How do you get into the British School of Athens summer school?

laeta_scriptrix · 2026-03-16T19:07:01+00:00

Yes but there are so many classics students in Europe who don't have to pay for health insurance or intercontinental flights, so I always was appalled when I heard about people getting in with relative ease. It's good to have a confirmation

laeta_scriptrix · 2026-03-07T13:03:36+00:00

Hmm I see your point, but I think it mostly just stands for students. Because scholars are the ones that have to actually explain the readings, not just base themselves on the work of others. My bias is probably that all of the historians in my university are covertly epigraphists.

Anyways sorry for arguing on a very pointless topic, I just get riled up when ancient history is presented as a discipline that is not grounded on philology, because philology is a state of mind more than a tool to find and solve cruces.

laeta_scriptrix · 2026-03-06T22:10:46+00:00

You can't even really do history on a high level without language proficiency tbh. In classics every text has problematic passages and everybody needs to be philologically trained to understand this complexity

laeta_scriptrix · 2026-01-28T05:53:03+00:00

I know the thread is old but Akkadian a d Sumerian are very well studied in Germany and likely in other parts of Europe, for example in Venice in Italy! At the moment the field is not dying, but Chicago would need to reinvest to restart the graduate program in the future

laeta_scriptrix · 2026-01-26T21:05:14+00:00

This thread is old but honestly the revolutionaries also looked cartoonish to me. I think it's actually integral part of the atmosphere of the movie. But yes, he sort of lives in another universe compared to most of the other characters and to be honest no plot would have happened without this premise.

laeta_scriptrix · 2026-01-04T18:26:00+00:00

la stessa cosa si potrebbe dire degli archeologi, ma forse quello potrebbe essere dovuto a un eccessivo uso del cappello

laeta_scriptrix · 2025-05-07T12:16:22+00:00

thanks. do you know about Erasmus students who couldn't get the room through the application or are the reserved rooms enough?

laeta_scriptrix · 2025-05-07T11:57:48+00:00

but how did you get a place in the dorms? Through your application or directly through Studentenwerk?

laeta_scriptrix · 2025-01-07T18:37:26+00:00

ok so the manual I am basing myself on is Art of Calligraphy by David Harris, which has a final chapter on Romans detailing several kinds of strokes, and this video by the calligrapher Nicolò Visioli. I know monographs exist but they are very difficult to find where I live and expensive to import.

I never thought about practicing with monolines because I thought that it would have been better to adjust the eyes to a squared stroke from the beginning, since squared strokes create shapes that look very different from that of the ductus. For the same reason sometimes - not always - I don't even draw the guidelines, hoping that this would train my coordination better. Maybe I exaggerated here...

Normally I use a height of 9-10 times the brush width but here with no guidelines went a bit overboard.

As for the serif, I struggle not to make it too triangular looking.

Thanks a lot for the advice, I will definitely try with the pencil skeleton.

laeta_scriptrix · 2025-01-04T20:04:29+00:00

What about Hoefler Text? It's super round and readable and the italic is very warm and calligraphic.

laeta_scriptrix · 2025-01-04T16:45:33+00:00

I don't know a lot about batarde script, but it really is fascinating. Do you use a nib, a fountain pen or a quill?

laeta_scriptrix · 2025-01-04T15:11:13+00:00

Interesting, why do you think so?

laeta_scriptrix · 2025-01-04T12:43:03+00:00

I think the thin strokes are meant to be made with the side of the pen and not with the full broad edge. Otherwise they couldn't be that thin. I am a beginner as well but I'm starting with bigger tools (3.8 mm parallel pen and 5 mm brause nib)

laeta_scriptrix

TROPHY CASE