The Classics Society Mk II

Is this the new thread? *creeps in from behind the curtain* ALL HAIL NEW THREAD!

Aaaanyway, I'm going to take a module outside of Classics next year -before you all burn me at the stake, or perhaps more aptly BURY ME ALIVE... well not technically apt, since I am not a guardian of any flame as far as I'm aware... I digress...

French, Italian or something else?

My French is A-Level + standard; my Italian is beginners' but I have many languages under the proverbial belt!

Also on a helpful-ish note, I'm doing two separate modules on Suetonius. WOO!

The thread isn't one of the official Classics society ones apparently, since it can't be managed via the thingy that Smith, I and the other deputies have. Is there anyway to get that moved do you think?

Done

It's under thread tools at the top of this page.

Ha cheers.

Hey just briefly mentioning trajan in my essay on tiberius, was pliny the only contemporary source? Why is he considered better than the contemporary source that talked about tiberius, both are just full of praise...

here, a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velleius_Paterculus

Thanks, but this wasn't my question.
Was Pliny the younger the only contemporary writer of Trajan?

*sigh* no one helped me in my languages issueeee how will I knooowww I can't think for myself...

Also Exeter is mean, only a week to choose modules?!

I'm choosing Roman Religion and Writing Women in Ancient Literature, although first I have to find out why the Greek module I HAVE to take isn't available... Thank god Matthew Wright is my personal tutor, he's like SUPERMAN. But Latin. So... optimus homo?? Sounds too much like a transformer...

So what did you choose (assuming that you already have)? I can't make decisions for myself, so I won't even try to make them for you!

Superhomo sounds fairly decent Latin for 'superman' (after all, the homines optimi were the Roman senators, at least in Cicero's eyes). Since the concept comes from Nietzsche's übermensch and über is a German preposition just like Latin super (used as an English prefix by yuppies, of course). However, I just typed homines optimi into Google and someone had used that for übermenschen in a translation of Neitzsche's Ecce Homo, so, as is my tendency, I'm probably spouting a lot of nonsense. I have realised, via Urban Dictionary, that superhomo has its own, not so nice, meaning in English though, so no, don't call him that!

I'm never telling what it is.

Haha, Urban Dictionary is so interesting. My friends created an entry which I am an example for, but I'm never telling what it is.

I haven't chosen yet, but I have 5 days Fast-track Italian maybe?

Haha, that's what you think!

Well what do you want the language for? if it's for academic purposes, French or German are pretty solid for Classics. Italian isn't overly useful unless you want to delve into Hellenistic Literature, though its very easy to pick up.

If its a "just cause" thing then choose whichever you most feel like.

Eeeeep I have had enough of creepy stalkers, I'm going to hide in a hole...



Ahh well if I'm honest, it's:
a) because I don't like enough of the Classics modules
b) I want something a bit easier
c) I like languages
d) I've done French before/I've always wanted to learn Italian

I don't really want to delve into Hellenistic Literature though