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hanbran

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  1. Congratulations to all of the newly accepted applicants!! Also, if any ancient historians check this page, they should totally head over the the classics page as well.
  2. The wait is worse than the rejection. Happy weekends to all. Remember the words of Solon: "Μοῖρα δέ τοι θνητοῖσι κακὸν φέρει ἠδὲ καὶ ἐσθλόν, δῶρα δ᾿ ἄφυκτα θεῶν γίγνεται ἀθανάτων."
  3. There were several students in my first year high school class who did not realize, until week three, that they were not, in fact, learning Spanish.
  4. I was once reading Phaedo on the bus, and a man who was registering voters walked up to me, noticed that I was reading Greek, and, assuming that I could not speak English, walked by me. He asked literally every other person on the crowded bus to register to vote.
  5. Thanks, everyone! Now, what about Coptic?
  6. I have the advantage of being able to say that I am (attempting to become) a historian of ancient Greece and Rome. I sometimes say that I am a graduate student in the Department of Classics. People rarely ask me to define "Classics," but I have done so. In terms of research methodology, I suppose that I'm a classicist with predominantly historical interests. I used to call myself an amateur philologist (my undergraduate degree is in history), but I technically get paid to study philology now, so I have the great delight of telling people that I am a professional philologist. I simply do not tell them how dreadfully poor I am.
  7. That is a statement which I have never before heard uttered by a Classicist XD!
  8. I found this online: http://ia600304.us.archive.org/17/items/grammarofoscanum00buckuoft/grammarofoscanum00buckuoft.pdf
  9. Any books you could recommend?
  10. Any particular region, era, or culture?
  11. Quick poll to satisfy my curiosity: are any of you exclusively dedicated Hellenists or Latinists?
  12. Apuleius is terribly under appreciated. I was very glad to find him in Pagel's most recent book.
  13. Good luck to all indeed. I'm reading Cleon's speech in book III of Thucydides. "οἱ μὲν γὰρ τῶν τε νόμων σοφώτεροι βούλονται φαίνεσθαι τῶν τε αἰεὶ λεγομένων ἐς τὸ κοινὸν περιγίγνεσθαι..." brings to mind soooo many people XD. I know that some schools only interview some candidates whom they later admit, so don't be nervous.
  14. Do you know to which division of UMich she applied? Classics, IPGRH, or IPCAA?
  15. For the scholarly articles, or for the grammatical articles?
  16. I've read some wonderful articles on phonology in Aristophanes, Plautus and Menander, but I've never read anything on phonology in prose. That sound like a wonderful project. My admiration for Plato's creative brilliance rises each time I read a new dialogue. I have never read more than a few passages of Xenophon though. Any recommendations?
  17. http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-who-willingly-rented-wrath-of-the-titans-feels,30969/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=standard-post:headline:default
  18. Letter of Recommendation are very annoying to procure. I'm finishing an MA at the moment too, so I literally just asked people to write letters for me, and I had to do it again. Most professors understand that it's all part of "being an academic mentor," but I feel like they have far more important (and compelling) things to do. It's very unsettling when someone (everyone) waits until a few days before the deadline to submit a letter as well. I have nothing against the concept of the GRE, but $25 to send a score report is ridiculously steep, after paying over $100 to take the test. I'm honestly not against application fees either, but when you only make $18k a year, $1k in app fees is a lot of money. I know that fee waivers exist, but they're very difficult to obtain, at least, in my experience. Do you prefer to study ancient philosophy from a philological, historical, cultural, or philosophical angle?
  19. Video games are even worse than movies. Has anyone ever played Shadow of Rome for the PS2? They just made everything up. At one point, Octavian and Agrippa actually translate Latin into English...
  20. Application and GRE fees. Diversity statements were rough too. And some schools capped the writing sample length really low.
  21. I once went to a conference which had a panel on the Ancient World in popular culture, and a woman gave a presentation on that movie. It led to a wonderful conversation on Neo-Platonism in the later Roman Empire. But the movie seemed a bit hokey. Maybe she just presented it in a hokey fashion.
  22. I couldn't get into Spartacus. Is Agora the one about Hypatia of Alexandria?
  23. The only one I've liked is I, Claudius.
  24. Search classics on the results search engine. Wisconsin-Madison seems to have been the first to notify this year.
  25. Congrats to the first batch of accepted people.
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