March 11, 2011
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Very interesting item from the Independent: Archaeologists have found Britain’s oldest properly engineered road, and the discovery could change the way we look at a key aspect of British history. Now, many of the country’s key A roads – long thought to be Roman in origin – could now turn out to be substantially more…
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A lengthy item in the Harvard Crimson on the challenges of translating various other-language works into English includes this interesting little excerpt: The tradition of translating ancient texts is still alive and well at Harvard, although it has lost curricular prominence since Harvard’s founding. Undergraduates in the Classics Department are the most active constituents in…
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Mary Beard looks at how our perceptions of Roman and Greek women have changed over the past generation or so: The Classic Woman? | History Today.
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If you’re in the eastern time zone and want to eat lunch while watching a talk, ecce: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce a live telecast of the Open Meeting of the School on Friday, March 11. Speakers will be Jack L. Davis on the Work of the School…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Lish Monahan, who tweeted this one last night … not being an aficionado of Cricket, I’ll assume this one is tongue-in-cheek: The World Cup of 75 BC | ESPN Cricinfo. As long as we’re talking Cricket, folks might want to wander a bit down memory lane, rogueclassicism-style: Popculch: Classical Cricket…
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