Classical Conferences and Meetings in 2014
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NB: As best as possible, we also note presentations by B-C authors.
CANE—Classical Association of New England Annual Meeting
March 7–8, 2014
St. Anselm's College
Manchester, NH
Representative: Donald Sprague
Presentations:
Friday, March 7
- "Order Matters" Jocelyn Demuth, author, Mendax: A Latin Card Game
- "Philoctetes the Hedgehog" Kenneth Kitchell, coauthor and series coeditor, Catullus: A LEGAMUS Transitional Reader
Saturday, March 8
- "Aristoi Achaion: Best of the Greeks" Bonnie Catto, author, Lucretius: Selections for De rerum Naturam, Latin Mythica, and Latina Mythica II (forthcoming)
- "Oral Storytelling in the Latin Classroom" Jocelyn Demuth, author, Mendax: A Latin Card Game
CAMWS—Classical Association of the MIddle West and South110th Annual Meeting
April 2–5, 2014
Baylor University
Waco Hilton and Courtyard by Marriot
Waco, TX
Representatives: Allan and Marie Bolchazy, Bridget Dean, Donald Sprague
Presentations:
Thursday, April 3
- "Animals and Rites of Passage in Ancient Athens" Kenneth Kitchell, coauthor and series coeditor, Catullus: A LEGAMUS Transitional Reader
- "Reclaiming Ovid in Statius’ Silvae" Carole E. Newlands, author of the forthcoming BC Latin Reader An Ovid Reader: Selections from Six Works
- "Who was Marcus Caelius?" Jane W. Crawford, coauthor, A Cicero Workbook
- "Ovid’s Tristia 1.5 and 1.9: On the Issue of Unity" Helena R. Dettmer, coauthor, A Catullus Workbook; coeditor and contributor, Latin for the New Millennium, Level 3 and Latin for the New Millennium Latin 3: Select Latin Enrichment Readings
Friday, April 4
- "Romans, Gods, and Historians: A Look at Livy and Caesar" T. Davina McClain, author, Graphic Greek Grammar Cards
- "Menander on the Big Stage: Dyskolos in the Theater of Dionysus" Wilfred E. Major, coauthor, Plato: A Transitional Reader
- "Reading Proficiency in Latin: How to Teach It and How to Measure It" Sherwin Little, columnist for eLitterae
Saturday, April 5
- "Singing Sappho, from the Intimate to the Grandiloquent: Musical Settings of Sappho" Philip V. Barnes, conductor, Rome’s Golden Poets CD of choral selections
- Workshop: "Helping Students Make Connections Between Latin Texts" LeaAnn Osburn, coeditor and contributor, Latin for the New Millennium, Level 3 and Latin for the New Millennium: Latin 3 Select Latin Enrichment Readings; Donald Sprague, editor Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers and faculty Kennedy-King College; Elza Tiner, Lynchburg College
- "Mid-Century Modern Monarch: Swords, Sandals and Cleopatras" Gregory N. Daugherty, coauthor, To Be a Roman
49th International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 8–11, 2014
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI
Representatives: Laurel Draper and Adam Velez
ACL—American Classical League
June 26–28, 2014
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA
Representatives: Allan and Marie Bolchazy, Bridget Dean, and Laurel Draper
NJCL—National Junior Classical League 61st Annual Convention
July 28–August 2, 2014
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Representatives: Allan Bolchazy and Laurel Draper
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With the launch of Dr. Bolchazy’s Myth Is Truth radio broadcast, we encourage you to download, for free, one or as many installments as you wish. Perhaps you’ll prefer to do one a month as we present them in each issue of eLitterae for 2014.
Don't Throw the Baby out with the Bathwater the Meaning and Purpose of Demythologizing
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Infantry
Beware the false etymology! An episode of Law and Order SUV has Detective Elliot Stabler in an episode about children soldiers in Africa explain that the term “infantry” comes from the Latin infans because Romans placed children in the frontline of their armies. While the Romans did place their youngest soldiers aged 17 in the frontline, the Latin for infantry, as we know is pedites. The English word “infantry” Merriam-Webster tells us came into use in 1579 derived from Old French and Old Italian.
