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...takes a year or two for a course to be fully fleshed out from the proposal," says Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature R.J. Tarrant, the professor of Literature and Arts C-61: "The Rome of Augustus...
...part of the educated elite, had to study the ancient classics in Greek and Latin. Even before that, when the Romans had conquered the Greeks, who had an older and more established culture, they hired Greek tutors to educate their young aristocrats. Harvard only continues this tradition with Shakespeare, Rome of Augustus, "Greek Heroes," and the courses on the Middle Ages (Chaucer and the like...
...Mort d'Orphee, though composed in the same year as the Waverly, has a distinctly different tone. Berlioz wrote it for the Prix de Rome, the most prestigious composers' competition in Paris, but the judges deemed it too daring. This work tells the tale of Orpheus' death in three movements. The first is a sorrowful tenor melody in which Orpheus laments for his lost Eurydice. The second depicts the wrath of Bacchus' priestesses, who tear Orpheus to pieces when he rejects their love. Both a tenor and a women's choir are required for this movement, but this seems almost...
...Caselotti possessed a similar innocence about the outside world when she was picked at the age of 17 to bring Snow White to life for a whirlwind adventure with Seven Little Dwarfs and an evil stepmother. In a 1993 interview, Caselotti, who was educated in a convent outside of Rome, said that she didn't even realize she was working on Disney's first feature-length production until the movie's star-studded premiere. Paid $970 for her role in making the lighthearted Snow White part of American movie folklore, Caselotti never saw her career venture much beyond "Whistle While...
...year-old Mesiano and the willingness by Iannello, a onetime local crime boss, to help out with official mob investigations after his arrest. The ruling has astonished Italians, particularly given the reputation of Callabrio, the region where Green was murdered, as the "Wild West of Italy," says TIME Rome correspondent Greg Burke. "Most people had been expecting these people to get nailed, " says Burke. "It wasn't one of these O.J. deals, where who knows how it's going to come...