September 12, 2012
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posted with permission: Xenophon’s Mirror of Princes: Reading the Reflections. By Vivienne J. Gray. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. vii + 406. £83.00/$150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-956381-4. Reviewed by Richard Fernando Buxton, University of Texas at Austin Gray’s provocative, lucid and erudite study develops key ideas that she has advanced throughout her career:…
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We mentioned this one last week when most of the coverage was in French … the story finally did hit the English papers, e.g., the Guardian (which picked up coverage from Le Monde) It looks like the rib cage of a large marine mammal, whose bones turned black as it was fossilised. The wreck was…
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posted with permission; Antony and Cleopatra. By Adrian Goldsworthy. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. vii + 480. Hardcover, £25.00/$35.00. ISBN 978-0-297-84567-6 (Weidenfeld); 978-0-300-16534-0 (Yale). Cleopatra: A Biography. By Duane Roller. Women in Antiquity. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xi + 272. Hardcover, $29.95/£14.99. ISBN 978-0-19-536553-5.…
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Slow news day so far, so we’ll squeeze in this item from the Guardian, which really has very little Classical content other than the location: Thousands of “love padlocks” fixed to an ancient Roman bridge by passionate couples have been sliced off with bolt cutters and dumped in a warehouse to save the bridge from…
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pridiem idus septembres ludi Romani (day 8) 490 B.C. — battle of Marathon (another suggested date)
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