Hannibal
Oscar winner Halle Berry is collaborating with the History cable channel to develop Hannibal, a miniseries. Berry will serve as executive producer while Jeffrey Caine (The Constant Gardener and Goldeneye) will pen the script. The series will begin in Carthage in 264 BCE and follow Hannibal through the Second Punic War.
In a statement, Berry asserts “Hannibal is not only the greatest African general to ever live, he may have been the greatest general, period. His story is an intricate and captivating ride, and I’m thrilled to get this project off the ground with our partners at History.”
The miniseries will explore the special relationship between Hannibal and his Roman opponent, Scipio Africanus—archenemies sworn to destroy each other and the nation each serves—but also two men who come to respect each other as brothers.
[Adapted from Chicago Tribune A + Notes December 4, 2013]
This sixteenth-century fresco, along with three others attributed to the Bolognese Jacopo Ripanda that illustrate Rome’s Punic Wars, decorates one of the rooms of the Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome. Today, the palace on the Capitoline Hill houses one of the Capitoline Museums.
A Teacher’s Influence
HBO ran a December special production Six by Sondheim that explored Sondheim’s full corpus by emphasizing the development of six signature songs. Latin teachers, inveterate lovers of words and language, should catch it when HBO reruns it as Sondheim provides fascinating insight into his composition process. To whet your appetite, check out http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/six-by-sondheim
In a discussion of teaching, Sondheim declared that for him teaching was a necessity that he couldn’t live without. When asked about influential teachers in his life, Sondheim cited his mentor Oscar Hammerstein and his high school Latin teacher.
The Ashmolean’s Season’s Greetings
Classicists will love this terrific holiday greeting from Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. Famous artifacts and objets d’art come to life! Check it out!!
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All of us at Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers wish you well for the New Year! May 2014 bring you personal and professional satisfaction. May your students grow in the mastery of their skills.
Chicago, recently nicknamed “Chiberia,” began the year slammed with snow and cold. We all learned the term “polar vortex” as an arctic cold swept across the country. It’s not too late to use this term as a “teachable moment.” Recall Aeneid 1.116–117 ast illam ter fluctus ibidem torquet agens circum, et rapidus vorat aequore vortex. While the term delighted etymologists, entomologists were pleased to announce that the severe cold could kill off such bugs as the emerald ash borer beetles that have been slowly destroying ash trees across the country.
A number of the B-C staff attended the APA Plenary Session at the annual meeting to witness firsthand as the APA honored the late Dr. Ladislaus “Lou” Bolchazy, our beloved founder, with its Distinguished Service Award. For details, check out the APA/AIA report.
With this first issue of 2014, we are pleased to add a special feature to eLitterae—each issue this year will include an installment of Lou Bolchazy’s Myth Is Truth radio broadcasts. We hope you enjoy these and invite you to share them with your classes.
Donald Sprague
Editor
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American Philological Association and American Institute of Archaeology Joint Meeting 2014 Report
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After a series of rather mild winters, Chicago became a winter nightmare as it welcomed classicists from near and far to the annual APA/AIA conference held January 3–5, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. Flights to Chicago were delayed; flights were cancelled; attendees came late; attendees arrived battered; attendees and presenters were forced to cancel. Despite these challenges, however, determination and perseverance won out and the conference was a success.
The Hyatt Regency Chicago overlooks the Chicago River and across to the Magnificent Mile. Note how the photo by day captures the arctic cold!
Four Bolchazy-Carducci employees, Bridget Dean (managing editor), Don Sprague (editor and coordinator for high school outreach), Marie Bolchazy (president), and Allan Bolchazy (vice president) staffed the book exhibit. B-C secured a double booth in a good corner-of-aisle location. The display was arranged to highlight new titles (seven fresh from the printers in December and nine others over the course of 2013!), Latin for the New Millennium, and the BC Latin Readers. The arrangement of the display allowed folks to browse comfortably. The high-top table featuring top sellers and all the new titles readily caught the attention of passersby.
The BC Readers received prominent display along the aisle. To promote the BC Latin Readers, we organized a drawing. The winner would receive a full set of the readers. James Pezzulo of the Classical Magnet School in Hartford CT won. Participation was robust requiring us to make additional copies of the form and prompting plans to repeat the giveaway in the future—keep your eye out!
