{"id":5734,"date":"2017-10-09T12:55:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T16:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5734"},"modified":"2017-10-09T12:55:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T16:55:24","slug":"weekly-round-up-10-9-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/10\/09\/weekly-round-up-10-9-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Round-Up, 10-9-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corelings! Get out of bed! Put away your laundry! Clean up those mugs of tea that are littering your dorm (your roommate(s) will thank you)! It&#8217;s a new week, and we have a brand-new, classes-free day to enjoy. Let&#8217;s get going.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An inscription in the ancient language Luwian, written on a 3,200-year-old stone slab, has recently been deciphered, providing information surrounding a kingdom by the name of Mira and a Trojan prince called Muksus who was responsible for a number of military campaigns. There is, however, some concern that the inscription, now lost and available only in copies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/60629-ancient-inscription-trojan-prince-sea-people.html\">may be a forgery<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The world premiere of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.londontheatre1.com\/news\/184852\/production-images-released-from-the-world-premiere-of-gilgamesh\/\">Piers Beckley&#8217;s retelling of the<em>Epic of Gilgamesh<\/em><\/a>, this time as from a queer perspective, takes place this month, running from October 10-21 at the White Bear Theatre in Kennington in London.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.londontheatre1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/gilgamesh-poster250-min.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"290\" alt=\"A poster for Gilgamesh (the play, not the original epic).  (via LondonTheatre1)\" class=\"\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster for <em>Gilgamesh<\/em> (the play, not the original epic). (via LondonTheatre1)<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Step up your paper-writing game, scholars. John Milton is waaay ahead of you. According to <em>Paradise Lost<\/em> lore, the poet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/wisdoms-sister-paradise-lost\/\">received the poem from his &#8220;celestial patroness&#8221; Urania<\/a> during the night and would dictate and revise it in the morning. Did this female voice&#8211;imagined or not&#8211;influence cases of proto-feminism in Milton&#8217;s narrative? (And is<em>Paradise Lost<\/em> technically plagiarism? Administration would like a word with you, Milton.)<\/li>\n<li>While researchers fret that children recognize more Pokemon than plants or animals, author Robert Macfarlane explores the magic and power of names, including the ways that they allow us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/sep\/30\/robert-macfarlane-lost-words-children-nature\">to identify with the things we encounter<\/a>, taking after a John Keats quotation: &#8220;If a sparrow come before my window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.&#8221; (PS, the illustrations accompanying this piece are worth a look.)<\/li>\n<li>Turns out everyman Walt Whitman loved him some opera. In fact, the author credited opera as a massive influence in the creation of collection Leaves of Grass. Composer Matthew Aucoin, meanwhile,presents a new opera, <em>Crossing<\/em>, centered on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/29\/arts\/music\/walt-whitman-leaves-of-grass-opera-crossing-aucoin.html\">Whitman&#8217;s service as a volunteer nurse during the Civil War<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/10\/01\/arts\/01WHITMAN1\/01WHITMAN1-blog427.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"295\" alt=\"Whitman, c. 1854, shortly before publishing Leaves of Grass.  (Via Library of Congress)\" class=\"\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whitman, c. 1854, shortly before publishing Leaves of Grass. (via Library of Congress)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Feeling refreshed? Accomplished, maybe? Ready to jump into the day? Get out there, Corelings. Enjoy your day off!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corelings! Get out of bed! Put away your laundry! 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