August 9, 2012
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N.S. Gill is on the story … looks like roughly 20% come from the period of our purview: Time’s Top 100 People Ever
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posted with permission: Andrew Faulkner, ed., The Homeric Hymns: Interpretative Essays. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 400. Hardcover, £84.00/$160.00. ISBN 978-0-19-958903-6. Reviewed by Marco Perale, University of Minnesota This collection of essays is the result of a collaboration of leading scholars and young researchers in the field of archaic…
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Erlend MacGillivray writes: ClassicalTimeline, a new collaborative digital project that will record the history of Classical antiquity in a timeline using both text and video entries, is currently seeking editors for the politics/politicians section of the timeline. We are looking to for editors: with one focusing on the pre-Roman world, and another on the Roman.…
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Time for the annual update from Dominican Today: The biggest tomb of mummies, one Cleopatra’s masks and the temple of Isis are a few of the finds of Dominican Republic’s most famous architect, while fending off venomous snakes and scorpions, for which she’s “the only woman who dares enter the labyrinths” Kathleen Martinez made the…
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ante diem v idus sextiles ¶ rites in honour of Sol Indiges on the Quirinal Hill ¶ 480 B.C. — Spartan forces under Leonidas fight a suicidal delaying action against Persian forces at Thermopylae (by one reckoning) ¶ 48 B.C. — The forces of Julius Caesar defeat Pompeius Magnus at Pharsalus ¶ 117 A.D. —…
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