May 15, 2011
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I was just grumbling on Facebook because I couldn’t access this via the BBC archive … it does reside on Youtube, as it turns out. From a 1966 edition of BBC Chronicle (the volume seems rather low on this): 100 days’ march… as Pliny says (NH 10.27 … via Lacus Curtius): mirum in hac alite…
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This one’s kind of interesting … I’m poking around the Internet Archive and came across this short film put out by Encyclopedia Britannica back in 1964. It is an interesting look at daily life in ancient Rome and could very well be used in a classroom — it’ll definitely get giggles at some points —…
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Seen on the Classicists list: ANCIENT CARTHAGE: MODELS OF CULTURAL CONTACT Friday 5 – Saturday 6 August 2011 The aim of this networking project is to address the Carthaginian-Phoenician nexus in the wider Mediterranean context from the 9th century BCE to the fall of Carthage to Rome in 146 BCE, as well as the rediscovery…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Philologisches Schubladendenken: Epochen und Gattungen auf dem Prüfstand Stereotyped Thinking in Classics: Literary Ages and Genres Re-Considered University of Vienna Wed., May 30 – Fri., June 1, 2012 Organizers: Farouk F. Grewing (Vienna) and Christine Walde (Mainz) Call for Papers This conference is supposed to be the first of a…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Eighth annual seminar on ancient Greek music The Ionian University, Corfu, 4-9 July 2011 (with preliminaries on July 3) Every summer since 2004, the Music Department at the Ionian University has held a week-long seminar on ancient Greek music. The programme follows a regular pattern: the mornings are devoted to…
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