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It's my real name truncated. My real name is Thomas Casagranda. I live in Reading, Berkshire, UK. I hold a Masters in the reception of the Ancient World, a summa cum laude BA First class degree in Classics. I work for a large US-based company called Verizon, which I love, and I'm pushing 50.
There ya go.
Are you the only person on the planet to be qualified in “the reception of the Ancient World”? Are you now working as a receptionist for your company?
Just a little good-natured joshing. Seriously, I would be interested to know more about your qualification, not that you’re under any obligation to respond.
Ha ha !
Good posting.
Now, many years back in that time-frame of the early 1990s I was at university. My BA was in Classics, majoring in Latin. I was two papers off getting a double first, missing by seven marks on Ancient Literary Theory, and Latin unseen.
BA involved Greek Epic, i.e Homer's Odyssey, Iliad, Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica: Roman epic involved Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Lucan's Pharsalia.
I also worked on Latin Love Poetry: Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid's Amores, Ars Amatoria.
However, my BA dissertation was on Virtue & Vice In Juvenal's Satires, which I enjoyed tremendously. I'd recommend anyone to read Juvenal, as he's a great author, a bit bad tempered at times but the social commentary remains timeless.
After I did my BA, circa 1996, I went on and did a Masters in the reception of the Ancient World. That involved analysing how Greek Tragedy, i.e Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus would be produced and presented in the modern world. I analysed an adaptation of Medea by Pier Paolo Passolini, likewise Oedipe Re by Pasolini too. Furthermore, I analysed a production of the Bacchae by Wole Soyinka, and Jean Anouilh's version of Antigone. Additionally, I read Hegel's exposition of Antigone, Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy, and applied them to papers on Greek Tragedy.
I also, at Masters level, looked at Rome On Film, i.e the silent Ben Hur compared to the Charlton Heston 50s version. Quo Vadis was also factored in. Additionally, I looked at 19th Century Victorians In Togas novels such as The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (an awful novel by any stretch of the imagination). I also continued with a Masters degree in Roman Satire, and its accompanying influence on St Jerome.
I'm, however, not a receptionist at Verizon: I do a thing called enhanced due diligence and anti-money laundering anti-bribery corruption analysis.
However, I'm not the only Classics scholar in the world - the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, is. Tom Hiddleston, he of Loki-fame, is also a classicist.
So, I hope that sums me up a bit.
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The Sicilian
I'm trying to picture climbing the antenna but my mind won't let me go there. Please describe it, does it sway up there?
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Virgin Priest
How did I pick my screen name??
I really don't know...
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I'm trying to picture climbing the antenna but my mind won't let me go there. Please describe it, does it sway up there?
Oh gawd, I don’t want to bore everyone (that’s a lie, I do it often and enjoy it thoroughly). ‘If the tower didn’t bend, it would break’ says the construction film, so yes, it sways, but if the winds are high and it sways more than 3 feet at the top, you can’t go up. It’s hard to remember details as it was 1978 and I was sleep deprived at 4am when we started up... Picture a big, 330 foot chimney with a ladder straight up. Break that into 5 parts (check a pic of the antenna, it’s in 5 ever-narrower sections) then add steel mesh floors between sections, a tangle of transmission cables, a fuse box and porthole (onto which you have to step between 2 of the sections) and that’s all I got. It was a hell of a rush though!
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Probably when I misremembered or replaced/made up my own lyrics from Midnight Rambler with They’re Red hot (R. Johnson). Or maybe I just finished watching the She was hot video. Possibly that.
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Did you ever tell Rockman how you went over the Niagara Falls in a barrel?
Yeah .... after she'd drank the barrell dry ....
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Probably when I misremembered or replaced/made up my own lyrics from Midnight Rambler with They’re Red hot (R. Johnson). Or maybe I just finished watching the She was hot video. Possibly that.
Or maybe you subconsciously had GS in mind?