Rome as a flawed “source” or model?  We ask not
simply, “Are Rome’s errors ours?” but, “How does Roman error figure in
the  reception of Rome itself?”

FRIDAY, September 20th

2:00 Welcome
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June Samaras | 16 May 2013 19:38
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Minoan civilization was made in Europe [DNA]

http://www.nature.com/news/minoan-civilization-was-made-in-europe-1.12990?goback=%2Egde_690807_member_240895350

Minoan civilization was made in Europe
DNA casts doubt on Egyptian origin for ancient Cretans.

Ewen Callaway
14 May 2013

Minoan artefacts are different from those of nearby Bronze-Age Greece
— but DNA studies suggest the civilization might be home-grown after
all.

When the British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans discovered the
4,000-year-old Palace of Minos on Crete in 1900, he saw the vestiges
of a long-lost civilization whose artefacts set it apart from later
Bronze-Age Greeks. The Minoans, as Evans named them, were refugees
from Northern Egypt who had been expelled by invaders from the South
about 5,000 years ago, he claimed.

Modern archaeologists have questioned that version of events, and now
ancient DNA recovered from Cretan caves suggests that the Minoan
civilization emerged from the early farmers who settled the island
thousands of years earlier.

The Minoans flourished on Crete for as many as 12 centuries until
about 1,500 bc, when it is thought to have been devastated by a
catastrophic eruption of the Mediterranean island volcano Santorini,
and a subsequent tsunami. They are widely recognized as one of
Europe's first 'high cultures', renowned for their pottery, metal-work
and colourful frescoes. Their civilization fuelled Greek myths such as
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June Samaras | 14 May 2013 17:42
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UIUC: 3rd Annual Midwest Greek Linguistics Workshop: Saturday, May 18

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From: Terkourafi, Marina <mt217 <at> illinois.edu>
Date: 14 May 2013 11:24

The Department of Linguistics and the program in Modern Greek Studies
at the University of Illinois are delighted to announce the

3rd Annual Midwest Greek Linguistics Workshop

Lucy Ellis lounge, Foreign Languages Building, 707, S. Mathews Ave,
Urbana IL 61801
Saturday, May 18, 11am-4.30pm

The plenary speaker this year will be Dr Anastassia Loukina (PhD
Oxford, 2008) and the title of her talk is: “Nature versus nurture in
phonetic variation: what can we learn from Greek dialects?”.

For full program details and to download the abstracts booklet, please
visit: http://faculty.las.illinois.edu/mt217/Midwest_Greek_Linguistics_3.html

The workshop is co-sponsored by the Department of Linguistics, the
program in Modern Greek Studies, and the Beckman Institute (CS/AI).

--
Marina Terkourafi
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Associate Editor, International Review of Pragmatics
Series Editor, Empirical Foundations of Theoretical Pragmatics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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June Samaras | 14 May 2013 17:03
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Fwd: BBC broadcast on Neoplatonism

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01g62w1?goback=%2Egde_690807_member_240632653

Neoplatonism
Duration: 45 minutes First broadcast: Thursday 19 April 2012

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Neoplatonism, the school of thought
founded in the 3rd century AD by the philosopher Plotinus.

Born in Egypt, Plotinus was brought up in the Platonic tradition, studying
and reinterpreting the works of the Greek thinker Plato. After he moved to
Rome Plotinus became the most influential member of a group of thinkers
dedicated to Platonic scholarship. The Neoplatonists - a term only coined
in the nineteenth century - brought a new religious sensibility to bear on
Plato's thought. They outlined a complex cosmology which linked the human
with the divine, headed by a mysterious power which they called the One.
Neoplatonism shaped early Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious
scholarship, and remained a dominant force in European thought until the
Renaissance.

With:

Angie Hobbs
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Senior Fellow in the Public
Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Warwick

Peter Adamson
Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College London

Anne Sheppard
Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London
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June Samaras | 13 May 2013 18:20
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Ελληνικές σπουδές

From: Vassilios Lambropoulos <vlambrop <at> umich.edu>
Date: 13 May 2013 10:06

A timely and substantial reflection on Modern Greek Studies:

http://www.tovima.gr/opinions/article/?aid=512182

Ελληνικές σπουδές
ΔΗΜΟΣΙΕΥΣΗ:  12/05/2013 05:45

Το υπουργείο Παιδείας στο νομοσχέδιο που ετοιμάζει
για την
ελληνόγλωσση εκπαίδευση των Ελλήνων του εξωτερικού
σχεδιάζει να
αναθέσει στο Διεθνές Πανεπιστήμιο της Ελλάδας, με
έδρα τη Θεσσαλονίκη,
την αξιολόγηση και την επιχορήγηση των ελληνικών
σπουδών του
εξωτερικού. Δεν γνωρίζω με ποιες προϋποθέσεις ή με
ποια πείρα το εν
λόγω Πανεπιστήμιο θα αναλάβει έναν τέτοιο ρόλο,
δεδομένου ότι δεν
διαθέτει ειδικούς στις Νεοελληνικές Σπουδές και οι περισσότεροι
διδάσκοντές του προέρχονται από άλλα ιδρύματα. Το
παράδοξο είναι ότι
ενώ το υπουργείο θέλει να στηρίξει τις ελληνικές
σπουδές σε ξένα
πανεπιστήμια δεν συμβουλεύτηκε ποτέ τις αρμόδιες Εταιρείες
Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών της Ευρώπης, της Αμερικής και
της Αυστραλίας,
ώστε να έχει μια έγκυρη πληροφόρηση για τις
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Nick Lowe | 13 May 2013 16:17
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Re: before Ventris there was Alice E. Kober

Odd that the NYT piece seems unaware of Kober's current claim to fame 
as the subject of Alison Fell's rather remarkable 2012 novel The 
Element -inth in Greek. I think I'll let the Amazon blurb do the 
business here:

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In a small holiday village on the coast of Crete, Ingrid Laurie is 
researching a biography of the neglected linguist Alice Kober, who 
laid the basis for the decipherment of the ancient Cretan script 
Linear B, but died too young to reap the rewards of her work. While 
Ingrid struggles to decipher the life of the enigmatic scholar, on 
the outskirts of the village local policeman Yiannis Stephanoudakis 
discovers a bizarre naked corpse covered in honey and dead bees. When 
their paths cross in the course of the investigation erotic sparks 
fly. Mingling detective fiction and biography, modern romance and 
prehistoric marriage ritual, Alison Fell probes the mysteries of love 
and language in this intricately-crafted, luminous novel.

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It's actually very well researched, though the prehistoric marriage 
ritual stuff won't be to all scholars' taste...

Nick Lowe.
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Tamara Green | 13 May 2013 01:33
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source of quote

A colleague in the History department  asked me if I knew the source of the following phrase:

"Ut ibi arduum calsum (cursum?) angelorum perficiam."

does anyone recognize it? I haven't a clue.

thanks.

Tamara Green
Hunter
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