October 27, 2011 at 9:51 am
- “Triremes were built to kill. You can’t have fun on a trireme. You can’t water-ski behind one. You can’t hold an afternoon BBQ on one. You can’t do anything but kill on a trireme.”
- “Why did the Athenians beat the Persians? Because the Persians showed up to the wars with wicker shields. Wicker. The Persians showed up with Pier 1 armor.”
- “What do you know about Sparta? Leather underwear (because you have all seen that terrible movie. Look, even the Greeks didn’t wear leather underwear and do you know why? Because chafing is a universal concept, scholars.”
- “The poets said Pericles’ head was shaped like a ‘sea-onion’. I don’t know what a sea-onion is but you don’t want your head to be shaped like one. It’s not a good look.”
- “Some gods like their wine poured on the ground because that’s how they like it: dirty. It’s good to be a god.”
- “Assembly of Citizens is the most important organ of the polis. Are we going to war? This is the types of issue the Assembly directly voted on. Imagine that… You came into this place thinking democracy is great for you have freedom to vote, to occupy. Because we are the 99%.”
As recorded by Core office employee Winona Hudak during Prof. Jay Samons’ discussion of Athens in the 5th century at the October 18th CC101 lecture.
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Posted in Core Lecturers
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October 26, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Mighty indeed are the marks and monuments we have left. Men of the future will wonder at us, as all men do today.
- Pericles
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Posted in Analects
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Tagged CC101, Greece, Kleiner, Parthenon, Pericles
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October 26, 2011 at 9:44 am
A Halloween scavenger hunt through the galleries and graveyards of Boston. Prizes will be awarded to the first three teams to complete the journey! Organized by the Core Curriculum in CAS. Grab some friends, create a team, and join us in the Core office on Saturday morning, 11 am, to begin. You can email the Core staff to register in advance if you like.
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October 26, 2011 at 8:29 am
- “When you go into the Acropolis, why are all the great buildings off to the left? In the archaic day there was the greatest temple erected right before you. This was the temple the Persians burned down and which prompted Pericles and the Athenians to rebuild.”
- “Despite the agony on the centaur’s face, the whole sculpture has a grace and refinement to it. It reminds me of the movements of a Spanish matador and the restrained skill he possesses.”
- “No expense was too great to build the Acropolis. In fact the temple itself was not the most expensive part but rather the forty-foot statute of Athena made of gold that was housed.”
- “Never before has a sculpture attempted to mimic real space, to depict the effects of weather and the environment upon an inanimate marble form.”
- “To make the building more perfect instead of being perfect, they had to add a slight curvature to the structure so that the human eye perceived perfection.”
- “How in the world did they pay for all this? Rising ambitions of Pericles made him transfer the wealth of the Delian League to the coffers of Athens where he used the surplus funds to build the Parthenon. Believe me, no one was too happy with the Athenians because of this.”
As recorded by Core office employee Winona Hudak during Prof. Fred Kleiner's discussion of the Athenian Acropolis’s during this week’s CC101 lecture.
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Tagged Acropolis, architecture, Art, CC101, Greece, Kleiner, lectures, six quotes
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October 26, 2011 at 7:48 am
Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them. The present is burthened too much with the past.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Tagged Analects, Art, CC101, Greece, Hawthorne, Parthenon
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October 25, 2011 at 11:18 am
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Posted in Analects
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Tagged Analects, Art, CC101, Emerson, Greece, Parthenon
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October 25, 2011 at 10:50 am
The 2011-2012 issue of The Journal of the Core Curriculum is now accepting submissions. Authors and artists are welcome to submit any kind of Core-related essays, artwork, photography, shortstories, creative pieces, and/or poetry. Accepted submissions will be featured in Issue XXI alongside pieces works by faculty and alumni. Back issues can be viewed online at http://bu.edu/core/journal.
The editors are especially interested in essays and artwork which explore in whatever way the themes and topics explored in the Core Natural Sciences. Submissions can be emailed as attachments to corejournal@gmail.com; questions can be emailed to editor Megan Ilnitzki, milnit@bu.edu.
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October 24, 2011 at 2:26 pm
LECTURES THIS WEEK
- CC101: Fred Kleiner on the Art & Politics of the Acropolis (10/25)
- CC105, Tuesday: Integrating Forum on the nature of reality (10/25)
- CC105, Thursday: Alan Marscher on the Big Bang (10/27)
- CC201: Michael Zell on the art of Velàzquez (10/25)
- CC203: David Swartz on Adam Smith (10/27)
SPECIAL EVENT THIS SATURDAY. Join the Halloween-themed Core scavenger hunt, "Mummies, Ghosts & Graveyards." Teams will compete by visiting locations in galleries and graveyards throughout Boston. The hunt begins at 11 AM on Saturday morning, October 29th; teams will meet in CAS room 119. Prizes will be awarded to the first three teams to complete the journey. (See flyer attached.)
TOMORROW, Tuesday 10/25: Fair Trade Symposium at the GSU in celebration of Fair Trade month. Green Mountain Coffee will be presenting on their Fair Trade practices, and distributing samples; a sampling of Ben & Jerry's Fair Trade ice cream will follow. 5-7pm in the GSU Back Court; RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=253102831403086.
- Tuesday, 10/25: Core Floors & Core House pumpkin-carving party. 6 PM at 141 Carlton Street. For information, email emmaro@bu.edu.
- Wednesday, 10/26: Meeting of the Ecofest planning committee. 5 PM in the Core office; for questions, contact hudon@bu.edu.
- Thursday, 10/27:The Boston-based Greek Music Ensemble will be performing Greek music on traditional instruments, at 7:30 PM in the Tsai Center.
- Friday, 10/28: Screening of Mel Gibson's "Hamlet" for the students of CC201; all other students, and alumni, are welcome as well. Dinner will be provided. 6 PM in CAS room B-36, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. For information, contact jlf@bu.edu.
- Ongoing: The editors of the Core Journal are now reviewing submissions for the XXIst edition, to be published this spring. Email essays, creative texts, images, and queries to corejournal@gmail.com.
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October 24, 2011 at 10:08 am
In view of Prof. Fred Kleiner's lecture this Tuesday on the art and politics of the Greek Acropolis, this week's analects all concern the Athenian Parthenon.
You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness.
-- Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer and politician; first female Minister of Culture
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Tagged Analects, Athens, CC101, Greece, Parthenon
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