Vergil's Aeneid, Book XII

The LatinStudy Vergil Group has been working its way through Vergil's Aeneid since
the fall of 1999.  At long last, we've reached Book XII.  Anyone who would like to
join us to read all or part of Book XII will be most welcome.

We'll be translating between 25 and 35 lines a week, and we expect to finish the
book (and the *Aeneid*) on February 17th, 2007.  As with all the LatinStudy
translation groups, the goal is collaborative self-study.  Each participant
translates the week's lines and sends them to me, and I collate the assignments
and make an omnibus post to LatinStudy.   For more information, see 
http://www.ravendays.org/latin/lists/vergil.html

The first Book XII assignment, which will be due May 6th, has already been posted.
If you would like to join us for the first assignment, just e-mail me and ask for
a copy.

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Question for university folks

How many weeks are in a college semester?  That is, how many times would a
one hour lab/course be able to meet?

Just curious.

ginny

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Re: Question for university folks

At Baylor a one hour lab would probably meet 14 or 15 times.
The semester lasts 15 weeks.

JET

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From: Classical Greek and Latin Discussion Group on behalf of Ginny Lindzey
Sent: Sun 4/30/2006 8:25 PM
To: CLASSICS-L <at> LSV.UKY.EDU
Subject: Question for university folks

How many weeks are in a college semester?  That is, how many times would a
one hour lab/course be able to meet?

Just curious.

ginny

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Ginny Lindzey, Latin Teacher, ginlindzey <at> lindzey.us

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Gerunds etal

Textual criticism

An addendum to James Butrica's question from last month.

Remember, the question was:

"... I wonder whether list-members find it odd to reject a conjecture in a
text on the grounds that no-one else had thought of it previously."

Said G. Thomas Tanselle, "Classical, Biblical, and Medieval Textual
Criticism and Modern Editing",  Studies in Bibliography, Volume 36 (1983)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-sb?id=sibv036&images=bsuva/sb/images&data=/texts/english/bibliog/SB&tag=public&part=2&division=div

[Speaking about "alterations based on readings present in one or more of
the documents" and "alterations emerging from the editor's own
conjecture":]

"Of course, a reading adopted from one of the documents may be a striking
reading that the editor would not have thought of or dared introduce
independently, but the decision to consider it as worthy of acceptance
into the critical text is still an act of conjecture, always entailing the
potential danger that the reading is accorded too much credence by the
mere fact of its existence in one of the documents."

Neven Jovanovic

Department of Classical Philology
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Zagreb
Hrvatska / Croatia

may 1 <at> rogueclassicism

more on Elgin marbles

Nice letter to WSJ today, from Peter Adamczyk, Chatham, N.J.:

'... Using Mr. Boardman's logic that "cultural heritage belongs to  
the admirers who appreciate and are influenced by it," I propose that  
the British Crown Jewels be moved from the Tower of London to  
Orlando, Fla.'

Sometimes I think wide-eyed Americans are the chief supporters of the  
British monarchy.

Daniel Tompkins
Director, Intellectual Heritage Program
Temple University
214 Anderson Hall,
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215/204-4900

Re: General Interest: the twilight of the English subjunctive?

On Sunday 30 April 2006 13:45, G.I.C. Robertson wrote:

> This reminds me of another peculiarity I've noticed here in 
> Newfoundland: the construction of past contrary to fact protases with 
> 'had to' + verb (or would it be considered 'had' + infinitive?) rather 
> than 'had' + past participle.  E.g.: 'If I had to know you were there, I 
> would have gone', rather than 'If I had known ...'.  

In Kentucky where I grew up, we had a similar locution: If I'd've known... 
not clear to me whether the "'ve" is a reflex of "have" or "of", or whether 
the"'d" is "had" or "would."  In fact since the actual phonetic shape was 
closer to "If I'd'a known..." I'm wondering if it isn't maybe just the same locution 
as the Newfoundland one. How distinct are the "had" and "to" up yonder? 

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Re: General Interest: the twilight of the English subjunctive?

Re: explorator 9.1

Idle curiosity  :

> . . . my non-classicist (but pretty well read anyway!) 
> husband. 

Are (in the perception of Classicists?) non-Classicists 
normally (by definition?) not well-read ("well" in 
quantitative, qualitative or any other (combination of) 
sense(s) you like) ?

Are Classicists on the other hand (qualitate qua) 
always well-read ?

- L. Hunsucker

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From: Classical Greek and Latin Discussion Group on behalf of Anne Mahoney
Sent: Sun 4/30/2006 6:46 PM
To: CLASSICS-L <at> LSV.UKY.EDU
Subject: Re: explorator 9.1

david meadows <rogueclassicist <at> GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Since we're starting our ninth year of putting this thing out, here's
> today's edition:

Wow, eight years completed!  David, I have to admire your patience and
persistence.  I look at Explorator regularly -- and so does my
non-classicist (but pretty well read anyway!) husband.  Thanks for
producing it.

--Anne Mahoney
Tufts University