Ben Revkin


Digital Loeb Classical Library

At CANE, we’re always trying to enhance your teaching and learning experience. That’s why we are now offering our members access to the Loeb Classical Library On-Line. Now you have access to all the translations you know, and can access them easily via our website. Have a pesky problem with a passage, and the notes in the textbook ignore it (as happens all too frequently)? You can look up the translation and then explain it to your students – or discount Loeb’s version and decide that the way you had originally thought it should be translated was right after all! This resource is especially helpful for Greek, since trying to find things on Perseus in Greek can bring on a major anxiety attack – and they don’t have Babrius there, anyway.
Using the Loeb does take a bit of practice, but there are 2 articles that will help greatly: Resource Review: Digital Loeb Classical Library
https://classicslibrarian.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/resource-review-digital-loeb-classical-library/ The other is available through JStor: Review Essay: On First Looking into the Digital Loeb Classical Library: HelmaDik,The Classical Journal, Vol. 110, No. 4 (April-May 2015), pp. 493-500.  If you want the password for either or both JStor and Loeb, and your membership is paid up (2015-2016 – membership form on the website), email treasurer@caneweb.org and I will send the password to you. Happy hunting!


Announcements for September 5

Welcome back to a new school year! CANE is always looking for new and interesting posts. If you are interested, contact one of our Editors through this page.

CANE

  • The Emporium Romanum has lots of great things to start of the new year!
  • The next deadline for CANE’s Discretionary Grant is October 1st.  The application deadline for the Barker and Means Scholarships is December 1st.

BEYOND CANE

Events

  • The Classical Association of Massachusetts (CAM) is sponsoring a bus trip for Latin from Boston and Western Massachusetts to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, on Saturday, October 3. The museum visit will feature an optional 2-hour spoken Latin tour of the collections hosted by our active Latin expert and CAM Vice-President, Prof. James Dobreff of UMass Boston.  For more information, visit the CAM website or register here.

Meetups

  • Live in western MA or northern CT and want to practice speaking in Latin? There is a large group that meets weekly in Hadley, MA! For details, contact TJ Howell.
  • In the Boston area? Check out the Active Latin Meetup page for events.

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