Aug 22, 2022
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Being a student of philology is really hard sometimes...
Well, most of the time.
//cool subjects I'm taking this term
Last week the registration period has ended and all my courses this term re officially official. I'm taking 66 credits, so I certainly have a lot on my plate, but the classes I'm taking for my minor are super interesting (my maiior classes for this semester are kinda meh, but you can check my main @tea-inquiries, for the post about them or my chinese langblr @chinese-maiior just for fun) so I thought I would share.
Latin Grammar II
This one is pretty self-explanatory, Latin minor requires learning Latin and that's all there is. I have barely passed the last term due to my maiior being extremely demanding so this time I'm focusing on staying. on the top of the things.
Reading Seminar (Caesar)
For me to take my Latin state exam and get my degree I have to read certain books, some of them translated, some of them in Latin and Ceasar is the first of them. We are reading the entirety of the sixth book of Commentarii de Bello Gallico and let me tell you, it's not fun.
Introduction to Classical Philology II
I took the first part of this course last term and this time we're focusing on medieval Latin. It's only an hour once a week but we are doing a lot of reading and writing because thesis writing is one of the main topics in this course.
Introduction to Linguistics
I signed up for this course thinking it would be fun but the lecturer is honestly pretty bad speaker and trust me, I never sat in a classroom this quiet. He speaks in a super quiet and monotone voice and takes breaks in unnatural places, but I kept the course since it seems pretty easy and next year I'll probably be taking Chinese Linguistics and having some background would be beneficial.
Renaissance Humanism
This one is so much fun. it is indeed an epitome of studying humanities but I love it. We read a lot, discuss stuff in class, look at obscure art all that jazz. The doctor teaching us very engaging and his English accent makes my knees weak so yeah...
Study camp
Every year Department of Classical Studies organizes a week getaway to focus on your field of study somewhere in nature. The doctorand teaching us was very eager about us signing so we all did. We are going to focus on reading Caesar, do a theatre workshop and probably read Harry Potter in Latin.
Ancient Greek Literature II
Last term, Ancient Greek lit was a required course and it was a lot of fun since the docent is clearly very passionate about the subject so I decided to sign up for a continuation. The course is pretty chill, you just come in and listen about ancient authors since it is accompanied by an online course where all the info is comfortably laid out for you. It is also and recommended prerequisite for Roman Literature course so its a win-win situation.
Old Church Slavonic
You might be thinking I have clearly overshot with this one and you would be right since I have no background in Slavic languages and this a postgrad course but whoops. it sounds like so much fun and really really interesting and is a cool thing to say. Since I'm taking a lot of credits this term I can fail this course and not have to retake it if I have to move around my priorities which is comforting, so I'm just here to have a good time.
A fragment of De Pythonissa by Methodius of Olympus (d. ca. 300), and more, discovered in Old Slavonic
A fragment of De Pythonissa by Methodius of Olympus (d. ca. 300), and more, discovered in Old Slavonic
Every so often I come across a splendid piece of scholarly work; work that makes me want to stand up, and cheer, and shout “look at this!!!”. I’m thinking of work that could only be done by a professional scholar of great skill, great linguistic ability, and massive determination. Such an experience came my way today with an 2020 article by Alexey A. Morozov, in Russian, who is preparing to edit…
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What patristic authors are extant in Old Slavonic?
What patristic authors are extant in Old Slavonic?
An interesting volume came into my hands lately: Regarding your question as to what patristic works have been translated into Old Slavonic, the best resource to check with is a catalogue of the Old Slavonic texts prepared by a group of Russian scholars two years ago: Katalog Pam’jatnikov drevnerusskoj pismennosti XI-XIV vv. (rukopisnyje knigi), Studiorum Slavicorum Orbis (Saint Petersburg:…
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HMML microfilmed manuscripts in Syriac and Christian Arabic
HMML microfilmed manuscripts in Syriac and Christian Arabic
The Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, under Fr Columba Stewart, has been photographing manuscripts in the East for quite a few years now, and creating microfilms of them. How necessary this work is, has been shown graphically in recent weeks by the barbaric destruction of Assyrian monuments in Iraq by Muslim thugs, apparently out of sheer savagery.
This evening I learned by accident that the…
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