TAN: So what is a Classicist anyway?

Are you tired of trying to explain what a classicist is? According to the hyperdictionary, here's a pile of synonyms you can use, which should be helpful:

academician, antiquarian, antiquary, antique collector, antique dealer, antique-car collector, archaeologist, archaist, bookman, clerk, colossus of knowledge, dryasdust, genius, giant of learning, humanist, Jonathan Oldbuck, laudator temporis acti, learned clerk, learned man, literary man, litterateur, lover of learning, man of learning, man of letters, mastermind, medievalist, mine of information, Miniver Cheevy, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, plain stylist, polyhistor, polymath, Pre-Raphaelite, pundit, purist, savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolman, student, walking encyclopedia

... or perhaps not.

::Saturday, August 23, 2003 1:51:15 PM::
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TTT: Deaths in the Iliad

As often, while waiting for something to download I meandered onto the web and  came across an interesting website to distract me for a few minutes. The  Deaths in the Iliad site by Ian Johnston, adapted by Carlos Parada. catalogs everyone who dies in the Iliad and usually says who killed them. Casualties are categorized in various ways (I didn't realize, e.g., that Helen had so many suitors who died trying to recover her!).  Pages are a bit slow to load if you're on dialup, but worth the wait.

::Saturday, August 23, 2003 1:17:27 PM::
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NUNTII: Leo Strauss Watch

Adbusters is the latest to jump on the Leo-Strauss-as-messiah-of-the-necon movement. There's nothing really new here, including the media's general penchant for concentrating on smallish details and blowing them into some sort of major philosophy. I would have thought Adbusters would have known better. Read the piece ...

::Saturday, August 23, 2003 12:33:30 PM::
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NUNTII: National Junior Classical League

Who says Latin/Classics is boring? This piece about Penny Cippolone and the 50th anniversary of the NJCL suggests otherwise. It also has some useful numbers for those who think Latin is on the decline.  More from the Chicago Tribune via WXXI ...

::Saturday, August 23, 2003 9:37:24 AM::
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NUNTII (sort of): The Protagoras Principle

By now, most folks are probably thinking the U.S.-as-Roman-Empire has become canardish, so it's somewhat refreshing to see a different area of Classics being mined for inspiration in a journalistic opinion piece. In this one, the guile of Protagoras is trotted forth as a model for certain aspects of the Middle East 'Peace process'. More in the Jerusalem Post ...

::Saturday, August 23, 2003 9:22:22 AM::
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