Emily Wilson, 47 Classicist and translator University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia
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His ambitions were to unfreeze the timelessness of classicist compositions.
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Mendelsohn is also a classicist and ancient texts permeate his work.
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For all his out-loud provocation, he is a classicist at heart.
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Macdonald's taste in comedy is, by his own description, formalist and classicist.
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But Mr. Baltrop's a classicist too, just a less self-conscious one.
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But if you are a classicist, there are goodies in there for you.
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A committed, even doctrinaire classicist, Mantegna learned to paint by studying antique marbles.
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A classicist, like a parent, has the expectation of being understood in retrospect.
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But she may be more of a classicist than her aesthetic would suggest.
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Feature The classicist Emily Wilson has given Homer's epic a radically contemporary voice.
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One of the leading ancient font designers is mathematician, computer scientist, and classicist George Douros.
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They're classicist in many ways, but they're executed in the modern styles of computer animation.
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He began as a teenage hip-hop classicist and grew into an experimentally minded aesthete.
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Yet, unlike many such films, "Little Odessa" became known for its classicist restraint and grace.
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She's a Midwestern classicist struggling to master contemporary dance; he's a subway-busking Brit facing deportation.
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She is not the only classicist who has been targeted by the so-called alt-right.
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Emily Wilson is a classicist and translator known for her 2017 translation of Homer's "The Odyssey."
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Now we have an excellent new translation of the epic by the British classicist Emily Wilson.
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The 2019 winners included classicist and translator Emily Wilson as well as criminal justice reformer Lisa Daugaard.
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In turn it now takes Mr. Peck where he has not been before as a dance classicist.
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Even the well-known (and highly respected) classicist Mary Beard became the target of uninformed criticism and trolling.
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"Tempo" shows Elio's widowed father Sami, an urbane classicist, overwhelmed by his own erotic bolt from the blue.
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She is a Classicist, and so it makes sense that she looked to her own field for material.
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In my naïveté, I once asked him whether it was better to be a Classicist or a Romantic.
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The Symbolist poet and classicist Vyacheslav Ivanov worked briefly for Lunacharsky in the theater division of the commissariat.
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Mary Beard, the Cambridge University classicist and reigning authority on Roman history, dismissed the finding out of hand.
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Supreme classicist, supreme modernist and still underrated as a superlative Romantic and dramatist, he remains ballet's dominant figure.
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What would Plato have made of the classicist who appears destined to be Balliol's fourth prime minister since 1900?
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This time, the players are UKIP donor Arron Banks (the 'splainer) and renowned Cambridge University classicist Mary Beard (the 'splainee).
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The eminent University of Cambridge classicist, who has almost 200,803 Twitter followers, was distraught after receiving a storm of abuse online.
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The eminent University of Cambridge classicist, who has almost 200,000 Twitter followers, was distraught after receiving a storm of abuse online.
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The poet and classicist Anne Carson has said that Christensen's omnivorous impulse is matched only by the early Greek poet Hesiod.
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Footnotes The classicist and author of 'How Do We Look' explains what Instagram's most popular photos reveal about our likes (and dislikes).
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As The Rogue Classicist and science historian Darin Hayton point out, the researchers' findings are based on a set of untested assumptions.
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Classicist Mary Beard has suggested that the various Greek texts are too professional and involved too much labor, to be labeled graffiti.
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Classicist Mary Beard has suggested that Pompeii, and indeed most classical sites, are in fact collaborations between ancients and modern excavators and conservators.
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Beyond his omnipresent party tracks, he's also long filtered dance music through a more mature lens—rooted in classicist musicianship and heady improvisation.
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Anne Emery sometimes worked that same earnest side of the street, notably in her four-novel account of Dinny Gordon, a budding classicist.
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The three previous winners are the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, the British philosopher Onora O'Neill and the American philosopher and classicist Martha Nussbaum.
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Coded as street rap, which means trap, Simi represents the gradual shift of trap conventions toward supposedly more classicist virtues: spareness, unflappability, exactitude.
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He was an astute, intricate rapper; as a lyricist he was a classicist in an era that had largely turned away from that style.