The uncorrected proof of 20 Greek Stories attracted a great deal of interest. Bridget spoke with a number of professors interested in this resource written to accompany Hansen and Quinn’s or any other introductory Greek book. Modeled on the popular 38 Latin Stories, this forthcoming reader presents selections, drawn from Appian, Apollodorus, Herodotus, Hesiod, Homer, Lucian, Plato, Sappho, and others, paired to the grammar and vocabulary of the 20 units of Greek: An Intensive Course. Bridget enjoyed consulting with Dr. Mark Alonge from Boston University Academy who is piloting the new text with his high school Greek students.
A high-top table at the corner of the booth prominently displays new titles like Latin Synonyms for Latin Lovers; Ecclesiastical, Medieval, and Neo-Latin Sentences (an ancillary for Wheelock users); and Reading the Gospel of St. Matthew. In the back, a browser consults with Bridget Dean.
Steady traffic to the exhibit kept the B-C staff on its toes but folks managed to attend several APA sessions. Marie checked out “Travel and Geography in Latin Elegy” as it featured BC Reader authors Alison Keith (A Latin Epic Reader) and Paul Allen Miller (A Tibullus Reader) as presenters. Don attended the “Presidential Panel on the Future of the Liberal Arts” and was pleased that Teresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, resolutely demonstrated that ideas triumph over technology in her talk entitled “Disruptive Ideas vs. Disruptive Technology.” Marie joined Latin for the New Millennium coauthors Milena Minkova and Terry Tunberg in their roundtable discussion on the aural/oral components of LNM. They showed how the LNM aural/oral component focuses on literature and prepares students for their future readings. Terry also averred that students learn better when they speak and hear a language. Alianmah Karas from Hunter College complimented the College Exercise Book, which she uses for homework. It helps that some of the answers are provided so that students can gauge whether or not they are on the right track. Bridget attended the session entitled “Classics and Reaction: Modern China Confronts the Ancient West” to learn about the role of Latin in China’s universities.
A number of awards were presented at the plenary session: two pre-collegiate teaching awards, one collegiate teaching award, one outreach award, three Goodwin Awards of Merit, one Distinguished Service Award (posthumous award to Bolchazy-Carducci founder, the late Dr. Ladislaus “Lou” Bolchazy), and one President’s Award. These were given out in the first part of the plenary session. The honoree would be called to the presentation area, the citation would be read, and then the presentation would be formally awarded. In the case of Lou’s award, Marie was asked to step forward and she and Allan jointly accepted it. The medal is beautiful with a Greek inscription that translates as, “Letters (or literature) are (is) the medicine for the soul,” the motto of the APA. The Distinguished Service Award, acknowledging extraordinary service to the profession of classics and the American Philological Association is awarded occasionally as appropriate. The citation is posted on the B-C website.
Marie was thrilled that so many B-C colleagues attended, some with spouses or partners, and understood that the weather precluded the attendance of others. Also ten Rotarians from Barrington made the trek. She was also touched by the number of B-C authors and friends of B-C who carved time to attend the award presentation. Lou received a standing ovation, the only awardee so honored.
The extended Bolchazy-Carducci family poses after the special APA Distinguished Service Award. Front: Allan Bolchazy (vice president), Marie Bolchazy (president), Bridget Dean (managing editor) with daughter Lizzie and husband Adam. Back: Jim Keenan (husband of editor Laurie Haight Keenan), Don Sprague (editor), Paul Mallatt (Allan’s partner), Laurel Draper (editorial assistant) and husband Jack, Carolyn Bernardi (customer service specialist) and husband Giovanni. Not pictured but in attendance: Jody Cull (production and eLearning manager) and David Fiedelman (business manager).
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Myth Is Truth: A Radio Series
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Each issue of eLitterae in 2014 will include one of Dr. Lou Bolchazy’s discourses on myth. Myth Is Truth, a series of interviews with Dr. Nancy Boyle as host and Dr. Bolchazy as comparative mythology scholar, was broadcast by WLUC, Loyola University Chicago, in 1977, and by WRRG, Triton College, in 1978. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers takes great pleasure in providing these as free downloads for classicists and students of mythology across the globe.
