Archive: May 2015

RSFAT archaeological field school 2015


The RSF Archaeological Trust is pleased to invite students to take a part in our extended deadline sessions which are open till the end of June 2015. We're glad to accept applications for the following projects:

Recently read

Παπαϊωάννου, Χρ. “Γεωργοοικονομική έρευνα της κωμοπόλεως Αρναίας.” Δελτίον Αγροτικής Τραπέζης Ελλάδος 5, no. 2 (1940): 146–87.

KW: history; agriculture; environment; Greece; interwar

FELLOWSHIPS: Advanced Seminar in the Humanities 2015– 2016 (VIU)

Advanced Seminar in the Humanities 2015– 2016
 
Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome, and the Near East
 
From November 23 to December 4, 2015 Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, in cooperation with Venice International University, will offer an advanced seminar on “Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome and the Near East”.

The Program 

Recently read

Farmer, Paul. “The Caregivers’ Disease.” London Review of Books, May 21, 2015 (http://bit.ly/1QJfL7Q, accessed 14 May 2015).

Παγουλάτος, Γιώργος. “Το Κούγκι Της Παιδείας", Καθημερινή (10 Μαΐου 2015) http://bit.ly/1H5Ht7V

Favourite malaria quotes

“Considering how best to spend their limited funds, the Italians had fallen back on intensive quinine therapy, a time-honored resource with a history of 300 years of continual defeat.”
L.W. Hackett, “Once Upon a Time. Presidential Address,” American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 9 (1960): 110-11.

Favourite malaria quotes

“Ἡ ἐλπίς νά γίνουν κύριοι τῆς γῆς, καλυπτούσης τά ὀστᾶ τῶν ἐπί αἰώνας προσδοκησάντων τήν ἡμέραν τῆς ἀνεξαρτησίας προγόνων των καί τῶν ὑπό τῶν ἐνδημικῶν πυρετῶν κατ ἔτος δεκατευομένων τέκνων των, ἦτον συντελεστικωτέρα εἰς τό νά μή περιπέσουν εἰς μαρασμόν καί εἰς πλήρη ἐκφαύλωσιν ἤ ἡ παρουσία ἱερέως, μηχανικῶς τελοῦντος τά τῆς θρησκείας, κατά τά λοιπά δέ ὁμοίου των κατά τήν ἀμάθειαν καί ἀνικάνου νά μεταδώσῃ τήν ἱεράν παρακαταθήκην τοῦ θείου λόγου, τοῦ ἀνυψοῦντος τό πνεῦμα εἰς περιφρόνησιν τῶν ἐφημέρων κακῶν τοῦ παρόντος βίου καί παρασκευάζοντος αὐτό εἰς τήν ἀπόλαυσιν τῶν ἀϊδίων ἀγαθῶν τοῦ …

Landscapes of disease: first couple of lines

On a fine day in April 1829, a group of French scientists, members of a scientific expedition exploring the Morea, were approaching the town of Filiatra, in the southwestern Peloponnese. To their great surprise, a band of musicians ...