A Piggyback and Personal Account of Classics in Malawi
Disclaimer: Not to worry—I have no intention of going wild with blogging, having now discovered it. This will be my last post for a bit, as I will be away working on other things Read more
Language/Literature
Greece and Mesopotamia
Hello everyone. I think I am next on the list of scheduled posts, though after Mark’s fascinating blog from Malawi I am not sure I can meet the brief. My name is Johannes Haubold, I am spending the Spring Semester as a resident fellow here at the Center. My project… Read more
What does Athens have to do with Africa?
I am a non-resident Fellow at the Center this year (I will be in residence, however, in April and hope to meet some of you then) and a research project in the field of Classics has brought me, mirabile dictu, to Africa. Read more
Why to mine (but leave the pickax at home)
Everyone is into data mining these days. Retailers find patterns in what you buy so that they can better market to you, governments search for patterns that identify terrorist threats, and data mining is at the core of privacy debates about the quarry of information collected by Facebook, Google and other websites. But the news isn't all potentially nefarious or the subject of impending litigation. Data mining is simply a… Read more
Plutarch on dance
Simonides’ dictum “Painting is silent poetry, poetry is speaking painting” is very well known and appears over and over again in modern studies of ancient art and ecphrastic literature; Plutarch himself, who quotes it in The fame of the Athenians 3 (mor. 346F), refers to it elsewhere as “that often… Read more