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This is the first ballet in which Mr. Peck, so accomplished in the larger structural logistics of choreography, convincingly shows himself a modern classicist.
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En route, Mr. Mangold occasionally resorts to cliché, but many of his choices feel fresh, paradoxically because he has the heart of a classicist.
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The former foreign secretary, classicist and contender for the Conservative Party leadership is going out of his way to prove that he is no rodent.
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Ms. Carson is the esteemed Canadian poet, classicist, professor and translator, known for playfully finding serious links between the ancient past and the evanescent present.
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Images and fragments also appear alongside the text in "Nox," the poet and classicist Anne Carson's intricately constructed illuminated manuscript in memory of her brother.
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A big opportunity, the commission came with restrictions: Mozart was expected to produce an opera more or less in the elevated classicist vein of Gluck.
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One academic leading the discussion is Dr. Kira Jones, a former classicist who earned her PhD in Greek and Roman art history at Emory University.
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Though Shapero learned 12-tone technique from Ernst Krenek, at Harvard he studied with the Neo-Classicist Walter Piston and fell under the influence of Stravinsky.
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But Mr. Shelton, despite earlier experiments, isn't truly interested in genre progressivism — he's a classicist gripping a fifth of whiskey, happily watching everyone around him scramble.
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More recently, Madeline Miller, a classicist and teacher, published "The Song of Achilles": Widely acclaimed and translated, it received the Orange Prize for fiction in 2012.
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THE SHADOW OF VESUVIUS A Life of Pliny By Daisy Dunn If only Daisy Dunn's book had been around back when I was an aspiring classicist.
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IN THE SUMMER of 1987 a crestfallen Boris Johnson went to call on Anthony Kenny, the master of his college, Balliol, and a distinguished philosopher and classicist.
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This year's notable fellows include classicist and translator Emily Wilson, known for her 2017 translation of Homer's "The Odyssey," as well as criminal justice reformer Lisa Daugaard.
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By comparison, Hopkins's version of minimalism marks him as a classicist, whose musical experiments often find elegant ways to update the old templates of house and techno.
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"It has been a true drama; there is a lot that has been lost," said the Dutch classicist David Rijser, an expert on the culture of Abruzzo.
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Oxford classicist Llewellyn Morgan remembers taking a class with Peter Parsons as an undergraduate and asking him ("naively," in Morgan's words) where the Oxyrhynchus papyri were kept.
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Dries Van Noten — a classicist, rather than an avant-garde experimentalist — also used his suits to propose a new silhouette, and hence a new male body ideal.
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A 1753 book on Palmyra by the British classicist Robert Wood included painstaking illustrations of the city's architectural ornamentation, which became a runaway success among British designers.
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A new book by classicist and historian Andrew M. Riggsby investigates the types of information technologies drawn, painted, and inscribed on the surfaces of the ancient Roman world.
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Just a few months ago, classicist Lisa Trentin published a coloring book for adults to learn about polychrome sculpture called Classical Sculpture in Color: An Adult Colouring Book.
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" In his 1692 lecture, Matter and Motion Cannot Think, the English classicist Richard Bentley referred to certain early "Savages" who "were not then, what civilized Mankind is now.
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I'm not sure how any classicist can look at that poster and not feel horrified at its implications for our field, but that's a topic for another day.
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The choreographer Twyla Tharp has been a classicist, a modernist, a postmodernist — often at the same time — and maybe now and then a feminist and a Romantic, too.
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An ardent classicist who anticipates long stretches of boredom on his enforced vacation, Brunetti has packed plenty of reading matter: Pliny, Herodotus, Euripides and that avid gossip, Suetonius.
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He can be a classicist, a ballet historian, a lyrical pure-dance modernist, a comic cartoonist, a riveting children's storyteller or an adult commentator on gender and society.
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"All attacks on archaeological sites and artifacts are brutal assaults on our collective human memory," Cornell University archaeologist and classicist Sturt W. Manning wrote in a commentary for CNN.
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In high school, Mendelsohn senior had read Ovid (Oh-vid, in his Bronx accent), but stopped at that, about which he would often express regret to his classicist son.
