[Sappho]

(Original post by ArcadiaHouse)
Hello children. I am now one of you. I am doing a Classics degree.

Tell me what an amazing time I'm going to have

Where will you be studying?

[ArcadiaHouse]

(Original post by Sappho)
Where will you be studying?

Glasgow University. My subject has been up in the air for some time now but I am now officially on honours Classics. I'm going into the third year of my degree, but it'll be all Classics from now on.


Can anyone recommend me any nice Classics student posters please?

[ArcadiaHouse]

(Original post by The Lyceum)
Homer I hope?

Yep, the Odyssey in 'Landscaping the Ancient Greek World'.

[ArcadiaHouse]

I really like how tight-knit classics students seem to be. I think the more popular humanities subjects don't allow for that same level of intimacy.

[RedDragon]

(Original post by ArcadiaHouse)
I really like how tight-knit classics students seem to be. I think the more popular humanities subjects don't allow for that same level of intimacy.

Well as there are 150 people on my law course, getting to know them all personally would be rather a challenge but it still feels like a family...probably because the business students don't tend to mix with us. Honestly we aren't that frightening.

[justanotherindigo]

Hii to all

I just wanted to ask if anyone has any recommended books for those who haven't really studied Classics before. My school don't offer it at gcse or a-level so I was wondering on what books I should begin with (I want to study Classics at uni by the way). Thank you(: x

[The Lyceum]

(Original post by justanotherindigo)
Hii to all

I just wanted to ask if anyone has any recommended books for those who haven't really studied Classics before. My school don't offer it at gcse or a-level so I was wondering on what books I should begin with (I want to study Classics at uni by the way). Thank you(: x

Well...just find some stuff that interests you and read. Its the best way really. If you like Roman literature for example get a good Penguin edition of a text you've heard of and just read it, etc.

Its the funnest introduction I can think of.

[ArcadiaHouse]

Hey y'all,

Does anyone know who this dude is and what the inscription says? My brother got him on holiday years ago and forgot who it is, we'd like to know. Cheers.

(Taken on my phone, sorry. I believe he's from Corfu )

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[medbh4805]

(Original post by ArcadiaHouse)
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Achilleus.

[ArcadiaHouse]

(Original post by medbh4805)
Achilleus.

The emperor? Or is that another name for Achilles?

Thank you

[The Lyceum]

(Original post by ArcadiaHouse)


The emperor? Or is that another name for Achilles?

Thank you

That's an epic form of the name in Greek Akhilleus, Achilles is a Latinisation via a West Greek and then Etruscan. Like a large amount of Grecian imports into Latin.

That looks like those random statues you find in Plaka and Greek islands etc. I have a notebook, in a similar vein, which lists Homer amongst the Greek philosophers haha.

[medbh4805]

(Original post by ArcadiaHouse)


The emperor? Or is that another name for Achilles?

Thank you

As Lyceum says it's the epic spelling of the name - it's a touristy thing so probably intended to represent the Achilles of the Iliad (I used the spelling Achilleus because it's used in Lattimore which is the English translation I'm used to but I can see how it could be confusing, sorry). A lot of the popular names of Greek figures like Achilles are slightly different from the direct Greek transliterations

[faber niger]

He does look a bit bleary-eyed though, don't we think? Must be all that wrath.

[ArcadiaHouse]

(Original post by medbh4805)
As Lyceum says it's the epic spelling of the name - it's a touristy thing so probably intended to represent the Achilles of the Iliad (I used the spelling Achilleus because it's used in Lattimore which is the English translation I'm used to but I can see how it could be confusing, sorry). A lot of the popular names of Greek figures like Achilles are slightly different from the direct Greek transliterations

(Original post by The Lyceum)
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Thank you! I've never seen 'Achilleus' before so I was a bit confused haha.

[big-bang-theory]

(Original post by The Lyceum)
That's an epic form of the name in Greek Akhilleus, Achilles is a Latinisation via a West Greek and then Etruscan. Like a large amount of Grecian imports into Latin.

That looks like those random statues you find in Plaka and Greek islands etc. I have a notebook, in a similar vein, which lists Homer amongst the Greek philosophers haha.

Tbf the Greeks themselves certainly had a more blurred line about philosophers than we did until at least Aristotle's Poetics.

[beesbees]

Masters all set to go, signed a house contract in Plymouth today (unable to find a suitably nautical themed emoticon!).

[Aemiliana]

I bought my Reading Latin books today. Work is boring me and my brain is turning to mush, so I thought I'd start studying properly. Seeing as I'm not allowed in the library right now...

[The Lyceum]

(Original post by big-bang-theory)
Tbf the Greeks themselves certainly had a more blurred line about philosophers than we did until at least Aristotle's Poetics.

Oh I see your point if you want to talk Greece ancient rather than modern, but even so that is kind of pushing it. I'd say that re: Homer and genre Richard Martin's work is essentially the closest to/biggest influence on my opinion.

[placenta medicae talpae]

(Original post by Aemiliana)
I bought my Reading Latin books today. Work is boring me and my brain is turning to mush, so I thought I'd start studying properly. Seeing as I'm not allowed in the library right now...

I was working next to that library for a while earlier this holiday, for the AQA -- assuming you're talking about the uni of Manchester library, just off Oxford Road.
It's quite a nice place, and that winding path which is half-grass and half-concrete strips is fun to walk along

I don't understand why you aren't allowed in the library though

[Aemiliana]

(Original post by placenta medicae talpae)
I was working next to that library for a while earlier this holiday, for the AQA -- assuming you're talking about the uni of Manchester library, just off Oxford Road.
It's quite a nice place, and that winding path which is half-grass and half-concrete strips is fun to walk along

I don't understand why you aren't allowed in the library though

AQA didn't want me. That's new(ish), it was a **** hole a year ago.

I'm on an interruption, no library for me.