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Translations: the Devil spoke English | Simonides
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Reflections about ancient Greek poetry and how to teach it and other things too…. Translations: the Devil spoke English. Speshlz: serve ice cold. Where he tries to render the poem “almost word for word without Rhyme according to the Latin Measure, as near as the language will permit.”. It’s in that light that I present two different Scottish translations. Glasgow poet Tom Leonard gives a Glaswegian version of this famous poem by William Carlos Williams:. This is Just to Say. Jist ti Let Yi No. Tae the th...
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Election thoughts: part 1 | Simonides
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Reflections about ancient Greek poetry and how to teach it and other things too…. Election thoughts: part 1. OK, here we go. Some election thoughts. Peter Snow and his swingometer. Trident: expensive, pointless and wrong. Maintaining some conventional forces, just in case, in the way in which every country does;. NATO (i.e., the broader American umbrella). 8220;What really worries me about modern Europe is that Germany and Italy and Spain and Denmark are undefended because they don’t have an Indepe...
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Useless studies and measuring Impact | Simonides
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Reflections about ancient Greek poetry and how to teach it and other things too…. Useless studies and measuring Impact. His picture of Cicero reading by Vincenzo Foppa is in the Wallace Collection in London. A print hangs in the library of the Institute of Classical Studies, where I researched my PhD, which (like sport and Trident) has little discernible socio-economic value. 8221; for the REF. What’s the REF? Blame Thatcher: I always do. Starting with the good news:. The bad news is “Impact”. 8220;Staff...
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Simonides | reflections about ancient Greek poetry and how to teach it – and other things too… | Page 2
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Reflections about ancient Greek poetry and how to teach it and other things too…. 8220;I hold it towards you”: lyric, absence and my absent laptop. October 18, 2009. Keats death mask. I found this photo here: http:/ www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2008/february/the-somnambulists. Read the rest of this entry ». Useless studies and measuring Impact. October 12, 2009. 8221; for the REF. What’s the REF? Read the rest of this entry ». September 28, 2009. Read the rest of this entry ». September 15, 2009.
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Paleography at King’s College London | Simonides
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Reflections about ancient Greek poetry and how to teach it and other things too…. Paleography at King’s College London. Distressing news concerning the possible impact of the rapidly approaching financial crisis for universities is announced by Mary Beard. King’s College London. Is apparently considering doing away with its Chair in Paleography (the only one in the UK). The start of the gospel according to John, in the Codex Sinaiticus, most of which is in the British Library. Dear Prof. Trainor,. B) it ...
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Royal Holloway: Classics in trouble | Simonides
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Reflections about ancient Greek poetry and how to teach it and other things too…. Royal Holloway: Classics in trouble. On Tuesday evening, the news started to break and travelled fast that Classics at Royal Holloway University of London. Was in trouble. On Thursday, it was confirmed in a statement released to the classicists’ email list by Anne Sheppard, their head of department:. Proposals for cuts affecting the Department of Classics and Philosophy at Royal Holloway. Letters of support will be very wel...
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Addendum re Impact | Simonides
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Reflections about ancient Greek poetry and how to teach it and other things too…. There is a good piece in this week’s TLS. About impact, by Stefan Collini (on “impact,” cf. my previous post. I particularly like his emphasis on two points:. Participation rates in higher education were 43% in 2007/8, while the government aspires to a figure of 50% (an arbitrary figure: why not 45%, or 55%, or 60%? This entry was posted on Sunday, November 15th, 2009 at 1:38 pm and is filed under Politics of education.
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Royal Holloway: support the students, and avoid violence | Simonides
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Reflections about ancient Greek poetry and how to teach it and other things too…. Royal Holloway: support the students, and avoid violence. Since I last posted (a long time ago…) I have moved universities… And I have another post I wanted to make… But in the mean time, something more urgent:. Here is the text of another email which I have just sent to Prof. Paul Layzell, Principal of Royal Holloway. His email address is principal@rhul.ac.uk. To support these brave students, have a look at their blog here.
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Election thoughts: part 2: two cheers for PR | Simonides
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Reflections about ancient Greek poetry and how to teach it and other things too…. Election thoughts: part 2: two cheers for PR. More thoughts about the election. Two cheers for PR;. Or, Robin Hood and the Labour Party. The question of PR is suddenly relevant for two (closely related) reasons:. First, the Lib Dems are doing much better than usual, and PR has been one of their policies for ages. In fact, the expenses problem has been solved anyway, by virtue of the fact that expenses now have to be publish...
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About | Simonides
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Reflections about ancient Greek poetry and how to teach it and other things too…. My name is Richard Rawles, and I am a classicist, presently working as a lecturer in the University of Edinburgh. I have a particular interest in Greek poetry. You can look at my biog. webpage at the university. I have in mind to post (not too frequently) on a mixture of subjects, some political and cultural and some more closely related to my work as a teacher and researcher in classics. Royal Holloway: Classics in trouble.