Overview
From Bolchazy-Carducci's archives comes Myth Is Truth, an introduction to comparative mythology by our founder, the late Dr. Ladislaus "Lou" Bolchazy. In the course of this radio series, Dr. Bolchazy deconstructs the familiar stories of the Judeo-Christian religions into their mythological roots, "demythologizing" them so that we can access the values and symbols that lie at the center of Western civilization. Each episode in the series focuses on a different theme in religion, with a focus on revealing the truths behind myth. Examining the common symbols that permeate human culture, Dr. Bolchazy creates an engaging experience perfect for anyone interested in mythology and anthropology. Myth Is Truth provides not only an accessible way to discover the foundations of the Western tradition, but also a way to discover the foundations of Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. Myth Is Truth represents the best of Bolchazy-Carducci's commitment to "A Better Future through the Lessons of the Past."
Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater: The Meaning and Purpose of Demythologizing
In this first episode of Dr. Bolchazy's Myth Is Truth, a series from Bolchazy-Carducci's archives, we explore the reasoning behind taking the myths out of the Judeo-Christian Bible to enhance our understanding of both modern religions and the religions of the ancient world. Join Dr. Bolchazy as he unearths the truths that exist within myths and discusses their philosophical implications. Dr. Bolchazy puts forth a compelling argument for reading scripture in the deeper, mythological context that informs the way we understand our religions, without discarding the ideas that form the foundations of our faith. While Dr. Bolchazy assumes a Judeo- Christian audience, the principle of understanding how myth informs a religion is applicable to other traditions as well.
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As I have recently attended the ACTFL Convention, and we at ACL are busily planning for the annual Institute, it seemed appropriate to reflect on professional involvement and how professional networking can help you as a teacher. Even if it is not in your personal budget or your school’s budget to attend the meetings, you can readily contribute to the profession in other ways. For example, you can serve your school as a mentor for new teachers or you can serve on one of your school’s many committees. However, this month we will focus on involvement with the wider world of classics teachers.
Join
From my earliest time as a teacher I made sure to join national, state, and local organizations. I always joined the classical associations, and when I started working as a department chair I made sure to join the Ohio Foreign Language Association and ACTFL, the national organization for foreign language teachers. I have never regretted any of the money spent on these memberships. Not only does your dues money sustain the organization’s mission, but your very membership shows the strength of classics in your city/state/region.
Meetings
Professional meetings offer participants a wide variety of opportunities. The foremost is the opportunity to attend sessions that feature scholarly and pedagogical topics. Organizers work hard to put together diverse and interesting topics for their sessions. Attending these meetings is reenergizing by itself, but definitely consider giving a presentation. The national and regional organizations normally have a review process, so watch for deadlines about submitting proposals. Read the guidelines carefully but don’t let them keep you from submitting an idea. If you get a rejection, revise and try again.
Another important benefit is networking. Teaching is often a very solitary profession, and for classicists it is intensely so. No matter how supportive your mentors or your modern language colleagues are, if you are the only Latin or Greek teacher at your school, you still feel alone. When you attend a conference, you’re surrounded by other Latin teachers! There is no equivalent to sitting at a table during a break with your new Latin teacher friends talking about an issue that has been bothering you for a while, or helping a colleague by sharing your own experiences. You forge the friendship with the face to face time and you strengthen it afterwards via email, Skype, or social media. Social media readily facilitates developing an ongoing professional friendship with a colleague and supporting each other.
Always visit the exhibit area at any meeting you attend. It’s usually a hub of activity, and the vendors dearly want to talk with you. They want you to be able to see their materials and to ask your questions. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers and others also want to hear from you and learn what you would like to see them develop. Publishers want to fill the needs of the profession, but if you don’t talk with them, they won’t as readily know what those are.
Attending your state organization will likely be easier and less expensive than attending the larger meetings. The national and regional organizations move their meetings around the country—that makes them more costly. However, many organizations provide scholarship money for members, especially for first timers, to attend conferences. Of course, when the larger groups meet in your city or state, the costs are not as great for you.
Committees
Every organization relies on an army of volunteers who give their time and expertise to help the organization flourish. Many committees function electronically and do not require your attendance at a meeting. It may seem that committee members are exclusively the more experienced teachers. Committees that deal with financial matters understandably have members with experience in the organization. Most other committees welcome teachers who are early in their careers as members. I can tell you from personal experience that our organizations try to get a balance of committee members representing different genders and geographic location as well as teaching level and experience.