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"It's a less leaden way of looking at art," said Andrew Lear, the founder of Shady Ladies, an art historian and classicist who has taught at New York University.
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In the ancient world, "public speech was a — if not the — defining attribute of maleness," the Cambridge classicist Mary Beard writes in "Women & Power," her sparkling and forceful manifesto.
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Twenty-five years ago the French classicist Pierre Hadot argued that the Greeks never intended the love of wisdom to end up as the most arcane of intellectual disciplines.
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One of the imprint's biggest names is Logos, a producer credited—alongside Mumdance and Mr Mitch—with crafting and creating "weightless," a floating, sparse, spatially aware take on classicist grime.
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As the classicist and medical historian Ludwig Edelstein has pointed out, some non-Hippocratic physicians probably did provide poisons to their dying patients, in order to spare them protracted suffering.
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Like Giraldi, Kunitz begins with the Greeks — specifically with the concept of arete, which was the "central ideal of all Greek culture," Kunitz writes (quoting the German classicist Werner Jaeger).
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In the way that country singers often revert to traditionalism after they're done pushing against the genre's boundaries, Eminem may well be on his way to becoming a rap classicist.
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"All attacks on archaeological sites and artifacts are brutal assaults on our collective human memory," Cornell University archaeologist and classicist Sturt W. Manning wrote in a commentary last year for CNN.
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Being a classicist and formalist when it comes to cocktails and drinks—and just a really old-school guy in general—I thought tea-infused cocktails were trendy and a novelty.
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Ms. Beard, now 61, is a classicist of decades-long standing and a "troll slayer" (as an admiring profile in The New Yorker called her in 2014) of a few years.
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As the Greeks had neither sacred books nor prophets but, as the British classicist Manuela Smith points out, invented the injunction to "know thyself," we might consider Freud Socrates' belated heir.
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At Brown, where Nelson majored in classics, he studied under the philosopher and classicist Martha Nussbaum ; afterward, she decamped for the University of Chicago and he headed to graduate school at Juilliard.
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Prof Beard, a Cambridge classicist and leading authority on Roman history, said she was "culpably laid back" about the crumbling of houses and walls, insisting they must not be restricted to academics.
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"The ideas and images of Amazons were modeled on flesh-and-blood warrior women—real nomadic horsewomen-archers of the steppes of Eurasia," Stamford classicist and Amazon expert Adrienne Mayor tells Broadly.
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In 2017, the first English translation of the "Odyssey" by a woman, the British classicist Emily Wilson, was published to much acclaim, replacing older translations on some high school and college syllabuses.
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As the classicist Edith Hall rightly writes, tragedy is polyphonic: It both legitimizes the chauvinism of Athenian power and glory at the same time as giving voice to that which undermines it.
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If this were the case, then only an African-American should have reviewed DuBose Heyward's novel "Porgy," a Holocaust survivor William Styron's "Sophie's Choice," and a classicist Mary Renault's novels about ancient Greece.
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Smokepurpp sounds like a classicist here on "One Time," but there are also differing styles: the wordy Wifisfuneral ("Snakes") and Ronny J himself, who sing-raps on several songs using heavy vocal processing.
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Rossi was also a professor of architecture, a theorist, and polemicist, often writing for the magazine L'Architettura, which was edited by one of the great modernist architecture critics, the zealous anti-classicist Bruno Zevi.
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John Winkler, a classicist and queer theorist who died in 1990, memorably says that understanding ancient Greece is like finding a real person underneath a face which has been smeared with layers of makeup.
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Staples specializes in a sort of updated old-school aesthetic whereby classicist virtues like verbal clarity, metrical dexterity, and musical austerity are inflected through the modernism of contemporary lyrical concerns and voguish electronic production.
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Last year, classicist Julie Hruby won a Mellon New Directions grant to apply modern forensics techniques in fingerprint analysis to antiquity in order to look at the gender of Minoan and later Greek ceramicists.
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Commentary by Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won.
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Mark Bradley, a classicist at the University of Nottingham, believes that in some cases restorers were merely trying to remove residue left by oil lamps that had lit galleries before the advent of electricity.
