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För mycket att göra, sålunda några tips blott:

- Lunds universitet erbjuder i höst vad som verkar vara en helt fantastisk kurs på förskarnivå; Introduktionskurs till förmoderna studier I: äldre texters förmedling. Kursen ges på halvfart under veckorna 44-48 och omfattar 5 hp, anmälan senast dne 25 september. Titta bara på de ljuvliga momenten:

- Introduktion: Antik bokhistoria och filologi
samt epigrafik i antiken och medeltiden (1 hp)
- Bokproduktion och handskriftsbeskrivning
(kodikologi), Grekisk, latinsk och nordisk
skriftutveckling (valbara lektionspass) (2 hp)
- Textutgivning och textkritik, inklusive
nytestamentlig textkritik (2 hp)

- Göteborgs universitet erbjuder i vår en kurs i epigrafik på plats i Rom! Tre veckor i den eviga staden, fantastiska lärare, och minst lika ljuvliga moment.

- Sortes-idolen och Vergilius-kännare Bernard Knox har tyvätt avlidit:

"After training as a parachutist, he fought with a special force organized by the O.S.S., the British and the Free French to coordinate elements of the French Resistance with advancing Allied troops after the Normandy invasion. He also instructed members of the French Maquis in the use of explosives.

The O.S.S. later sent him into northern Italy for an equally dangerous mission with the Italian underground, and it was there that he rekindled his passion for the classics. Holed up in an abandoned villa, he discovered a bound copy of Virgil and opened it to a section of the first Georgic that begins, “Here right and wrong are reversed; so many wars in the world, so many faces of evil.”

Professor Knox recalled, in “Essays Ancient and Modern,” “These lines, written some 30 years before the birth of Christ, expressed, more directly and passionately than any modern statement I knew of, the reality of the world I was living in: the shell-pocked, mine-infested fields, the shattered cities and the starving population of that Italy Virgil so loved, the misery of the whole world at war.”

He continued, “As we ran and crawled through the rubble I thought to myself: ‘If I ever get out of this, I’m going back to the classics and study them seriously.’ ”