November 6, 2012
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Tip o’ the pileus to Terrence Lockyer for alerting us to a feature in the Guardian which seems to be hype for a documentary of some sort: Ray Harryhausen: the father of fantasy film-making (Guardian)
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Tip o’ the pileus to Phoebe Acheson on twitter who alerted us to an article in the New York Times Magazine about rappers using twitter hashtags for inspiration and which also included this excerpt: There has been some debate among musicians and critics about whether such hip-hop rhymes constitute cheating. But these critiques are absurd.…
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You have, no doubt, already heard that Roman officials plan to get rid of those (in)famous cats wandering around the Roman Forumish area … if not, here’s typical coverage from the Telegraph: For as long as anyone can remember, cats have roamed the marble columns of the ancient site in Rome where Julius Caesar was…
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They don’t have an issue out yet (it’s coming soon) but they do have a page at Brill, so it must be official. Here’s the description from that page: Greek and Roman Musical Studies is a new journal, the first specialist periodical in the fields of ancient Greek and Roman music. It will publish papers…
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Not for free, alas, but here’s what’s in this very interesting-looking issue: Simon Price, Religious Mobility in the Roman Empire Mary Beard, Cicero’s ‘Response of the haruspices’ and the Voice of the Gods Katherine McDonald,The Testament of Vibius Adiranus Roy Gibson, On the Nature of Ancient Letter Collections Michael Kulikowski,Coded Polemic in Ammianus Book 31…
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