Hi all, I hope everyone is doing well. I’m looking forward to plugging back into this community, where I’ve been posting on and off for about two decades now.
It’s been a while since my last post; probably just after I wrote about my short philosophical dialogue in ancient Greek on Antigone ( Socrates Redux: Antigone Competition Winners – Antigone ). Since then, I’ve been busy with a lot of classics projects.
A couple of highlights: I’ve had the chance to visit the wonderful Latin school in Frascati more than once, and to practise speaking Latin there and with ex-students afterwards. They were extraordinarily generous: hosting me for amazing lunches (even when not a student), performing a concert almost just for me, and inviting me to sit in on their classes. It’s a remarkable institution. I’ve also acquired a researcher’s card in Paris, so I can now consult handwritten manuscripts from before 1500 whenever I’m passing through Paris.
A few people have asked me over the last few years to share my ongoing classics projects. It occurred to me it would be just as easy to post them online, in case others are interested too.
The first one isn’t very scholarly: just a bit of fun. I’ve used about nine layers of AI, plus my own manual glossing (drawing on Quinn’s commentary and others), to set Catullus and other poets to modern musical styles. There’s a wide range of styles, since I made different ones for different people who requested them. These have been my “gym mixes” for a while now, and I’ve shared them informally with various people who asked me. It struck me that it would be just as easy to put them on YouTube instead. Here are the first ones I’ve just uploaded:
I’ll put some more “serious” projects online over the coming week or so. That includes a full-length philosophical dialogue in ancient Greek (I believe it is the first full-length original philosophical dialogue written in ancient Greek in about 600 years) in the style of my Antigone piece, but much longer and on an original philosophical theme. I’ve also written a new ars loquendī on an entirely new plan, that seems to work well and that I’m happy to put online, along with a large collection of “sight reader” volumes (now well into the triple digits) that others have found helpful and that I’ll post shortly.
Looking forward to hearing what everyone else has been working on and reading.
Cheers, Chad