"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. English profs who despised Literature. I watched a Shakespeare professor get six weeks into a Shakespeare seminar without ever assigning a word of Shakespeare. All those moments will be lost in time, like tweed in the rain."
🚨 Big News 🚨
The Ciceronian Society is excited to announce the hire of its first employee, along with new conference fellowships and a new award! Listen to the new episode of our Podcast, The Sower, to learn more:
https://t.co/499qvIgZJQ
Rumors abound of various colleges falling on hard times or failing outright. Are these rumors as bad as they sound? Has the college bubble finally burst? Sean C. Hadley has written up some thoughts on this. Take a look:
https://t.co/CNz0JgNjrE
Nancy Sindelar giving a talk on #Hemingway and #Communism. Also on this panel, a talk on EH and John Dos Passos, plus sacred spaces on EH's fiction. @theehsociety @CarltonBilbao
OK, our final -and biggest- Loeb give-away for the summer: 31 of them by the looks of it! Sophocles, Euripides, Cicero, Sallust, Suetonius, and the dirtiest poet of all, Martial in 3 vols. Draw 10pm Thurs BST: just RT and follow us before then! And vote below for 1 or 2 winners!
On to Loeb Give-away IV: Homer's Iliad & Odyssey, Hesiod & the Homeric Hymns, Cicero on the gods, Catullus & Tibullus on love and loss, Ovid lustily on the same (sometimes roleplaying as famous women), and Marcus Aurelius' tutor on all sorts. Just RT this before draw on 11 July!
Ok, Loeb give-away number 3: all 5 volumes of the lovely Greek Anthology, Propertius on the thrills & spills of love, Lucan on civil chaos, Cicero on the meaning of life, & Gellius on trivia worth knowing. Draw will be on Wed 3 July. Just retweet & follow us to be in the running!
Our second Summer Loeb Draw! All five volumes of Plautus' comedies, containing 21 plays edited by one of the great Classicists of our age. To enter, just retweet this message and we'll draw a random follower from the list on Friday 21 June! Anyone can enter, so good luck to all.
T. S. Eliot on James Joyce:
“There was some business to do with Joyce, concerning his new book which is very troublesome though unfinished, but we did not get down to that till late. I had first to hear all about Joyce’s private troubles, which are extreme and Irish”
The first of these Loeb giveaways, then: the nine-volume set of Early Greek Philosophy. A bedtime book if ever there were one. Or nine! To enter the draw, just share this tweet and cross your fingers for Monday 10 May!
@suzania@greilsarriskirk I taught it for several years at a Classical school, always as a sign of what not to do. I think that's common in the CCE world.