November 14, 2012
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posted with permission: Creating a Hellenistic World. Edited by Andrew Erskine and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. Swansea and London: The Classical Press of Wales, 2011. Pp. xx + 355. Hardcover, £55.00/$110.00. ISBN 978-1-905125-43-2. Reviewed by Scott Farrington, University of Miami The studies in this book represent the kind of innovation driving the study of the Hellenistic world.…
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I’m still trying to track down the official Papal Bull which established the Latin Academy which the pope recently decreed, but until then, this Rome Reports video is actually really good: … I wonder what would happen if they asked the same question on the streets of some North American city (both knowledge-wise and ‘accent-wise’)
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posted with permission: A Little Latin Reader. By Mary C. English and Georgia L. Irby. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xvii + 187. Paper, $15.95. ISBN 978-0-19-984622-1. Reviewed by Jaime Claymore, Gainesville State College of the University of North Georgia/Mountain View HS, Gwinnett County Public Schools English and Irby have collected excerpts from…
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This one’s getting quite a bit of press coverage in various venues … the Telegraph piece has been brought to my attention by myriad readers, so myriad tips o’ the pileus accrue: Richard Whitaker, the Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Cape Town, said he wanted to celebrate South African English, a patois…
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posted with permission: Land of Sikyon: Archaeology and History of a Greek City-State. By Yannis A. Lolos. Hesperia Supplement 39. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011. Pp. xxviii + 635, 6 maps in back pocket. Hardcover, $75.00. ISBN 978-0-87661-539-3. Reviewed by Dimitri Nakassis, University of Toronto This much-awaited book by Yannis…
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