April 2010
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Some observations from an item in the Telegraph: “Clash of the Titans and How to Train Your Dragon represent worlds that are far from our own and an escape from job insecurity, debates about health care and worrying about paying the bills,” he said. “What better way to do this than to take yourself off…
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Bonham’s also has some interesting items in its upcoming antiquities auction … first thing which caught my eye was this portrait bust of Menander: An interesting togatus … clearly not a garment I’d be comfortable wearing: An anadyomene Aphrodite: Not sure how this is identified as a female athlete (4th/3rd century Etruscan): A Roman Janus…
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Some of the interesting items in Christie’s upcoming antiquities auction include this torso of Aphrodite (from a 19th century Swiss collection) (the inline links will take you to the ‘official page’): A very interesting ‘young satyr’ with a panther at his feet (acquired pre-1970): A bone figure of Aphrodite (left) and a doll (right) (acquired…
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Middle Comedy and the “Satyric” Style – Carl A. Shaw Menander’s Theophoroumene between Greece and Rome – Sebastiana Nervegna The Tyrant Lists: Tacitus’ Obituary of Petronius – Holly Haynes Unseemly Professions and Recruitment in Late Antiquity: Piscatores and Vegetius Epitoma 1.7.1-2 – Michael B. Charles Reconsidering the History of Latin and Sabellic Adpositional Morphosyntax –…
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Seen on CJ Online (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): Call for Proposals: Classical Commentary Writers’ Workshop Georgetown University, October 14–16, 2010: Latin Texts Proposals are solicited for participation in the sixth annual Classical Commentary Writers’ Workshop, to be held on October 14–16, 2010 at Georgetown…
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