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Late last Wednesday I received the email from our Higher Degree Research Office informing me that my doctoral dissertation had been passed, "subject to some corrections". It was a while later before I was able to begin to read through the examiners' reports. In our Australian system
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I don't know if anyone enjoys these or not, but they are helpful for me to write. PhD Still waiting on examiners’ reports. It will be 3 months on Monday, so I really do expect to hear shortly. #Jobsearch Continues to be unsuccessful. 9 rejections and 1 job
Books
Alright, let’s get to a textbook I really enjoy. Hans Ørberg’s Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana This is, without exaggeration, the best Latin textbook on the market. It’s not perfect, it’s not the be all and end all, but there’s simply
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There was a great recent article on Eidolon, “What is the Best Way to Learn Latin?”, which is a conversation between Daniel Gallagher (student of Foster) and Eleanor Dickey, mediated by Michael Fontaine. The article is great for a few reasons. Firstly, Dickey has done some great work on ancient
Greek
The copy I have of this, from the library is from 1980 and is described as a “Preliminary Edition.” A quick look at Amazon tells me that there is a 2nd Revised edition from 1992 though I can’t comment on what changes were made. Originally written for Summer Greek
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This little piece is me responding in my own way to Alison Innes’ post “Thoughts on Twitter Outreach” and it in turn bounces off Michael Fontaine’s “Promoting Classics to the Public – what worked, what didn’t what couldn’t” Firstly, I find “Outreach” a funny thing in the Classics
Latin
The Oxford Latin is not quite as well known as the Cambridge Latin Course, the latter appearing firs tin the 70s, the OLC not until the 80s. It is primarily the work of Maurice Balme, and James Morwood. I had the pleasure of meeting Morwood a few years back. As
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PhD Still waiting on examiners' reports. They nominally have 3 months, so I don't expect a result before the start of March anyway. I'm feeling less anxious, mainly because I have other things to worry about. #Jobsearch Totally unsuccessful so far. 7 rejections and 1
Greek
A short foreword: I thought, thanks to a suggestion, that I'd start blogging my way through reviews of introductory materials in Greek and Latin. I don't pretend to thoroughness or rigour, just my thoughts on textbooks and readers I've dealt with in some way
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The other day I mentioned Zuntz, and I realised later that many do not know about this wonderful text. So in this post I'm going to introduce/overview it for you. Günther Zuntz (1902 - 1992) was a phenomenally gifted classical philologist and scholar. You can read about his
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Yesterday I tweeted a quote from the preface to Günther Zuntz's monstrous "A Course in Classical and Post-Classical Greek". It's only monstrous because of its size. Zuntz leaves no stone unturned, not even the tiny crushed ones that were what was left of
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I have a vested interest in this topic, since I’ve just completed a PhD in the field and would like a job in it. So, I thought it would be interesting to look at the place of ECS/ECH (Early Christian Studies/History) in Australian tertiary institutions. By ECS,