View the film about Francesca Tataranni’s discovery and interpretation of artist Irene Siegel’s fresco visually interpreting the Aeneid for her time (1985) painted in the community room of the Sulzer Library, a branch of the Chicago Public Library in the Lincoln Square neighborhood. The film recounts the artist’s process,  offers a deep reading of  the painting and addresses the controversy it sparked.

https://vimeo.com/370411809

Celebration of Kate Bosher’s Research

The Archive for the Performance of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford and Northwestern’s Classics Cluster will jointly host an online event on June 7, 2021 (5 p.m in Britain,  & 11:00 in Chicago) in celebration of the publication of Kathryn Bosher’s Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily (Cambridge UP 2020), edited by Edith Hall and Clemente Marconi and prepared for publication by LaDale Winling. Speakers include Edith hall, Clemente Marconi, Sara Monoson, Justine McConnell, Patrice Rankine and Fiona Macintosh.  Some discussion of Kate’s part in launching the Classicizing Chicago Project  and what we have now named “The Bosher Collection” will also be part of the event.

Watch it live on the APGRD’s You Tube channel.    https://youtu.be/X-jV16ubT9w

 

 

Vote for our own, Ancient Rome in Chicago, a nominee for the 2019 Award for “Best Use of Digital Humanities for Public Engagement”

Projects are nominated by and voted on entirely by the public. These awards are intended to help put interesting DH resources in the spotlight and engage DH users (and general public) in the work of the community. There are no financial prizes, just the honor of having won and an icon for the website.
To vote for ARC and/or other projects in this and other categories, please visit the link below (and share it!).Voting  can be found at the bottom of the webpage and is open until March 1, 2020  http://dhawards.org/dhawards2019/voting/

The Chicago Homer, a multilingual database that uses search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek, continues to attract many users.

The Chicago Homer   Hosted by Northwestern University Library. Edited by Martin Mueller, Professor Emeritus of English and Classics, Northwestern and Ahuvia Kahane, formerly Professor Classics at Northwestern and now professor of Classics, Trinity College, Dublin.