March 28, 2011
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An online paper by David Pritchard … here’s the abstract: This article concerns the paradox of athletics in classical Athens. Democracy may have opened up politics to every class of Athenian but it had little impact on sporting participation. The city’s athletes continued to drawn predominantly from the upper class. It comes as a surprise…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Announcement of a conference organized by the Network on Ancient and Modern Imperialisms. The Past-Colonial: Classics and the Colonization of the Past Friday April 1st – Sunday April 3rd 2011 Yale University Department of Classics in association with the International Network on Ancient and Modern Imperialisms and Yale’s Ancient Societies…
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I’m used to wading through journalistic attempts to make a quotation from Marcus Aurelius relevant to whatever they’re writing about. Today I was pointed to a very interesting blog, the title of which is pretty much self explanatory: Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Translated into Housewife.
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Registration open for Triennial Conference, University of Cambridge, 25-28 July 2011 Hosted by the Faculty of Classics, the Celebration of Classics will see a remarkable line up of international scholars brought together in a novel format for such an event. There will, of course, be some very distinguished plenary lecturers, and there will also be…
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Over the weekend, the Makeuseof folks mentioned this site to make ‘fake’ Facebook profiles, which is something I have been planning to do with my history classes at some point. One of their ‘favourites’, it turns out, is one made for Hermes: Hermes (Mercury) Fake Facebook Profile – MyFakeWall.com. I expect my announcing this will…
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