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Off the top of my head: German Sandberg, German for Reading (essentially the same as his French book; excellent but out of print) Spanish Sandberg, Spanish for Reading (not as detailed as the French or German books) Latin Harrison, Millennium: A Latin Reader (A.D. 374-1374) (texts from the period indicated with light notes) Koine Greek Randall Buth's living Koine Greek materials Decker, Koine Greek Reader: Selections from the New Testatment, the Septuagint, and Early Christian Writers Christophe Rico's Polis: Parler le grec ancien comme une langue vivante (introductory Koine text almost completely in Koine; also available in Italian and German) Whitacre, A Patristic Greek Reader (selections from various writers, ranging from Ignatius to Gregory of Nazianzus; copious notes for intermediate students) Classical Greek Hansen and Quinn, Mastronarde, JACT Reading Greek, and Athenaze are some first-year courses. Biblical Hebrew Randall Buth's living Biblical Hebrew materials Mansoor, Biblical Hebrew Weingreen, A Practical Grammar of Classical Hebrew

I'm sure this is the case at many places, but at most public universities I've applied to (this season and a few years ago for a different field), I was offered funding either immediately or not at all. In my own sample, UGA's an outlier.

If the person who posted the Notre Dame waitlist is here, did they email you or did you email them?

Sent you a PM.

Nevikevin, how were you notified of the UGA funding?

This varies by institution type, but I can think of quite a few fields where full funding is the norm at reputable PhD programs: history, English, classics, modern foreign languages, and science disciplines as well. MA funding for the humanities fields I'm familiar with tends to be more hit and miss. So philosophy is really pretty comparable to other humanities fields in terms of funding, at least in my experience.

It's late in the game, but just in case anyone's interested: the deadline to apply for MA bursaries at Durham has been extended until Feb. 28th. They cover fees at the UK/EU rates only, but non-EU citizens are eligible as well. Here's the message that was posted to CLASSICIST-L (Classics and Ancient History at Durham).

Leuven has an MA in English. And the fees for programs in most European countries (with the UK and Ireland being notable exceptions) tend to be fairly low.

Maelia8, Sandberg's French for Reading is the best out there. And unlike his German for Reading, it's still in print (and available through other means, of course).

As a current graduate student myself, I wouldn't find it odd if a prospective student wanted to meet in person; maybe put that invitation in the second email, though, to people who respond to your first.

I'll respond in a bit more detail now that I'm on my computer rather than my iPad. Regarding which: 1. Evernote has an app called Penultimate, I think, that lets you doodle. I'm sure there are many others. 2. As I and others have mentioned, GoodReader (plus Dropbox) is fantastic. Works like a charm. 3. For me, the iPad in landscape orientation is sufficient for typing on the screen. A bit annoying, but doable. 4. There are plenty of cases and stands you can get for the iPad and for probably any other tablet. 6. I've never used a stylus on the iPad, but you can get one. 7. No experience here. 8. As I mentioned, Android does not natively display polytonic Greek. I recommend not using Android if polytonic Greek is crucial for you, as it is for me. You're right, image files are fine, but any online text, emails, text files . . . you'll get boxes instead of ἑ or ὦ or ἅ. Ἄχρηστον τοῦτο. Like I said, there's supposedly a workaround, but it seems to meet with varying success. 9. Yeah, the iPad kind of fails here, but you can still do a lot of things without iTunes via Dropbox, Goodreader, and other programs that access the cloud.

In my experience, iOS is vastly superior to Android for polytonic Greek. It displays perfectly on my iPad, though I can't type it. On my Android phone, only the characters needed for modern Greek display: no breathings, circumflexes, or graves. Those characters drop out entirely. I believe there's a workaround, but I haven't tried it. I've had my iPad for about a year now and love it. It doesn't meet all your requirements (6 and 9, maybe 12), but I would recommend it. You could buy a stylus for it if you wanted. Goodreader is a fantastic app for reading and annotating PDFs. As for memory, I end up having a lot of nineteenth-century scanned books on it, which chew up some space. Even so, if you're not putting movies and music on it, I've found 16GB to be enough. YMMV.

Nevikevin, glad it was helpful! Good luck to you as well. I've heard UGA can announce funding pretty late, so we'll see. Haven't heard a peep. And I feel the same way.

You may not have seen the results board (it took me a while to notice it up there when I first found gradcafe), but it doesn't have any posts for CU-Boulder classics yet this year. There have been a couple of Toronto classics PhD admits, but no MAs. As for Washington, if you mean WUSTL, it does look like they've sent out first-round acceptances. And I don't think there are any posts for Greek and Latin at Catholic at all, unless I'm overlooking a possible search term. I think it's probably too early to write off any of those schools yet, since spots may open up as waitlists are created and people decline offers. Congrats on Georgia, and good luck on the others!

Thanks for the clarification, philosophe. I didn't actually say "don't contact the department." I said that if the letter came from the graduate school, it could be similar to what I have experienced in the past, which did not require any action on my part. But since we now know that the letter came from the department, my anecdotal evidence does not apply (if it did in the first place).

Well, never mind then. I'd be interested to learn why I was downvoted, since I clearly specified that I was talking about a letter from the graduate school, not the department.

Is that a letter from the graduate school or the department? The last season I applied, I got a few offer letters from graduate schools that seemed to assume I would accept immediately and gave me instructions for doing so. You almost certainly need to worry about advising and registering only if you accept SUNY Albany's offer at some point.

Loric's advice should be taken with many grains of salt. My guess is that 650V could be higher for history, and if you've only taken it once, you could probably boost your score with a little studying. I think humanities programs aren't too concerned about the quant score, except insofar as it makes you competitive for university-wide fellowships, or about the analytical writing score, as long as it's not abysmal. You could try asking in the history subforum for more discipline-specific answers, though. Depending on when you took the old test, you might be running up against the five-year rule for GRE scores.

I'm wondering if UGA still has a few first-round admits left. They've never notified that early, at least according to the results board, and they tend to use the postal service rather than email. So at the very least I'm pretty sure we've got a shot at the waitlist.

Congrats to the WUSTL admits! And to the UMN admit as well; if you're out there, feel free to PM me. I'd be interested to hear your take on the program.

Overall, I agree with you, but I think the implied dichotomy in your last sentence is problematic. Are liberals the only ones more interested in making things better for others than in getting rich? Is the reverse true of conservatives? Or is that not what you meant?

Switters, you may find some interesting reading in this Chronicle thread. Searching for a non-academic job, particularly with PhD in hand, can be a challenging process with difficulties all its own.

Minnesota's department of "Classical and Near Eastern Studies" is another such place, particularly strong in ancient religion.

Welcome, Posidonia!

I don't see the problem . . . Oxford lists the following synonyms, among others, for "enthrall": "captivate," "charm," "enchant," "entrance," and "delight." It's not the most common choice of word, perhaps, but it seems perfectly acceptable in context.