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blogographos is a public blog to which anyone interested in Greek and Roman antiquity may post. This means interested laymen as well as professional classicists and students. This blog is not intended as a challenge to the resources for classicists currently available--chief among them the Classical Greek and Latin Discussion Group, hosted at the University of Kentucky, and David Meadows's rogueclassicism--but rather as a complement.
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Blogographos has moved!
After just revamping my Summer Classics page, turning it into a blog and moving it to TypePad, I decided that Blogographos was in need of some updating as well. I've moved most of my blogs to TypePad from Blogger over the last year. I prefer TypePad's interface and am able to do more with it more happily, so I decided to move Blogographos over as well. There are, then, some changes for visitors and Blogographos's guest bloggers:
URL:
Blogographos will no longer be available from its old address, http://blogographos.dhamel.com, though I'll put a forwarding message there soon. The new address is the more easily remembered http://www.blogographos.net. Please update your links.
Subscription:
You'll need to update your RSS feed, if you subscribe to the blog. The new RSS feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/typepad/blogographos. But note that you can now also receive notification of updates by Twitter. Just get yourself a Twitter account, if you haven't already, and add blogographos as a friend. (Note that the summer classics site also has a Twitter account now.)
Comments:
In moving from Blogger to TypePad, I'm losing the old comments (which were on Haloscan on the old blog). But I just went to the trouble of reading through all the comments in the blog's history, and while there were some exchanges of interest there was nothing absolutely vital buried there. So despite the loss I'm not sorry to be moving to this new format where the comments will be more integral to the post.
Search:
There's a custom Google search box over in the sidebar at the new blog, but the domain is so new that Google probably doesn't know it exists yet. So having that return meaningful results may take a while.
Guest bloggers:
I'm going to be sending out guest blogger invitations to the people who have posted at the old blogographos site, at least in those cases where I have email addresses. It looks like I don't have access to all of them, however, so I welcome anyone who has posted in the past or anyone who would like to post to send me a registration request. I in turn will have TypePad send you an invitation with directions. Note that while TypePad is not, like Blogger, a free service, it is completely free for people to participate as guest bloggers.
Authorship:
The one problem remaining for me in the transition from Blogger to TypePad is that all of the posts on the blog are now attributed to me as author. I'm going to fix this one way or another. It's possible I'll be able to fix this elegantly if old contributors register at TypePad as guest bloggers. But if I'm unable to be elegant I'll go in and edit the posts individually to make note of their true authorship. But this may take me a little while to complete.
That's all I have to report, I guess. I hope you like the new blog. It's more modern and airy and I hope it inspires folks to stop by and contribute more often. Enjoy.
Summer Classics page changes: subscription possibilities
I've spruced up the summer classics page--the site that lists classics courses being offered during the summer at a great many institutions. And it's now moved to a TypePad blog. Users who have been accessing it via the address www.summer-classics.com need do nothing, but if you've been using the longer form of the address (dhamel.com/summer-classics), please update your links to www.summer-classics.com.
The switch from static site to blog was made primarily to make my life easier. It will now be much easier to update. But it's also advantageous because one can now subscribe to receive updates to the page, either by RSS or Twitter.
Horace Translations
I would like to invite people of a classical inclination to view (and comment) on my translations of Horace's Epodes, which I hope to publish in the not so distant future. The link is www.billblogx.blogspot.com . It is my hope that I will get some good, constructive comments on their merits and faults. Thanks, Bill Parsons
Announcing TwitterLit!
The secret project I've been working on here in the lair is now ready for public scrutiny! I've created a new site, TwitterLit.com.
What is TwitterLit? Twice a day, at about 12:00 AM and 12:00PM GMT, I'll post the first line of a book to TwitterLit -- without the author's name or book title, but with a link (to Amazon.com) so you can see what book the line is from. Why? Because it's fun! It's just a little literary teaser twice a day. The first lines will, meanwhile, be available for subscription via RSS and -- and this is the exciting part and the reason for the site's name -- to Twitter.
There is also a highly customizable TwitterLit widget available for posting on your own site, should you want to. You can see my version of the widget in the sidebar at TwitterLit.
There are already three first lines posted at TwitterLit -- I started out with a particularly appropriate quote, I thought. Please do click over to the site to see what it's about.
Tags: books, first lines, Twitter
Wikipedia: Truth vs Equality?
There's a notable essay by Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, "WHO SAYS WE KNOW: On the New Politics of Knowledge" at Edge
Who Says we Know
and a very good discussion after. Since so many students - and not just students - use Wikipedia as a main reference, it's worth thinking about.
Judith
Visit Zenobia's new blog Empress of the EastLabels: Wikipedia
Mary Reanult reviewed
Here's a review of Mary Renault's The Bull from the Sea.
Textile Research Centre
Probably few list members know of the TRC in Leiden, The Netherlands, so a post announcing their Annual Report for 2006 may be in order. While the general public -- incl. BBC world news -- got excited at their acquisition and display of a white silk burqa designed by the Italian fashion designer Gabriella Ghidoni ('a disgrace' according to some), archaeologists and classicists might notice:
1. Projected reconstruction of the garments from the late-1st C BC Tillia Tepe tombs in northern Afghanistan, otherwise famous for the huge quantity of 'Bactrian Gold' jewellery (now being shown at the Musee Guimet in Paris, but due for an American tour in 2008). Also found in the tombs were thousands of small gold plaques which had originally been sewn onto the deceased clothes and remains of the texiles themselves.
2. The current work being done on ancient Egyptian textiles, and especially a structural, weave, and fibre analysis of textile remnants.
See their websiteLabels: Textile Research Centre
The Neaira Video
Update: There's a crisper version of the video available here, but it will take a bit longer to load. (Thanks for the response, Judith!)
The book as video
I am filled with admiration. There were some blurry images and hiccups in the sound, but that may be my old computer. Oddly enough, when viewing a second time, the screen suddenly went dead, taking with it Firefox and all its works. Sexual censorship on You-tube? Naturally, I am wondering how to make a video of Chronicle of Zenobia, not that I'm brave enough to try it yet. I'm still working on the new blog (Empress of the East)-- of which which, come to think of it, you are the godmother.
JudithLabels: video
Trying Neaira: The Book as Video
It was my intention to throw together a quick video about my book, Trying Neaira. And so have I done. The problem is that while it may look in its final form indeed "thrown together," it in fact too me a good long while to put this not quite four-minute-long video together. Suffice it to say that I have increased respect for the likes of Ken Burns right now. Anyway, here it is, the book as video:
Tags: ancient Greece, ancient history, authors, book videos, books, courtesans, Neaira, prostitutes, Trying Neaira, women's history
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