July 8, 2010
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Image via Wikipedia This season’s excavations of the ancient city of Sagalassos, located in south-western Turkey, have begun, the head of archeological research project Dr. Inge Uytterhoeven announced recently. This year’s excavations will involve 51 workers and 75 Turkish and foreign technical personnel, Dr. Uytterhoeven, who is also a lecturer at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in…
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Nuntii Latini mensis Iunii 2010 via Nuntii Latini mensis Iunii 2010.
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Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Issue 5 of the journal New Voices has now been published and is accessible from http://www2.open.ac.uk/newvoices. Contents: The Reception of the Ichneutai in the Modern Arabic World Mohammad Almohanna, University of Nottingham Myself, Split Open: Ovid, Rukeyser, and…
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Image via Wikipedia Herbert M. Howe, emeritus professor and former chair of both Classics and Integrated Liberal Studies (ILS), passed away on Tuesday, June 29 in Fort Atkinson. He was 98. His spouse and colleague in ILS, Evelyn Mitchell (Eve) Howe, passed away two days later, at age 94. A memorial service commemorating the Howes’…
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What will likely be a pile of coverage just starting on this one … here’s the incipit what the Telegraph says: David Crisp, a 63-year-old hospital chef, located the 52,503 coins in a single earthenware pot in a field near Frome, Somerset. Mr Crisp, from Devizes in Wiltshire, said his detector gave a “funny signal”…