February 4, 2011
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Interesting phrase mentioned in Schott’s Vocab at the New York Times: The Thucydides Trap | NYTimes.com.
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From Bryn Mawr Now: For the second year in a row, a graduate of Bryn Mawr’s department of classical and Near Eastern archaeology has won the Archaeological Institute of America’s Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement, the organization’s highest honor. Susan Irene Rotroff ’68 was awarded the medal at the Institute’s annual meeting in…
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This one’s not specifically within our purview, but is the sort of thing we like to monitor (we’ve all heard of sites being found with Google Earth): One Per Cent: Giant archaeological trove found in Google Earth | New Scientist. … what I can’t help but wonder, though, is whether the tombaroli types are making…
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Very interesting idea over at Slate … some appropriate excerpts: These conceptions of justice and their attendant myths were originally described at length by prominent philologist Georges Dumezil (1898-1986) in his 1948 book Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty. Perhaps you own a copy. Perhaps you have two, so you can keep…
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I can’t really make heads or tails (using Google Translate) of this item from a Greek newspaper. Seems to be a site found at/near Kavouri (Athens or Patras?) with multi-period occupation, ranging from some Hellenistic burials, to a “Classical” temple, to a Byzantine church. Perhaps you’ll have better luck. https://twitter.com/SpartaJournal/status/33341462527606785
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