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Rosenbaum compared Bergman's "fluent storytelling" and "deftness in handling actresses" to the "skills of a Hollywood professional like George Cukor," and in Bergman's earliest films one feels the touch of an unusually engaged classicist.
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The music Pulitzer was established in 19923 as a celebration of homegrown art in the midst of World War II; the first winner was a briskly patriotic cantata by the Neo-Classicist William Schuman.
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Then, just as he was getting to work on "I hope we get a chance to visit soon," Mr. Hersch's wife, Karen Klaiber Hersch, a classicist at Temple University, was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Whereas Lorde and Joel Little tended to build "Pure Heroine" from the drumbeats up — a common method among hip-hop producers — she and Antonoff took a more classicist approach to "Melodrama," writing on piano.
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These three artworks, with their balance of improvisation and paradigmatic structure, combine to create an iconic, modernist/classicist ensemble, a meshing of unlikely objects emblematic of the interplay between painting and sculpture throughout the room.
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He was a trained classicist, not an economist (just like Boris Johnson, the current foreign secretary) and for Powell the survival and nourishing of the nation-state was the most important duty of a statesman.
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Emily Wilson, a classicist who recently published a new translation of the Odyssey, said she was skeptical at first of yet another "retelling of a classical myth," but was won over by Ms. Miller's take.
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This August she will release a new album, "Love and Liberation," that maintains the classicist sound that guided her debut album ("A Social Call," from 2017), but puts a heavier focus on Horn's original compositions.
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The Oligarch was given his catchy name a century ago by a prominent classicist, Gilbert Murray, at a time when the word was not synonymous with friends of Vladimir Putin or billionaires funding political campaigns.
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The director Jillian Keiley's feminist staging of "Bakkhai" — a new translation, by the poet and classicist Anne Carson, of Euripides' ancient Greek tragedy "The Bacchae" — practically pulses with sexual pleasure, almost all of it female.
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"Having seen the cloud, Pliny the Elder decided he wanted to get closer to it to investigate," said Daisy Dunn, a classicist whose 2019 biography "The Shadow of Vesuvius" is the definitive guide to Plinydom.
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But if you're a classicist, you have two options available: the 2005 feature film starring Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen, or the (for my money, vastly superior) 1995 BBC miniseries with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth.
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Mary Beard, a celebrated classicist, considered perspective: through design histories from Mexico and Greece to Egypt and China, she focused on the human body as a way of framing the discussion of what is considered "civilised".
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More of a classicist, Marc fears that he has lost his grasp on his onetime devotee (in male terms, someone must have the power, right?), and he attacks Serge to set the world to his thinking.
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He also took on official commissions, including, in 1939, a pompously classicist ceiling relief of flying female nudes for the Shrine of the Fascist Martyrs, in the new headquarters of the Federation of Fascists, in Milan.
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It gives onto the hideous mock-classicist marble busts of Adolfo Wildt, who stole the show at the 1922 Venice Biennale and who would go on to sculpt Mussolini with the intensity of a Roman emperor.
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Hunt excels in his descriptions of battles, but the freelance classicist John Prevas, in HANNIBAL'S OATH: The Life and Wars of Rome's Greatest Enemy (Da Capo, $28), is better at providing context, both strategic and political.
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The dream of creating artificial life goes all the way back to ancient Greece, where the ancients actually invented real animated machines as the Stanford classicist Adrienne Mayor has documented in her book Gods and Robots.
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Title, the doo-wop-drunk major label debut she released last January, framed her as a shrewd classicist and a sharp melodic mind; her new album, the magnanimously titled Thank You, suggests she's a quick study, too.
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That Graff, a contemporary classicist among today's jewelers, should turn to the abstract expressionism of contemporary art is perhaps less surprising given that Laurence Graff's passion — beyond seeking the world's rarest diamonds — is his personal art collection.
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In her book, The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World, classicist Yun Lee Too noted the prevailing idea among the people of the ancient Mediterranean that books could act as a salve for the soul.
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Illustration: Hudson Hongo (Photo: Getty)Since the dawn of time, human beings have been covering their naughty bits with flora—or at least that's what the classicist motif of putting fig leaves over nudity would have you believe.
