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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...

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Take a look at this fantastic article and video which offers a glimpse into our marathon reading of The Odyssey. Thanks to all who took part in this- it was a HUGE success (despite the weather)!

http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_22991448/dozens-take-part-12-hour-reading-odyssey-at

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...

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The University of Colorado Program in Mediterranean Studies Presents a Free Public Lecture by Nicholas Purcell, Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford Fellow of Brasenose College titled Not Just About Slavery: Selling People in Greco-Roman Antiquity. The lecture will be held on Tuesday, April 16th from 5:00-6:00 pm in the British Studies Room of Norlin Library, Fifth Floor, West Side. Reception to follow.

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

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A marathon read-aloud of the entire *Odyssey* will take place on Tuesday, April 9th in the ground-floor lobby of Eaton Humanities (CU Boulder Campus). This takes around 12 hours to read, so reading will begin at 9:00am and continue till we get to the end of the work. Please join us in completing this team endeavor by signing up for a 10-minute read-aloud slot! A sign-up sheet is posted outside the Classics Department office (HUMN 340), or you can e-mail Nick Romeo (...

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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...

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Join us on Monday, March 18th at 7PM for Latin Poetry Night - read and translate a poem in Latin. Community members, Grad students, Professors, and brave Undergrads are welcome to join in the fun. The event will be held at the Innisfree Coffee Shop: 1203 13th Street  Boulder, CO 80302 (303) 579-1644.

ATTIC NIGHTS: Tyler Lansford, University of Colorado Department of Classics: Footprints of the Emperors - Death and Transfiguration in the Architecture of the Eternal City

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 7:00 PM

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