Final announcements:

• As a matter of record, your graded final examination is retained in my office for a period of one year. If you would like to review it, plan to drop in during scheduled office hours or call to make an appointment.
• This website is going on vacation pending some renovations. Accordingly, lecture materials have been temporarily removed from access. Other materials will remain available on-line, 'though they will eventually be revised slightly from those which you may have received in class or which you down-loaded from this site during the semester.

March 27: You will have received (via our listserv) a relatively current news summary of the Archimedes palimpsest soon to be on view at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore; take a look at further information at the Walters' website, under "Exhibitions." This is a tenth-century (thus Middle Byzantine) copy of Archimedes' text -- with schematic diagrams rather than illuminations, but it's a math book, after all! -- that was cleaned off (the ink mostly "erased" from the parchment) during the twelfth century so that the precious parchment (remember how we talked about it being the single most expensive component of medieval manuscripts, even with all their gold and precious colors) could be re-used. You may find it interesting to learn how scholars have retrieved the original text using digital enhancement of images of the folios of the manuscript, a process in part pioneered by our own Professor Kevin Kiernan here at UK on an early manuscript of the Beowulf poem . Professor Kiernan will be speaking on this project at the annual Distinguished Professor lecture on April 12 at 8pm in the Recital Hall of the Singletary Center.

  e-SYLLABUS for the course: almost, but not quite, identical to your hard copy. Content is the same in all important essentials and contains links to the detailed list of goals for the course as distributed and discussed in class. In addition, the e- syllabus contains links to relevant on-line information, texts, images, etc. as we move through various topics.