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Even as his mature works have featured 19th-century imagery, with titles like "Walden" and "Märchenbilder," Mr. Abrahamsen views himself as more a Classicist than a Romantic, drawn to objectivity and Stravinsky-like detachment rather than emotional excess.
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A new book by classicist and historian Andrew M. Riggsby investigates the types of information technologies (IT) drawn, painted, and inscribed on the surfaces of the ancient Roman world and explores how they shaped the daily life of Romans.
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In her 2017 book Women & Power: A Manifesto, classicist Mary Beard explores how the image of Medusa is used to skewer women in contemporary politics, from Angela Merkel to Hillary Clinton (with Trump as Perseus in a popular manifestation).
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In November, a classicist named Donna Zuckerberg fired off an anguished piece about the alt-right's affection for her discipline and urged her fellow classicists to watch for lurking reactionary sentiments among would-be students of the ancient world.
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Barron, an expert pianist, a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and a classicist with a sharply articulate style, closes his two-week run at the Vanguard with a series of shows featuring Carter, arguably jazz's foremost violinist.
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The Mariinsky was the home of the centrally influential classicist Marius Petipa in the late 19th century and, in the 20th, was the seedpod for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and the training ground of George Balanchine, Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
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Julieta is based loosely on three short stories by Alice Munro, published in The New Yorker in 2004, and the basic profile of Almodóvar's Julieta is the same as that of Munro's Juliet: anxious mother, bereaved former partner, frustrated professional classicist.
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And, classicist Kirk Ormand added, it's still possible to find strains of that ancient belief in the impulsive and absurd lust associated with a large penis in modern culture, even if small penises don't show up in our art as often.
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Mr. Weld — a novelist and Harvard-trained classicist who traces his family to the pilgrims and who was once related by marriage to Theodore Roosevelt — has had an eventful career in private business and politics over the past 20 years.
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Classicist Mary Beard made a similar observation about Roman history more recently in her bestseller SPQR: Historians of Rome often complain about the ancient documents we lack, when what we have is far too much for any individual to command.
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"The first written use of the word 'automaton' in Western literature appeared in Homer's Iliad, recounting the marvelous self-moving and intelligent machines fabricated by Hephaestus, the blacksmith god of invention and technology," Stanford classicist Adrienne Mayor told me in an email.
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Mr. Williams was right to find Stravinsky in Mr. Muhly's music, and he devised a shamanist scenario with animalistic costumes, though the Stravinsky Mr. Muhly emulates is not the primitivist of "The Rite of Spring" but the Neo-Classicist of the later symphonies.
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But as you watch this theatrical event — conceived and directed by the classicist-cum-activist Bryan Doerries in response to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., four years ago — you'll become aware that there's more than one chorus in the house.
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CreditCreditChristof Stache/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images OBERSTDORF, Germany — Julian Yee is the first figure skater from Malaysia to qualify for the Olympics, but for his big debut he does not plan to perform to a familiar classicist like Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninoff.
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An electrical engineer and classicist who was born in Cyprus, Mr. Nikias became an American citizen in 1988, three years before joining the engineering faculty at U.S.C. Mr. Nikias landed there just before racial unrest in South Los Angeles devastated areas close to the campus.
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The female lead is Jessica Manker, a friend of Foxing's soundman who majored in dance at Webster University in St. Louis and now works as a dance teacher—her way of infusing "improper" (read: modern) technique into the classicist ballet performance Coll had planned in the treatment.
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With its 19370 works of art across multiple disciplines, Post Zang Tumb Tuuum appeases the viewer with a fair share of "big" names of the era, including such works as Umberto Boccioni's studies in dynamism, Giacomo Balla's vividly colorful paintings, and Adolfo Wildt's grotesquely classicist sculptures.
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I am not a classicist or a philosopher, so I won't go into how actual philosophers point out that Epicureanism wasn't anywhere as widespread in the classical world as Greenblatt suggests, and that Greenblatt vastly inflates its influence both before and during the so-called Renaissance.
