April 16, 2012
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From the New York Times: HELD–Dirk tom Dieck, Of Westerly RI, was the Elizabeth S. Kruidenier ’48 Professor of Classics at Connecticut College in New London, CT. He took his A.B. and Ph.D in Classics at Brown University. In 1971, he joined the faculty of Connecticut College, where he served until his death from a…
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Seen on a couple of lists now: Chers Collègues, L’Année Philologique, outil irremplaçable de bibliographie de l’Antiquité gréco-latine, est menacée à très court terme de disparaître dans sa forme actuelle, voire de cesser sa parution. La cause de cette menace est simple : la rédaction allemande de L’Année philologique, la Zweigstelle Heidelberg, doit fermer ses…
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Seen on the Classicists list Menander in Contexts 23 – 25 July 2012 Lincoln Hall, University of Nottingham It is now over a century since Menander made his first great step back from the shades with the publication of the Cairo codex, and over half a century since we were first able to read one…
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Seen on the Classicists list: BODIES OF EVIDENCE: REDEFINING APPROACHES TO THE ANATOMICAL OFFERING An international conference at the British School at Rome, Tuesday 5th June 2012 From Pharaonic Egypt to Roman Italy and from Classical Greece to the Byzantine world, anatomical votives have performed a continuous, if poorly understood, role in ritual and votive…
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A couple of items within our purview: Don C. Benjamin, Stones and Stories: An Introduction to Archaeology and the Bible http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7976 John S. Kloppenborg and Richard S. Ascough, eds. Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, and Commentary: Volume 1: Attica, Central Greece, Macedonia, Thrace http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8214
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