October 5, 2011
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This sounds like a really interesting approach … do other universities do this sort of thing? From the Vassar Miscellany News: Put an archivist, art historian, classicist and theologian into the same room, if you can, put a Northern Renaissance painting before them, and let them discuss and pick apart it. Students and faculty will…
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Our fellow McMaster alum is giving the Davis Lecture at Samford University … from the Crimson: There will be blood at this year’s Davis lecture. Dr. Garrett G. Fagan will deliver “Watching the Fighters: Exploring the Roman Fascination with Gladiatorial Combat.” He will be discussing how the Roman ideas of sport translate into the modern…
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Really? This is news? Did anyone REALLY THINK PUTIN ACTUALLY FOUND THOSE AMPHORAE? The Australian (and the others picking up the story) doesn’t give us much credit for intelligence: THE widely publicised incident in which Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pulled up ancient Greek jug fragments from the seabed on a diving expedition was staged,…
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An account of a talk given by Paolo Asso at Harvard … from the Crimson: “Since the life of the mind finds expression in art and literature, the literary imagination is where we go to access, teach, explain, divulge, and question the official mythologies of history,” said Paolo Asso, W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow and Scholar-in-Residence…
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Very interesting item over at the Classicist blog (pardon the shouting): CLASSICAL COMMENTS: THE HEPHAISTEION AND ITS ADAPTATIONS
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