October 8, 2011
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Vectorworks appears to be a CAD software package and was used by archaeologist Jacopo Bonetto in his work at Nora … the Vectorworks people have a mini-feature on their website: When designers use our software in unique ways, we are all ears! Jacopo Bonetto, Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Archaeology at the University of…
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Tariq Ali (re)reads Hesiod for the Guardian … here’s the first bit: I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn’t stop reading it.…
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Part of the hype for the Cleopatra exhibition which has now moved to Milwaukee: Dine in style like queen of the Nile (Journal-Sentinel) … there are all sorts of recipes; their authenticity remains doubtful (e.g., I doubt Cleo had access to Roaring Dan’s rum or Wisconsin maple syrup), but what the heck …
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Interesting program at Whitman College: Between fall 2008 and spring 2010, Dana Burgess, professor of classics, taught 50 Whitman students to read the classics from a new perspective. He assigned traditional texts — Virgil, Plato, Aristotle, Seneca — with a new purpose: to reach across disciplines and re-evaluate contemporary attitudes about the environment. The forward-thinking…
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Meanwhile … in the Classical Blogosphere and environs: Round-Up: October 7 October 7, 2011 (Laura Gibbs) A Source of Roman Military Strength? October 7, 2011 Myrmicat Forever Jesus in the Greek Magical Papyri October 7, 2011 Roger Pearse Antiquity in the Online-Publikationsserver (OPUS) der Universität Würzburg October 7, 2011 Charles Ellwood Jones Constructing Latin Sentences…
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