October 7, 2011
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NewsOne has a list of the 16 persons of African descent who have won Nobel prizes of some sort. Included in the list: Derek Alton Walcott is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for…
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At the ASCSA site, there’s a video of a lecture by Mark MacKinnon (UWinnipeg): Animals in the Agora: Reconstructing Cultural Life in Ancient Athens from Zooarchaeological Remains … haven’t had a chance to watch it myself yet, but it looks interesting.
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Okay … I’ve waited a couple hours to see if my spiders bring back something with a little more detail. They haven’t, so I’ll post this for now … from the Straits Times: Archaeologists in northern Greece have found a rare group of ancient graves where farmers were interred with their livestock, a Greek daily…
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Interesting item by India Lenon in the Telegraph: This afternoon I paid my tuition fees for the fourth and final time. A few minutes later, I received the lecture lists for the new term, and I’ve undertaken some mercenary calculations. Oxford, along with all other government-subsidised universities in the UK, charges the maximum tuition fee…
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Very interesting items put up at Didaskalia today … here’s a bit from the page as a bit of a tease: To describe Theater of War (hereafter ToW) as ‘theater,’ or ‘a theatrical event,’ or even a ‘performance’ is to surely miss the point. Working from the argument that Attic Greek drama was primarily (though…
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