Copley Latin Day 2024 Preliminary Readings
These materials are by no means mandatory preliminary materials for any of the lectures, workshops, or activities happening at CLD. They are here simply to serve as a resource for teachers who may wish to orient their lessons towards the material to be covered in the days/weeks leading up to the event. Direct links to the material have been provided where possible. Enjoy!
Teacher Resources
CLD24 Teacher Resources
General Readings About STEM and Classics
- Cartwright, Mark. “Roman Science”: https://www.worldhistory.org/Roman_Science/
- "Traces of Ancient Rome in the Modern World": https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/traces-ancient-rome-modern-world/
- “Ancient Roman Technology”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_technology
- “Roman Astronomy: History of Science”: https://belowthestars.com/roman-astronomy/
Readings Pertaining to Specific Lectures/Workshops/Activities
A Constellation is Born: Netta Berlin
A Year in the Life of an Ancient Doctor: Madeleine Harris
- Jones-Lewis, Molly. “Pharmacy”: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13BSQa5b2M7G6anX9lZ94rbmgrqYQsGil/view?usp=sharing
Are You Smarter Than a Roman Naturalist?: Hannah Resnick and Elizabeth Zollner
- Doody, Aude. “Pliny's "Natural History: Enkuklios Paideia" and the Ancient Encyclopedia”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40208088
- Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew. “Pliny the Elder and Man’s Unnatural History”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/643244
Epicurus’ Swerve. Can we preserve free will in a deterministic world?: Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Excavations at the Cemetery at Kelsopolis: Stephanie Wottreng-Hale
Greek and Roman Aqueducts in Anatolia: Christopher Ratté
Introduction to Bronze Age Archaeology: Rebecca Sanders
- Kaspersen and Posse. “The Birth of a New Age - The Bronze Age”: https://www.scandinavianarchaeology.com/the-birth-of-a-new-age-the-bronze-age/
Operation Skill Game: Gladiator Edition: Alanna Heatherly
- König, Jason. “Regimen and Athletic Training”: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18x_G_OnFmujeIxvXDUjazApsiPqaKccl/view?usp=sharing
Pliny the Elder -- a martyr of science: Donka Markus
Roman Tragedy: Cosmic Upheaval in Accius’ Atreus and Seneca’s Thyestes: Shaun Espenshade
- Britannica, “Lucius Accius”: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lucius-Accius
- “Thyestes (Seneca)”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyestes_(Seneca)
Small Science for Big Questions: Laura Motta
- “Bioarchaeology”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/bioarchaeology#:~:text=Bioarchaeology%20(osteoarchaeology)%20is%20the%20study,recovered%20from%20an%20archaeology%20site
The Science Behind the Mask: Joseph Droegemueller
- Theater Masks at the Metropolitan Museum: https://www.metmuseum.org/search-results?q=theater+masks&searchFacet=Art
The Science of the Roman Empire: Ian Fielding
Using Artificial Intelligence to decipher Ancient Scrolls: Richard Janko
- “First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by 21yo computer science student”: https://scrollprize.org/firstletters
- Marchant, Jo. “AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum for the first time”: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03212-1
AI will let us read ‘lost’ ancient works in the library at Herculaneum for the first time: McCosker, Michael
- "AI will let us read ‘lost’ ancient works in the library at Herculaneum for the first time": https://theconversation.com/ai-will-let-us-read-lost-ancient-works-in-the-library-at-herculaneum-for-the-first-time-223583?fbclid=IwAR1zsBk4egVYQ7g98kUv2AsTxjE8ZwvogmGT66aoi1GuvNe-OKHEblOxivc
What’s in a Name?: Ben Fortson
