March 2012
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A few hours ago we posted about plans to evict all those heavy-handed gladiatorial types who pose for pictures outside the Colosseum … early coverage seems rather tame, now … Check out this bit from Adnkronos: Rome says they have until April 6 to leave. Centurions at the Roman Colosseum say they’ll stay put and…
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Last fall we mentioned A.E. Stallings and her receiving of a MacArthur Grant:MacArthur Genius: A.E. Stallings … OnlineAthens (Georgia) has a bit of info on her: Noted poet A.E. Stallings traveled from Athens, Greece to Athens, Ga. this weekend for readings and other events in town and on the University of Georgia campus. Stallings, who…
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Seen on various lists: The University of Bristol is seeking to appoint to its Chair of Latin Language and Literature. This Chair offers a rare opportunity for a person with vision and energy to provide leadership in the Department of Classics and Ancient History and more widely in the School of Humanities and Faculty of…
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posted with permission: Miriam Leonard, ed., Derrida and Antiquity. Classical Presences Series. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. x + 406. £79.00/$130.00. ISBN 978-0-19-954554-4. Reviewed by Holly Haynes, College of New Jersey Thank God for Derrida and Antiquity, which does an immense amount of work in bringing together two great forces in…
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posted with permission: Jean Lallot, Albert Rijksbaron, Bernard Jacquinod, and Michel Buijs, eds., The Historical Present in Thucydides: Semantics and Narrative Function. Le présent historique chez Thucydide: Sémantique et function narrative. Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. Pp. xi + 327. €108.00/$148.00. ISBN 978-90-04-20118-7. Reviewed by Edith Foster, University of Ashland…
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