classics

Help with identifying quotes

telemann wrote in classics Nov 09, 2014 16:37

I am working on an 18th century German cantata book foreword, trying to get it translated into English. But some of the quote citations use abbreviations are hard to make out.

Arist. Quint. L. 2, p. 63 Ex vers. Meib.

and

Bac. de Ver. Hist. Nat. Cent

does anyone recognize these references and what books they are?

Thanks for your help

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Question about Lucian (or other satirist) lampooning collecters

the_norseman wrote in classics Jun 19, 2013 19:24

I mean to remember a dialogue or diatribe about how ridiculous it was to purchase a famous persons pen, or table, or what not, as if owning these items could give you some share in their excellence. It was quite stinging. I mean that it was Lucian of Samosata, but I can't for the life of me find the section, and now I'm starting to wonder if my ( Read more... )

greek, prose composition

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french or german as a secondary language for graduate work?

cellared wrote in classics Feb 11, 2013 21:38

Salvete! Is there an advantage to learning German over French for Classics graduate programs in the U.S.? Are there particular areas of classical studies that have scholarship primarily in one of these languages?

Opinions, tirades, anecdata etc. all greatly appreciated.

metalpoint styli in Rome or Greece

rhiannon_black wrote in classics Apr 01, 2012 22:45

I've begun to research metalpoint as a drawing technique. As far as I can tell, metalpoint was not used for drawing until the Renaissance but was possibly used for writing before that. I'd like to be able to document its early uses, if possible (scribal or artistic). I've read in a number of places that various metals were used as far back " ( Read more... )

English-language sources for Roman Spain.

elowena wrote in classics Nov 11, 2011 19:20

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Female Literacy

aurora_nebulosa wrote in classics Aug 21, 2011 21:54

I'm wondering, does anyone have any good/reliable resources (preferably online) or can anyone give me a brief run-down of what female literacy rates were like within the classical world (central and peripheral) among Roman citizens from about the 1st to the 3rd centuries A.D.? What percentage of women, and, indeed, what type of women were literate ( Read more... )

Greek Conjugation Charts

aurora_nebulosa wrote in classics Aug 09, 2011 16:56

Anyone know of a convenient online source for synopses of Ancient Greek Verbs (including irregulars)?

Thanking you in advance.

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Criticism of Theogony

the_norseman wrote in classics Jul 06, 2011 22:48

I am looking for criticisms of classical Greco-Roman theogony. Preferably from late antiquity or earlier. I recall reading such a criticism which claimed it was absurd to have a historicist view of the Theogony because it assumed the gods had physical bodies. It may have been an early Church Father, but I'm not sure ( Read more... )

myth, classics, classicist

Porphyropoles/porphyropolis

aurora_nebulosa wrote in classics Mar 21, 2011 13:25

I have recently been studying the occurrence (or lack thereof) of "gender-neutral" occupations as held in Scripture (both the NT and OT). I happened upon Acts 16:14 wherein Lydia is called a "seller of purple" (porphyropolis). This is evidently the feminine form of the term "porphyropoles". Since there are both masculine and feminine forms of ( Read more... )

An unsourced Lucretius quote

frozen_jelly wrote in classics Dec 04, 2010 12:59

Hi everyone, my mother is writing a PhD on an unrelated subject discipline - medical stuff - but she has various philosophical wandering in it. Anyway she has a quote ( Read more... )