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Arma virumque cano: Recitations of Select Greek and Latin Classics Memorial Church: Appleton Chapel...
...broad base of knowledge, Adams enrolled at Harvard, having already worked with some professors in the music department before his arrival. “The first month or so was high anxiety with high hopes of scholarly ambition,” Adams says.He enrolled in a course on ancient Greek, hoping to be able to read Classical texts soon. Adams failed the course that first semester, and stayed away from Classics from then on, focusing instead on his passion for music.Adams studied under Leon Kirchner, a professor of musical composition and composer who Adams says had a definitive impact...
...small concentrations such as women, gender and sexuality, classics, religion, and Germanic languages and literature, three undergraduates earned a trip across the Atlantic as recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship this year. Often responsible for soothing the fears of both parents and students alike about life after studying Latin and Greek, Assistant Professor of the Classics David F. Elmer ’98 says Classics concentrators, among others, go on to a full range of professional and academic careers. As for nervous parents, he jokes, “It’s not hard to convince them that their child will...
...says JoBlo's Garabedian. He dispatched a couple of writers to check out the few minutes of footage that producers were showing at the conference in 2006. "The writers came back to our room, and they couldn't even talk." And just like that, the movie about the ancient Greek battle of Thermopylae with no stars and unusual stylized visuals became the talk of the convention. Six months later, it premiered at Butt-Numb-a-Thon, an Austin, Texas, film festival curated by Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News (AICN). Most mainstream media critics trounced...
...same, while the Albright-Knox is mainly a contemporary collection, it's also the only significant art museum in Buffalo. The local Museum of Science also has examples of Greek, Roman and Egyptian artifacts, but for anyone in that city hoping to see a range of art, the Albright-Knox is pretty much the only game in town. So its deaccession plan led to an angry public meeting in March at which Grachos was confronted by residents insisting he could have done more to find other sources of money...