August 22, 2012
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Perpetually filtering through my inbox I find I had saved a link to a review over at the Smart Set, which, inter alia, reviewed a biography of author Margaret Fuller and inter inter alia included this bit: Maybe it was her daddy issues. She had plenty. Her father did not so much bestow his love…
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posted with permission: Tyler Jo Smith, Komast Dancers in Archaic Greek Art. Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xxx + 357. Hardcover, £92.00/$120.00. ISBN 978-0-19-957865-8. Reviewed by Kirsten M. Bedigan, University of Glasgow The playful and dancing image of the Komast figure is a frequent theme in…
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posted with permission: Ramsay MacMullen, The Earliest Romans: A Character Sketch. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 193. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN 978-0-472-11798-7. Reviewed by Gary D. Farney, Rutgers University (Newark) This short work (126 pages of preface and main-text), by a well-known and prolific scholar of the ancient Mediterranean world, proposes…
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Back in June mention was made of a debate over returning the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles which was to be broadcast live on the web, featuring Stephen Fry and Andrew George arguing the ‘pro’ side and Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Tristram Hunt contra …Just came across a Youtube version of the actual debate:
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From the University of Liverpool: Peta Bulmer, a Ph.D student from the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology is carrying out a study on the use of iPads for fieldwork. In a joint project between the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology and the Computing Services Department, Peta will explore the use of mobile devices,…
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