February 16, 2010

  • Very pricey: Encyclopedia of Ancient History.

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  • The conclusion of a piece on of Deliverance, Zardoz, Point Blank (et alia) fame: As the new decade kicks off, Boorman seems to have his hands full. He has been working on an animated version of The Wizard of Oz for several years. A film based on the Emperor Hadrian is still under development. And…

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  • Charlotte Higgins’ latest: Wilfred Owen in Hades: Homer and the poetry of the first world war | Guardian.

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  • I may have to look into this: World History Blog: Did Alexander the Great Fight the Yeti?. … but Loren Coleman at Cryptomundo seems to have nailed it …

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  • d.m. David Furley

    Professor David John Furley, 87, of Charlbury, United Kingdom, formerly of Princeton, died January 26 after a long illness in Banbury Hospital, Banbury, United Kingdom. A former chairman of Princeton University’s Department of Classics, he was the first classicist to receive the University’s Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities, winning the…

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