By Danielle Godjikian As we gathered around the scale model of the Forum of Augustus, our esteemed program director, Dr. Bucher, posed a question that was not covered in the reading: “What is this? A forum for ants!?” This was the first of many models which culminated in the aptly…
By Eliza Gettel This summer, due to the support of Eta Sigma Phi’s first-ever Scholarship for Fieldwork in Classical Archaeology, I was able to pursue the fantasy of being “Indy.” To do this, I traveled to Jordan for three weeks and participated in the Bir Madhkur Project. Dr. Andrew M.…
By Keturah Kiehl “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” So said Gavin Stephens in William Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun. At the ASCSA Summer Session in June–July 2010, I found this to be true in surprising ways. Not only was I to study Greece’s ancient past, but…
(directed by Neil Marshall, Pathé Pictures International, etc, 2010; distributed by Magnet Releasing). A Review by Annalaissa Johnson The producers of The Centurion took its tagline to heart when they said, “History is written in blood.” The plotline tells the story of what happened to the evasive ninth legion that mysteriously disappeared in Britannia around…
(directed by Alejandro Amenábar, Mod Producciones, etc, 2009; distributed by Newmarket Films). A review by Chelisa Elmore of Eta Eta at Virginia Tech Agora is a fictional historical drama based on the historical character of Hypatia (played by Rachel Weisz), a fourth century C.E. philosopher, astronomer, and teacher from Alexandria.…
by Tara Martin Haec epistula // est mea mi composuit idem haud orbi. Dicere fama quae natura atque animo pio. Palmis nuntius eius et creditur tuitis neque. Mei — Pectus — ob eam viri iudicateve leniter. deus invidus est enim. observare ita non cum eo vult ut ludere nolimus alter…
Review of John Hall, Politeness and Politics in Cicero’s Letters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780195329063. $72.86. Reviewed by Emily Wagner, Eta Delta, Hillsdale College. Jon Hall’s study of Cicero’s letters is another indication that politeness theory is rapidly becoming a popular way to reinterpret Classical works. Hall studies…
by Christina Skelton Everyone who has studied Latin has wondered about the verb “to be.” Why is there all the irregularity? Why do we see es- and s- in the present tense as in sum, es, est, but er- in the imperfect, as in eram, eras, erat? It seems to…
by Angela Pitts There you stand, a surfeit of language confounded into silence, like a chasm of sound in the abyss of night, once a chorus of whippoorwills, enchanting itself, until suddenly overawed by unknown footsteps. You do not recognize her standing before you, against all odds, in the light…
by J. Garvey So for three years she was secret in her design, convincing the Achaians, but when the fourth year came with the seasons returning, one of her women, who knew the whole of the story, told us. Wise Penelope was weaving her intricate shroud with intent, unknown to…
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