Congratulations.
How does that go Thucydides? You possibly couldn’t know all that stuff you described, from highschool? Are you moving from one university to another?
Or are classics and philosophy taught so rigorously in the UK?
How does that go Thucydides? You possibly couldn’t know all that stuff you described, from highschool?
Gosh, I feel all big-headed now.
Congratulations!!!
that’s amazing thucydides, all that stuff you had to do and know just to get into uni, but i guess that’s why you’re going to oxford whereas i went to, wherever 
And what resources did you use for this? I have Sihler’s magnum opus, and I recently got Fortson’s Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics), which I just love (Sihler is a little overwhelming, frankly).
Hey, I thought UNSW was considered to have the best law school in the country. 
Umm… never mind. 
hi eureka, that’s true or at least arguable but when i think back about uni i think of the arts degree not the law one. now that i’m interested in classics my arts feels a bit too hollow, i did an extra hons year in philosophy in leibniz and kant but never really studied the works of plato and aristotle properly through my degree, just here and there. i’m completely biased now of course in favour of the greek stuff, but i just imagine that something like that couldn’t happen at a big uni like oxford. could be wrong though.
one thing that i remember is going back to our lib to find some plato in greek, once i could read a bit after finishing uni. went to the phil section and there was the full set of OCTs for plato and aristotle lined up, i opened them and the spine crackled upon being opened for the 1st time. all the other books were grimy from years of use but the core of western phil in the original sat there unused… i’m sure the plato OCTs are well used at O.
One hopes they get better copies than they sell to everyone else.
That’s very sad 
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Huge congratulations, dear Thucydides, from a fellow Oxonian! I must say, the selection process seems a lot more rigorous than in my day (though we did have to do special entrance examination exams, as well as the interview). The jokey myth about entry into my college (St Edmund Hall, which in those days was very proud of its athletic prowess), was that the interviewing dons would pass you a rugby ball: if you caught it, you were in; if you passed it back, they awarded you a scholarship. Well, my own interview wasn’t quite that easy, but it was much more informal and chatty than the process you have had to go through.
Please do continue to post, and let us know how you are getting on.
Again, humungous congratulations, and well done!
Phylax
Again, congratulations Thucy!
Sihler, Palmer, Vox Graeca and Latina, “Historical Linguistics” (Campbell), “A Practical Introduction to Phonetics” (Catford)
topics: ablaut, assimilation, phonetics, reconstrcuted pronunciation, dissimilation, quanitative metathesis, loss of PIE *y, *s, *w, dialect differences…
but only at a pretty basic level!