April 1, 2011
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Cute item from the Indiana Statesman … I suspect the date is a bit off: Where only toga-wearing colleagues used to walk into her office, Marilyn Bisch, a professor of Latin, was shocked when three figures floated into her office. These men happen to be none other than Caesar, Cicero, and Catullus: three of the…
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From an Atlanta publication: Art patrons, friends and educators are invited to celebrate the unique Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in DeKalb County Saturday at an elegant Veneralia evening of cocktails in the main museum gallery followed by dinner and dancing in a tent on the historic Emory quadrangle. The name “Veneralia” is…
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While most of press seems to be still flopping around on the bottom of the boat trying to extract the hook they fell for in relation to those lead codices, they have — for the most part — ignored a rather more exciting (and real) discovery that was made by the University of Missouri –…
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More and more folks are commenting on these purportedly ‘discovered’ lead codices which have all sorts of theological implications. In addition to the coverage and the comments in our initial post on the subject, folks might be interested in checking out some more commentary from assorted Bibliobloggers. What is increasingly interesting (to me, at least)…
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Interesting that an adaptation of a 2500 year-old Greek drama could still resonate so powerfully that some folks would ban its presentation (tip o’ the pileus to whoever maintains the CAC’s Facebook page): An aboriginal adaptation of the Greek tragedy Antigone will be staged Thursday on the Poundmaker Cree Nation in northern Saskatchewan, its author…
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