Check out the committee structure for one organization to which you belong and find a committee that appeals to you and requires a time investment that fits your personal circumstances. Email the chair of the committee indicating your interest. There may not be a position open at that time, but you have made your interests known.
By helping to evaluate scholarship applications, to plan a program, or to help with a publication, you are contributing to the profession in a profound way.
Publications
We are all familiar with the scholarly publications that our different organizations publish. If you have an area of scholarly interest and you write a paper that could become an article, prepare it and submit it. You can find the guidelines for submissions on each journal’s website. Your article may not be accepted, but you are likely to receive valuable input on how to improve the article.
But don’t forget that there are places where less academic writing is encouraged. Look for journals that feature articles on pedagogy. Some teachers have given presentations at meetings, and then turned their presentations into articles. Others have taken an article and expanded and adapted it for a presentation. Contact the editors and see if they are interested in your topic. ACL regularly receives and considers teacher-made materials for publication. Bolchazy-Carducci has been enthusiastic about working with teachers to see if their ideas would be marketable for publication or would be appropriate for the B-C Agora online marketplace for teacher materials. I cite only these two because they are the ones with which I am most familiar. CANE and other regional organizations, however, also publish materials, so just look around! You have something important to say, and you can find a place to say it.
I have only scratched the surface of this topic. The relationship between the classical organizations and general foreign language organizations is a topic for another column. I hope I have encouraged you to start exploring professional organizations in your city, state, and region, if you haven’t yet done so.
As always I enjoy hearing from you. My electronic door is always open.
Sherwin Little
Editor’s Note: Check out the following regional and national organizations.
ACL - American Classical League
AIA - American Institute of Archaeology
APA - American Philological Association
CANE - Classical Association of New England
CAAS - Classical Association of the Atlantic States
CAMWS - Classical Association of the Midwest and South
CAMWS Southern Section sponsors a biennial conference
CAPN - Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest
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Resources & Teaching Tips
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 Pompeii a new movie opens in theaters beginning February 21. "A slave turned gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him." Visit the site for stills, a trailer, and more.
We’re pleased to share two assignments adapted from those author Sylvia Gray uses with her students. One encourages reflective reading and the other introduces students to reading primary sources. Download the reproducible assignments.
Reflective Learning
How often do you hear a student assert that she "must study harder" or that he has to "study more"? Unfortunately, all too often, these genuinely determined students do study harder and do study more. However, their extra efforts are often misdirected! Too often, they devote equal review and study time to those concepts they have already mastered and to those with which they experience difficulty. Teachers can help these students work “smart” as well as work “hard.”
After each test review, require students to do a tally and an analysis of their errors. What kinds of errors are they making? How many instances of those kinds of errors? Students will note that they missed subject/verb agreement four times, that they messed up the forms of possum, that x number of Latin words have eluded their active Latin vocabulary. Based on this analysis, students can then develop their own "action plan" for improvement. "I must pay better attention to subject/verb agreement; I must master the conjugation of possum; I need to make flashcards for this set of vocabulary words." This exercise will help students develop self-assessment skills.
Build on this self-assessment activity and have students write a self-evaluation and action plan mid-quarter or mid-semester. See the sample I have used in my community college teaching adapted from those I used with my college prep students. A self-evaluation at the end of the marking period prepares the student for the reality of her grade and those letters or numbers no longer come as a "surprise" created by the teacher.
Now, with the second semester, have your students do a self-evaluation of their first semester work and create an action plan for improvement in the second semester. If you have not done something like this before, you will find it edifying how spot-on students' personal insights can be. And, you'll be helping students develop a skill that will serve them for life.
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Technology Integration in the Latin Classroom
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 6:00–7:00 PM EST
Presenter: Lynne West
Integrating technology in the Latin classroom is a powerful way to increase student achievement and augment engagement. This one-hour webinar will address several ways that current technology can enhance and enliven the Latin classroom. Participants will have the opportunity to explore web-based tools that are valuable additions to both the elementary and advanced Latin curriculum. We will address methods and tools for building vocabulary, teaching language skills, and integrating history and culture. The focus will be on using free or inexpensive web-based tools that work on various computing platforms to create media-rich lessons. Participants will come away with a deeper understanding of both the role that technology can play in the classroom and how to integrate it effectively.
