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The horses**t that is killing Universities world-wide
Please excuse my cursing, but I feel that such direct earthy language is strictly necessary in this case. THE HORSESHIT THAT EATS THE HEART FROM UNIVERSITIES Read it and weep. An actual email sent out...
View ArticleVergil’s fancy to the bees, and the heavenly elixir
esse apibus partem diuinae mentis et haustus | aetherios dixere — Vergil, Georgics 4.220-221 Just saw this quoted in Claire Preston, 2006, Bee London: Reaktion Books. Google tells me that Claire...
View ArticleWhy study Classics?
hoc illud est praecipue in cognitione rerum salubre ac frugiferum, omnis te exempli documenta in inlustri posita monumento intueri: inde tibi tuaequae rei publicae quod imitere capias, inde foedum...
View ArticleOne Year! Or, the Academic Job Market in Classics
Just saw on the CLASSICISTS mailing list a job listing. Of course, as a mere PhD student this sort of thing is of only ‘academic’ interest to me. Nonetheless, it really boggled me to think that a...
View ArticleWrite your thesis in Plain Text!
I really don't understand why most people in the Humanities insist on using Microsoft Word to write their material. Universities habituate their undergraduate humanities students to Word and they...
View ArticleEpidoc and literary artifacts
It was with a fair amount of interest that I read through AWOL that Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL) texts are now available in XML (TEI/Epidoc) format through Github – just the...
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