August 12, 2011
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… and the Huffington Post … the latter has a lengthy item from Narrative Magazine focussing on Diane Middlebrook’s final years (as she was working on a biography of Ovid — she was working on it at the time of her death in 2008; not sure if it was ever published). Here’s a bit from…
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William Wetmore Story’s neoclassical (and somewhat boring) sculpture of Cleo is the Met’s artwork of the day: Cleopatra | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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It’s always interesting to see how non-Western cultures deal with our subject matter. This is a book reviewish/hypish thing from the Iran Book News Agency: Seyyed Abdolhadi Ghazayi said his book deals with the philosophy of Socrates and the backgrounds to the emergence of his philosophy. Referring to the history of philosophy before Socrates, Ghazayi…
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Another tantalizingly brief item from Novinite: Bulgarian archeologist announced Friday the latest precious and unique finds in the country, discovered near the village of Mogilets in the area of the town of Omurtag in northeastern Bulgaria. 100 objects have been found during the digs of 5 tombs. The area around Mogilets is the most researched…
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Tip o’ the pileus to the Huffington Post who brings up Putin’s dive which we mentioned the other day and links to a video of the ‘adventurer’ on the dive … ecce: As my late father would say, “Don’t eat that Elmer … that’s bullsh**” … such staged garbage … they’re in less than…
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