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I don't know what you mean in terms of phonology in prose, the pronunciation in general was the same as they spoke, if you mean accentuation etc then there's a decent amount of work done on the prosody of Greek speech, I think Devine's is the most accessible introduction. As for Xenophon, no, we did in our first year Greek class and that's all I know I'm afraid. I don't really go for philosophy, as for my area its anthropological/socio-cultural in approach with a heavy dash of traditional philology, I guess in that sense I'm a pretty typical exponent of the British contextualising school and will focus on semantics, lexicopgraphy etc. Or as my girlfriend refers to my work "its lemmata and dead bodies!".

The statement. I mean its always difficult to know what to exclude/exclude and the length was so...restrictive. I mean, 200 more words could have made a massive difference. I guess everyone else is similarly handicapped. Films: I automatically assume any film/series on the ancient world is going to be iffey. Its the nature of things, the popular imagination is far removed from academic discourse. Even on the academic side, very few academics have made ample use of anthropology etc to actually get a decent handhold on what the ancient world's cultures *could* have been like anyway. So its not like we have an absolute measure from which we can spot deviations. Unfortunately this means that most film makers feel they can fill the huge cultural gaps....with sex. Remember the series Rome? Hahaha. Honestly, put in the directors chair, I'd do the same. Depending on who I've got cast, obviously. Actually, visually, I don't think I've ever seen accurate dress or military gear. Agora stands out visually for a) coming close in parts despite odd uses of leather and bracers and being so....visually pretty. Yes, it could have been more colourful but in ggeneral the images were so evocative. It was a pretty film.

Not a series but the film Agora was quite good, in fact in terms of films the Irene Papas ones are great if you speak Greek. There's a BBC production of Aiskhylos' Agamemnon en Anglice on Youtube somewhere, which is something. I actually can't think of many...

Sorry I missed this! Yeah I'd never heard of Daitz until relatively recently, he sort of sticks in your head. Whenever I've had to teach Greek, I spend a few hours just getting students to repeat after me, clearing up the consonants, widening their vowels, learning to follow the accents and length - it makes learning forms in general much easier and, if they choose, the progression to modern Greek is less difficult and a matter of following some simple sound changes. However, for the lolz, I will start Daitzing it. Yes, its a verb now. I didn't know they wore robes in the states too! It feels amazing doesn't it? Makes dinners, lectures (which require them - sadly few) and special occasions a bit better. I don't know, there is always something so comforting in putting the robes on before an exam, like an Iliadic arming scene. I will miss them to be honest. Mease, don't worry, I'm not intending to change my natural accent, just wish I could make a few in English that's all.

The basic stereotypical New York (Brooklyn?) accent you see referenced in Friends etc. EDIT: Basically, it keeps coming out a bit...drunk Yorkshireman rather than bona fide Brooklyn. Which is odd, because when I try to do a Yorkshire accent it comes out all weird....

To be fair, did anybody know what was going on in the 60s and 70s? I'm all for semi-formal dressing to be honest, but them I'm also used to wearing academic robes. I've never really cared what other people wear either, as long as you're comfortable. And not wearing something offensive, obviously. Yes, any alternatives to Daitz are appreciated, I mean its not hard to avoid anglophonicism and use pitch without sounding like a maniac, but then I grew up multilingual, speak (modern) Greek etc. Oddly, I'm not good at accents within English, I've been trying to do an American accent for ages and just can't shake my British one....

I...ugh...don't even know where to start with the Daitz stuff, which is hilarious because he's so militant in his stance, he must betone deaf or something. Some of these almost killed me, laughter is a potent medicine.

Hard to say, there are too many brilliant variations of pizza. One thing though, is that my recent time in Paris has got me experimenting both with different blends of cheeses (including raw milk cheeses) and in particular using creme fraiche in the sauce recipe. I love pizza, if I could go to grad school for it, I would.

Just curious, there's not much discussion around here lately.

Yes that would work indeed actually. I had considered that. I'm basically looking for alternative styles, and also trying to find the right balance in terms of not making the SOP look over saturated. It really is an artform, writing one of these....

Forgive the odd title, not sure how to phrase it. I suspect this might be more problematic for Humanities students, though I'm unsure. Basically, when listing interests how to go about doing it without sounding like you have the verbal aptitude of a 4 year old. There are only so many times one can write "I am interested in....I am also interested......xyz also interests me". You're going to seem asinine... Any tips?

In questions, you know you get these algebra questions with a million square roots and things, sometimes multiplying by each other etc, I've no idea how to even begin with these. :S

I'm in a similar situation, the Barrons is killing me a little on practice scores. I scored ok on the diagnostics for verbal (171-?) and poorly for the Quant (139!?). Weeks of slogging it out have only slightly raised my Quant (147) and crippled my verbal into the 15Xs. God, nevermind all the time lost from actually writing SOPs/writing samples. I'll have less than two weeks to get everything else done.

How did you get a verbal score that high?

Related question, how common is it for US Classicists to have Sanskrit or other languages? I'm firmly a Hellenist but a lot of the UG courses here offer comp phil courses and I can read Sanskrit and a few other IE languages, I've met with people from Princeton and Harvard who are into that too and I know that UCLA is the US home of comp phil, I was just wondering in general. Is it a course that most universities would allow you to teach?

I see, thank you, that's pretty easy to handle I guess. Of particular use was the section dealing whether one ought to focus on a narrow research aim vs wider interests. I can see why being too narrow can be terrible, on the other hand with subjects like this it is easy to go too wide isn't it? I mean I'm sure I could point out that I'm interested in the formation of a Roman literary corpus as an example of elite conspicuous display or whatever, and I am, but that has nothing to do with my research area and simply listing authors/academics who I like is even more pointless. I genuinely think that this will be the area where I have the most difficulty.... Thank you.

Hello, I'm from the UK system and will be applying to the US (though its cutting it a little late actually...) and started wondering about the statements that get sent with the applications. Essentially, I'm not sure what sort of information to include on this thing, in the UK we just put together a research proposal rather than a more general essay on why we like the Classics, I was hoping that there might be a sort of repository of example personal statements or something to look at, since I haven't had to write one since I was applying for my undergraduate degree. Or any help at all really. Thanks.