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Upcoming Events
10th of October
The Herodoteans Book Sale will be taking place next Monday (the 10th) from 12 to 4 pm, which is the perfect opportunity for you to buy some of the books you will need this year for a cheap price. We cannot guarantee how many or which books will be for sale, as that naturally all depends on the people bringing them in, but each year we have more books than actually get sold so do come and have a look!
To sell a book simply write your name and the price you want for it on the inside and drop it off at the Faculty Library desk. Money you earn by selling books will be sent to you via UMS for small amounts or can be collected from us in the Faculty for large amounts. The books that did not get sold will be returned to the Faculty desk for you to pick up.
All books have to be brought to the Faculty Libary Desk by Saturday the 8th!
If any questions should arise, do not hesitate to contact me on rpjed2@cam.ac.uk. Please note that the Faculty Library desk is just a drop-off point and they will NOT be able to answer any question you might have regarding the book sale.
Do bring in any books you no longer need as it benefits both the years below you as yourself!
11th of October
Simon Goldhill will be signing his new book "Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity" in the Heffers Bookstore this Tuesday 11th of October.
"Looking at Victorian art, Goldhill demonstrates how desire and sexuality, particularly anxieties about male desire, were represented and communicated through classical imagery. Probing into operas of the period, Goldhill addresses ideas of citizenship, nationalism, and cultural politics. And through fiction--specifically nineteenth-century novels about the Roman Empire--he discusses religion and the fierce battles over the church as Christianity began to lose dominance over the progressive stance of Victorian science and investigation. Rediscovering some great forgotten works and reframing some more familiar ones, the book offers extraordinary insights into how the Victorian sense of antiquity and our sense of the Victorians came into being."
More information on the book can be found here: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9579.html
2nd of November
A Classics Mingle will be organized by the Herodoteans for all years of Classics including postgrads, postdocs and teaching staff. It will be the perfect opportunity to meet the new Classics freshers as well as catch up with friends from the Faculty after the long summer holidays.
There will be sumptuous amounts of wine, cheese and nibbles. The event starts at 5.30pm and ends at 7. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
19th of October
Michael Squire is launching his new book "The Iliad in a Nutshell" at 6.30, also in the Heffers book store. The book is a 'A new, illustrated study of the Iliac tablets, a group of objects inscribed in miniature with epic episodes. Like the tablets themselves, Michael Squire tackles major themes through small ones, by relating their production to macroscopic problems of signification in Graeco-Roman antiquity.'
More info on the book can be found here: http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/The_Iliad_in_a_Nutshell/9780199602445
25th of October
There is Heffers Classics Evening taking place at 6.30pm on the 25th of October in celebration of the Oxford University Presses Classics list.
On the night there will be wine and nibbles, as well as discounts on OUP Classics books. There will also be talks by Christopher Kelly on the Roman Empire, Paul Cartledge on Ancient Greece, Michael Squire on the Iliad and Mary Beard on Classics in general.
The two Loebs for £25 offer from the previous Classics evening is also still in effect, so if you need to buy your Loebs, buy them now!
Rest of Michaelmas 2011
The Herodoteans are currently looking into the idea of having a Latin Formal! This would be a formal where only Latin can be spoken, however dictionaries would be allowed.
We are also looking into having a Toga Party soon where wine, nibbles, cheese, grapes and music would be present.
For more information on these events keep an eye on this calendar. Emails will also be sent out to all lists once dates and locations for these events are finalized.
The Herodoteans: University of Cambridge Classics Society
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