Movie: “Contact” (1997) “Contact” is a Robert Zemekis film from the late 90s and I like it in part because it is based on a novel by Carl Sagan. It takes an interesting approach to the sci-fi genre and says something unique about man’s place in the universe. You’ll be surprised by the ending. Music: “Hotel California” by...
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Professors Picks: Mark McClay, assistant professor of classics
Book: Susanna Clarke, “Piranesi” (2020) The narrator inhabits an endless maze of halls that are populated with classical statues and sometimes flooded with seawater. He does not know how he got there, or even remembers who he is, but mysterious events compel him to seek out the truth. Lyrical and atmospheric, it’s “The Bourne Identity” meets Charles Williams. Movie:...
‘I sing arms and the man’ – emphasis on the singing
They’re singing arms and the man — no, seriously: singing — in a new musical rendition of Vergil’s “Aeneid” written in part by sophomore Nate Shackelford. Shackelford never thought that he would wind up writing an adaptation of one of the greatest epics ever penned for his senior musical because he wasn’t supposed to have another performance. Shackelford’s school, Westside Christian...
Students tell tales from reading of the ‘Iliad’ in a day
Junior Micah Thomas stayed for all 24 hours of the Homerathon — the only student to make it through the entire epic reading of Homer’s epic poem on Oct. 4 and 5. “The things that make Homerathon so great are experiencing a Homeric epic as a cohesive whole and the camaraderie the participants who stick around develop,” Thomas said. Hillsdale’s...
