I also wasn't clear where a poem (fragment) started and another began or if a break was just another verse of the previous poem. I had to read things several times to even figure out what was going on - it sounds beautiful when I read it out loud, but it wasn't evocative of any emotion because I had a hard time figuring out what was going on. Well, I read the excerpted Poochigian version, and I was very disappointed.

Getting an academic job is difficult, but I'm sure rewarding! Plus I can imagine field work in Iraq, Syria, etc. I think then, I'd have the ability to do field work, just not all the time.

I had never thought much about the classics before stumbling upon her channel some years ago.Ĭareer wise I'd hope to be a professor or maybe work in a museum. She reviews books, but as she's a classics student (or maybe just Ancient Greece) a lot are books on Ancient Greece and Greek culture. There's a youtube channel of a young Scottish woman that I watch every now and again. I went to high school in the US though, and the closest I ever got to Latin was a poem that had the phrase tempus fugit in it.Ĭlassics must be so interesting! Is there any particular area you're interested in researching? But only degrees like classics, archaeology, I think law & medicine actually require it to start. Latin is taught in many Austrian gymnasiums so it's not unusual to have some Latin pre-undergraduate. You mention a midterm on your profile page. Since a PhD also seems necessary for a career in either field, I'm looking at a lot of years of study. There is no way they'd let me directly into a Master's program without doing the bachelors first. The other big problem: my undergraduate degrees have nothing to do with either Archaeology or Assyriology. I'm planning on talking to some professors in both departments later this month to see what exactly the two programs offer. The Assyriology program seems to be more of a literature based program and not so much archaeology, but I could be wrong though. Latin is a requirement to even start classes. Hence the Ancient Greek requirement to graduate. The university of Vienna's archaeology program is a classical one though that focuses on Ancient Greece and Early Christentum in Europe. I'm most interested in Archaeology that focuses on the Near East (maybe something like Assyrian Archaeology, if that exists). I'm thinking about either Archaeology or Assyriology.

The University of Graz is also a possible option. I'm in Vienna so it would probably be the University of Vienna.

Anne carson sappho translation