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"The galli were represented as objects of disgust in literature—voluntary self-castration was not what a good Roman man did—but there is no evidence that the priests themselves internalized this humiliation," Dr. Helen Morales, a classicist from the University of Santa Barbara, tells Broadly.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads BOSTON — Founded in 2100 by the classicist John Andrew Rice, Black Mountain College was a shoestring operation deep in the heart of the rural American South that opened as the Great Depression began and another World War loomed just over the horizon.
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In his reshuffling of familiar musical materials into novel shapes and modes of presentation, his faith in a particular set of guitar licks and smooth backbeats that never let him down, his alarming brilliance at composing a rousing, refreshing chorus swelling up from a shrewdly placed verse, Petty's a classicist.
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I've attended shows in high school gyms and at warehouses on the Hudson River, and if "ugly locale" is a marker of a show's prestige, then the US State Department, with its hideous starved classicist architecture and beige toilets, may actually be the most capital-F fashion place in the world.
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She was nominated in five categories and took home the trophy in all five, including wins in all three of the event's biggest categories: Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Hello," and Album of the Year for 25, her third LP of technically brilliant, consciously classicist and subdued pop songs.
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Helmed by project director and classicist Bernard Frischer, the ultimate goal of the project is to rebuild a shifting, interactive model of the city that extends from just before its mythical founding date in 20083 BCE to the middle of the reign of the late Roman emperor Justinian around 550 CE, during the period of the Gothic Wars.
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The Princeton classicist Froma I. Zeitlin suggests that, by the time Euripides wrote "Orestes," he had diverged so extravagantly from myth ("the relatively closed and predetermined form") that he ended up straying into a genre that hadn't been invented yet: what we call fiction ("the mode of new possibilities marked by a receptivity to experimentation and change").
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Along with the uncanny determinism of her surname, Helen DeWitt has several assets, inherited or acquired, useful to the comic writer: she is a trained classicist, whose teasing instincts have been schooled in ancient Greek and Roman satire; her style is brilliantly heartless, and cork-dry; original herself, she is a witty examiner of human and cultural eccentricity.
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One of the most influential treatments of the history of philosophy in the English speaking world is the hugely ambitious and admirably clear study by Frederick Copleston, an Oxford trained classicist who converted to Catholicism, became a Jesuit priest, and famously debated his friend A. J. Ayer as well as Bertrand Russell on philosophical and theological matters.
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Conceived as one of her debut public sculptures at this year's San Francisco Decorator Showcase (her prior commissions were mostly for private clients), Kubrick's version of the story doesn't emulate the Italian classicist Gian Lorenzo Bernini's famous 103 sculpture — now displayed at Rome's Galleria Borghese, it depicts the moment with harrowing realism — but rather summons the kidnapping's subliminal terror.
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" With its cold baths and inscrutable "points" system, the juvie where young Orestes and Leander are incarcerated feels suspiciously like a Catholic reform school; and you don't need to be a classicist to feel that something's off when Tóibín's Bronze Age warriors tap on "windows," wear "shirts," and tipple "drinks" from "glasses" as if they were extras in "Mad Men.
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While public art and architecture assumed a reactionary classicist aesthetic, other visual arts — painting, sculpture, even performance — were animated by different currents, including the second generation of Futurists; the Valori Plastici movement and its return to order; and the exponents of Il Novecento, which was heralded by Mussolini's mistress Margherita Sarfatti and, while similar to Valori Plastici, displayed more of a nationalistic bent.
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CreditCreditGeordie Wood for The New York Times Late in August, as a shadow 2200 miles wide was traveling across the United States, turning day briefly to night and millions of Americans into watchers of the skies, the British classicist Emily Wilson, a woman of 203 prone to energetic explanations and un-self-conscious laughter, was leading me through a line of Ancient Greek.
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Despite major differences among countries and cultures, the authors were able to sort the design of parliamentary structures into five typologies: the opposing benches, derived from the medieval royal court; the neo-Classicist semicircle of 19th-century European nation-states; the horseshoe, a hybrid of the previous two; the circle (rarest of all); and the classroom (commonly found in authoritarian countries).
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