Lynne West serves as chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose, California. For the last 13 years, she has taught all levels of Latin and is much respected for her success incorporating technology in the classroom. She has served on the faculty of the Taft Educational Center offering "21st Century Technology in the Latin Classroom." West earned her masters in Classics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and her BA in Ancient Greek and Latin from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Rebuilding Rome
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 6:00–7:00 PM EST
Presenter: Nicholas Young
Drawing on ancient literary and historical sources as well as the material record, this webinar discusses the significance of Augustus's rebuilding Rome—the power of its message, its programmatic nature, and its enhancement of Augustus's status. Young insightfully provides contemporary parallels to the Augustan renovations.
Master teacher Nicholas Young has taught for over forty years, the last twenty at the University of Detroit Jesuit High School. He is also an instructor at the University of Detroit Mercy. He has done studies at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, in Latin with Fr. Reginaldus Foster in Rome, and archaeological field work in Tuscany through Wayne State and Northern Kentucky State University. He was state chair for the Michigan Junior Classical League for ten years and has served two terms as president of the Michigan Classical Conference. Currently, he serves as president of the Detroit Classical Association. He was awarded the 2006 Glenn Knudswig Award from the University of Michigan as Teacher of the Year and was recognized as an American Classical League Emeritus awardee in 2013. Nick is the author of several articles and the book Instant Answers. He served as a consultant for the Latin for the New Millennium, Level 3 texts.
Reviewing the Caesar Selections Using Themes and Essential Questions
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 6:00–7:00 PM EST
Presenter: Mary Pendergraft
One of our most popular webinar presenters, Professor Pendergraft has been much praised for her webinar presentations on the new AP Latin curriculum. This discussion of the Caesar selections will serve as a good resource for teachers preparing to conduct review activities with their AP students. Teachers will be equipped to use themes and essential questions for reviewing the Caesar selections and readily able to apply the same process to the Vergil selections.
Mary Pendergraft is a professor of classical languages at Wake Forest University where she serves as faculty sponsor for Eta Sigma Phi, the classics honors society. She was honored by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) this past spring with an Ovatio, the organization’s highest award for service to CAMWS and the Classics profession. CAMWS celebrated Pendergraft’s efforts promoting the study of Latin in North Carolina and throughout the United States and for her work as Chief Reader for Advanced Placement Latin (2007–2011). In 2011, she was the recipient of the American Classical League’s Emerita Award. Pendergraft is a regular presenter at the ACL Institute and for various AP Latin workshops and conferences. She earned a PhD and an AB with honors in Greek from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Caesar's Blood: The Burdens of the Julio-Claudian Legacy
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 6:00–7:00 PM EST
Presenter: Rose Williams
This story and others like it can help us and our students gain insight into historical events. Our students need to realize that the people they encounter in Latin class actually lived and faced problems, just as they do. They also need to realize that the best biographers, even those who knew the persons well and who wrote brilliantly, can still give us only their own view of the people they study. Caesar's Blood, like the ancient histories of Sallust and Tacitus, tells the story of famous people facing the events of daily life and recreates what they might have thought and said, based upon what they actually did.
Rose Williams has taught Caesar for over thirty years in college and high school. She has authored over twenty books and maintains a popular website, www.roserwilliams.com. She is coauthor of A Caesar Workbook and Caesar: A LEGAMUS Transitional Reader. She authored Julius Caesar: Master of Surprise and Caesar's Blood: Greek Tragedy in Roman Life as accessible resources for high school Latin. Williams holds a BA from Baylor University and an MA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and did postgraduate work in Latin and the humanities at the University of Dallas and the University of Texas at Arlington. On a Rockefeller Grant, Williams did research at the Bodleian Library of Oxford University and at the University of Pisa, Italy.
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Special Discount for eLitterae Subscribers
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Ask the Ancients, a new book from Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, is an engaging way to introduce students to the perspectives of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Written in the style of a newspaper advice column, chapters address issues ranging from what to serve at a dinner party (ostrich would make for a memorable meal) to whether the world is going downhill (Hesiod certainly thought so).
Because each chapter of Ask the Ancients is based on one or more classical sources, this book provides a great starting point for students interested in learning more about particular aspects of the classical world. Author Sylvia Gray shared with us two assignments she uses with her students. Click here to check them out.
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