CUNY Academic Commons | ColloqVS | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/classics-symposium-via-van-sickle/ Activity feed for the group, ColloqVS. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 9113e78edbf80c22463e761383db7557 Artemida Tesho joined the group ColloqVS https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1103437/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:11:39 -0400 3371db0872a2f2a9350032d326ae2b0d John Van Sickle started the topic PhiBetaKappa & Latino Heritage: immigrants learn from indigenous art in the forum Classics Symposium via Van Sickle https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/classics-symposium-via-van-sickle/forum/topic/phibetakappa-latino-heritage-immigrants-learn-from-indigenous-art/ Fri, 01 Nov 2024 02:31:27 -0400 Philosophia Biou Kybernetes—welcome reminder that for cultures around the Mediterranean,
sea faring was a basic means of livelihood, so that the craft of one who steers, the helmsman,
kybernetes, was early adopted & often transferred figuratively from shipping to governing oneself or the
metaphorical ‘Ship of State’; hence in Latin gubernare with…[Read more]

]]> becc0a3bf17a295fd36cfbb2d8dd3665 John Van Sickle uploaded the file: items from the shelf to ColloqVS https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1001049/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:38:20 -0400 poetry books collected: Edna St. Vincent MILLAY

]]> 27fb01753a6ef99771ab5b135baba8d7 John Babcock Van Sickle uploaded Classics--a Rubric for Reading to ColloqVS https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/770675/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:44:05 -0400 Rubric for Reading:
Who gave ‘Classics ’ pride of placement?
Where did ‘Classics ’ come from?
When did ‘Classics’ get so called?
What did ‘Classics ’ call or call on?
Why did ‘Classics ’ get the call ‘first class’?
How may ‘Classics’ own a call now,
not so much to cap our screens as lend them
language tools & smarts to climb Amanda’s hill & ours.

]]> 6adf413dce318c3f1a660e6880e9e1cc John Babcock Van Sickle uploaded Threading own Life & Reading to ColloqVS https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/770672/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:13:39 -0400 From the roots in Illinois almost countryside to retrospection via cities, countries, schools from the standpoint of Brooklyn & New York: engaging Virgil, Archilochus, Derek Walcott, Mantuan & David Mus.

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]]> d4d73b0dbdb4651c2b2ec1098724b71e John Babcock Van Sickle uploaded Threading Readings to ColloqVS https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/766427/ Wed, 19 May 2021 18:09:57 -0400 From the roots tracing stages, steps and threads

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]]> 0ab9a97b610032db7185aae2dcc7a43d John Babcock Van Sickle uploaded 1970, 'Poetica Teocritea' [just now into English from Italian published by Gentili in QUCC] to ColloqVS https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/766419/ Wed, 19 May 2021 17:35:19 -0400 My first general exploration of metapoetic resonance in Theocritus, while in communication with Chico Rossi in Rome & in active engagement with the recent work of Gilbert Lawall

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]]> 279ded8d274c1cc17fb3da5a841c183a John Van Sickle (he/his/him) changed the name and description of the group ColloqVS https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/766370/ Wed, 19 May 2021 14:41:43 -0400 e476d51e7cad847801a9b72646836db0 John Babcock Van Sickle uploaded Poetica Teocritea to Classics Symposium via Van Sickle https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/766045/ Tue, 18 May 2021 14:39:50 -0400 Basic reading of Theocritus

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