Latest Internet resources added to Intute: Arts and Humanities Classics gateway
Intute: Arts and Humanities presents the 15 most recent Web resources for education and research added to our Classics gateway
- Thucydides : reception, reinterpretation, influence
This website is a very basic description of a series of AHRC-funded workshops which brought together scholars from different disciplines to discuss the way ancient Greek historian and thinker Thucydides “has been read, studied and reinterpreted since the eighteenth century”. The workshops were held in 2007 at the Universities of Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge. - 'Desmi' Centre for Ancient Greek Drama
This is the website for the 'Desmi' Centre for Ancient Greek Drama. Desmi is an international organisation founded in 1975 with its headquarters in Athens and is subsidised partly by the Greek Ministry of Culture. The centres main aims are to promote theoretical study and research in ancient Greek drama and its interpretation and dissemination. The website contains information about the centre and its members. Activities run by the centre include research and academic documentation, practical applications and seminars, symposia and performances. The Centre has two databases which would be of interest to drama students. The first database searches Greek professional performances from around 1991 to 2000, as well as school performances. One can search by title, author, performance title, troupe or year. The other database allows users to search press cuttings. - Apuntes de Egiptología
Apuntes de Egiptología is a free and full-text online journal published by the Centro de Estudios del Antiguo Egipto and edited by the late Prof. Jorge Roberto Ogdon. The yearly journal publishes short referenced papers in several languages (primarily Spanish, English and French) and on any subject related to ancient Egypt, including archaeological and text-based studies. Some papers have illustrations; most are available as Web pages, with a few available in PDF format. Although the contents are reliable, the presentation of the contents does not look professional: the journal is the effort of a group of scholars to circulate their work and keep alive Egyptology in Argentina. This should not be considered a problem and it is hoped that after the death of the editor the journal will continue to be published. The journal also publishes timely reviews. Researchers in particular may find this journal useful. - Didaskalia : ancient theatre today
'Didaskalia: Ancient Theatre Today' (ISSN 1321-4853) is an English-language web resource that combines an online full-text journal with short introductory essays. There are also listings and links to ancient theatre resources online. The online journal, published sporadically since 1994, covers modern performances of Greek and Roman music, drama and dance. At September 2008 there are 21 issues available online. Each issue carries a mixture of features, performance and book reviews. Themes have included: Masks; Tantalus; Electra; crossing the ancient stage; Homeric epic; contemporary research trends and electronic initiatives in ancient theatre studies. Contributors to the journal have included scholars and theatre professionals. This is a useful resource for anyone interested in ancient theatre in general or in its modern performance and reception in particular. - Classical receptions in late twentieth-century drama and poetry in English
This is the website of the project on Classical receptions in late twentieth-century drama and poetry in English, a website hosted by the Open University. The network in charge of the project was formed in 2004 as a collaboration between UK universities with research specialisms in classical reception studies. The project has been established to document and analyse the theatrical and literary surge of interest in Greek texts and drama in the late twentieth century. The website includes further information on the research project. One can read critical essays, the online journal New Voices in Classical Reception Studies, archived reports of the e-seminar series and see details of upcoming events and conferences. One can search the drama database (one needs to register first) by theatre companies, Greek and modern authors, plays, themes and reviews. - Masks for Menander : imaging and enactment
This is the website of an AHRC funded project which is imaging 3D ancient mask miniatures relating to the New Comedy of Menander and create full size reproductions. The aim is to explore the “innate dramatic properties of the ancient artefacts” and demonstrate their inherent theatrical qualities, giving a new insight into the way these qualities were exploited by ancient dramatists, combining “literary, dramatic and iconographic approaches to Greek New Comedy”. The website includes a short section of project news and publications, informative video clips exploring the project in more detail and a lists of technical standards the project has employed. - Ancient Egypt magazine
The Ancient Egypt Magazine is a journal concerned with the study of Egyptology. The editorial board is made up, mostly, of Egyptologists from the University of Manchester. The magazine is mostly concerned with the description of artefacts and museums, the articles are geared towards the lighter side of the subject. The articles are written by highly acclaimed scholars in the subject area and cover a wide variety of topics, such as the reconstruction of the life of an Amun priest of the Twentieth dynasty or the non-destructive investigation of mummies. The website contains free online versions of back issues of some of the magazines from volume 1, issue 1, 2000, and forward; the complete text of the older issues and from the newer, contents and text to a varying degree. All back issues have, however, freely available book reviews and lists of links to websites that are deemed to be useful for the readers. This resource is useful for students of Egyptology and anyone interested in the subject area. - Rhetorical review : the electronic review of books on the history of rhetoric
Rhetorical Review, edited by Dr Pernille Harsting, is an electronic journal that publishes book reviews of new publications on the history of rhetoric. It is the result of international collaboration of specialists in the field of rhetoric.The journal was launched in June 2003 and is published three times a year in February, June and October. Publications reviewed cover all aspects of the history of rhetoric in various languages. All reviews are written in English. All back issues are archived and available full-text. There is an cumulative A-Z listing of authors and editors of books reviewed plus an A-Z book title listing. - Papyrus of Ani : Egyptian Book of the Dead
Papyrus of Ani; Egyptian Book of the Dead website is a translation of the ancient Egyptian book of Going Forth by Day, more commonly referred to as the Book of the Dead. The translation was made by the famous English Egyptologist Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857 - 1934). The text is a funerary text that was used during the New Kingdom in Egypt and is based on Old Kingdom pyramid texts and the coffin texts from the Middle Kingdom. It describes the journey of the dead through the nether world and is thus an important source of information about the concepts of death during this era. The website consists of the translated text from the papyrus of Ani which is dated to the 19th Dynasty of the New Kingdom in Egypt. The text contains, in addition, alternative sections from other papyri with the same or similar texts. This is a useful resource for anyone interested in Egyptology or the religions of the ancient world. - Women and gender in ancient Egypt
The Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt website is an online version of an exhibition at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan, between March 14 and June 15, 1997. The exhibition was curated by Terry G. Wilfong, associate professor of Egyptology at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan and consists of artefacts from the collections of the Kelsey Museum and the University of Michigan Library. It examines the lives and roles of women in ancient Egyptian society. It appears that women had higher status and were able to hold higher offices in ancient Egypt than what was possible in later Greek and