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Join us tomorrow for an exciting conversation about a soldiers life in Ancient Rome

Mark your calendars! Next Friday (November 20) at 3:00-4:30 PM Conor Whately will be giving our next New Directions talk, "The Soldier's Life in Ancient Rome". ...The new format is a shorter talk with more time for questions and Dr. Whately is happy to answer all your questions about the Roman military. Register now at the link: https://buff.ly/32ztOKP See more

Join us, New Directions in Classics, Friday, November 20, 2020 at 3:00 pm on Zoom, and invite your friends, for a conversation with Dr. Conor Whately about The Soldier's Life in Ancient Rome. Please email us at pj.miller@uwinnipeg to register.

Dear all, Please join us for this week’s Liverpool Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology Work in Progress Seminar, ‘Briseis, a Passive Mobile Entity: Body and Mo...vement as Symbols of ‘Otherness’ in the Iliad’ by Giulia Roncato (Trinity College Dublin). This seminar will be held on zoom, please email Rachael Cornwell ([email protected]) or Daniel Lowes ([email protected]) for the link. Abstract: Briseis is both a woman and a slave. Her ‘dual otherness’ has received deep attention from scholars, who have analysed the theme from different perspectives. My aim is to contribute to this wide discussion through the methodology of Cognitive Linguistics. Particularly Cognitive Grammar and the concept of Embodied Image Schema will offer fruitful analytic tools for investigating Briseis’ otherness. The present paper will focus on Briseis’ movement (kinaesics) and body conceptualisation as they are represented through the lens of ‘us’. Firstly, I will show that Briseis moves WITHIN the macro-world of ‘us’ (the Achaeans’ space) and BETWEEN the micro-worlds which fragment it (the warriors’ individual spaces). Moreover, Briseis’ kinaesicsmakes her what I have called a passive mobile entity: whereas the opposite micro-worlds are fixed, she links them through her transfer from one to another. Secondly, since a movement implies to own a body, I will show that Briseis’ corporeal substance is mobile as well. Finally, I will prove that the precondition for Briseis’ kinaesics and her bodily conceptualisation is her weightlessness. The character’s otherness is therefore depicted through three linked semantic domains: 1) OTHERNESS AS A PASSIVE MOBILE ENTITY 2) OTHERNESS AS A MOBILE CORPOREAL SUBSTANCE 3) OTHERNESS AS WEIGHTLESSNESS

Exciting news! The Primary Latin Project has provided funds to make the second Minimus workbook available as a free download! Get it here: https://www.primarylatinproject.org!