Sword and Sandal Flicks @ McMaster (and elsewhere)!
Image via Wikipedia Some ClassCon in Maclean’s (Canada’s News Magazine): On a recent Tuesday evening, seven members of McMaster University’s classics club gathered in Room 719 of Togo Salmon Hall to...
View ArticleHomer’s Odyssey … in Canada?
Image via Wikipedia Once upon a time, there was almost an annual event of some guy coming up with a new theory about where Homer’s Odyssey or Iliad really took place … haven’t had one for quite a...
View ArticleAlso Seen: Donum natalicium digitaliter confectum Gregorio Nagy septuagenario...
A different approach (i.e. online) to a Festschrift over at the Center for Hellenic Studies: Donum natalicium digitaliter confectum Gregorio Nagy septuagenario a discipulis collegis familiaribus...
View ArticleOdyssey Mosaics Stolen!!!
Just this a.m. in our Explorator newsletter we were mentioning how looting of antiquities was funding the revolution in Syria … and now my spiders bring in some horrible news from AFP via the Global...
View ArticleOdysseus in America Redux
We’ve had this nuttiness before and once again, it comes from the Greek Reporter: Dr. Enrico Mattievich, a retired Professor of Physics from the UFRJ, Brazil, suggested in 2011 that Odysseus’s journey...
View ArticleHomerathon at UT-Arlington
From the Shorthorn: Students get the opportunity to recite one of the greatest poems in history at Homerathon, senior in history Erin Lynch said. The goal of the reading of Homer’s The Odyssey is to...
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