Monthly Archives: February 2021
MASSOLIT Classics
The following is a description from MASSOLIT Classics about their offerings:
Founded by Oxford Classicist Chris Tudor back in 2013, MASSOLIT is a website that contains a huge collection of short video lectures (8-10 minutes each on average) in Classics and Ancient History aimed at high-school teachers and their students.
Chris has filmed and edited all these videos himself, working with leading Classicists from around the world, including: Barbara Graziosi (Princeton), Simon Goldhill (Cambridge), Edith Hall (KCL), Paul Cartledge (Cambridge), Robin Osborne (Cambridge), Emily Hauser (Harvard), Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck), Angie Hobbs (Sheffield), and many others.
The site currently covers more than 100 topics. This includes lectures on Homer, Sappho, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Plato, Menander, Plautus, Terence, Catullus, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Tacitus and Pliny. Our YouTube channel features some of our most popular lectures: http://bit.ly/YouTube-MASSOLITCLASSICS
Short, sharp and intellectually rigorous, these lectures are perfect for use in the classroom, as a homework exercise, or for teachers wanting to expand their own subject knowledge/keep up to date with the latest research in the field.More than 700 schools around the world already make use of MASSOLIT, and currently two-week, no obligation free trials are offered here.
Some of our most popular Classics courses include:
Classics in the news
It has been a busy few weeks in Classics-related news. Here is a roundup of some of the articles that have come to our attention (and is not necessarily comprehensive). Note that some pieces may be behind a paywall.
- He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?
- Dan-el Padilla Peralta thinks classicists should knock ancient Greece and Rome off their pedestal — even if that means destroying their discipline.
- Why Classical Studies Needs Scholars Like Dan-el Padilla Peralta
- Objections to his work and views are misplaced.
- If Classics Doesn’t Change, Let It Burn
- The field as is doesn’t deserve to persist. But scholars are hard at work improving it.
- Opinion: Why I won’t surrender the classics to the far right
- Virgil’s Aeneid Gives Hope to Totalitarians after Failed Capitol Attack
- Ancient Rome Has an Urgent Warning for Us
- The era of the Antonine Plague offers a reminder of what a powerful force nature has been throughout human history.