In the Spotlight

Four classics teachers have received the first set of APA Pedagogy Awards.  One of the major goals of the APA’s recently and successfully completed capital campaign, Gatekeeper to Gateway:  The Campaign for Classics in the Twenty-first Century, was to ensure that an inspiring, well trained teacher would be available for every school and college classics classroom.  A subcommittee of the Joint Committee on the Classics in American Education, whose membership is selected from both the APA and the American Classical League, reviewed twenty-one applications requesting funds to support a...

Recent work in Cognitive Neuro-Linguistics provides a more solid theoretical basis for the study of meter as a pathway into the literary interpretation of Homeric epic than do aesthetic approaches on which scholars have previously relied.  Drawing on research into “Event-Related Brain Potentials” (ERPs), Professor Schein’s paper focuses on Hermann’s Bridge as a point of departure for discussion of the opening of Iliad 24, where there are conspicuous violations of this metrical norm in lines 35 and 60.  He...

The Symposium will be held on the 5th floor of Norlin Library in the Center for British Studies: ...

Professor Christopher Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek, Oxford University: How the Greeks explained history: the case of Herodotus
Wednesday, March 20th, 5:30 pm, HUMN 250

Abstract: 'Are scientific and historical explanations felt as operating in the same way, and in particular need they imply inevitability or even predictability? That is an issue still; it was also an issue in the fifth-century BCE, when both historiography and (in particular) medicine were...