November 19, 2012
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This one’s potentially confusing as there are two petitions kicking around, one in Russian: Против обвального сокращения бюджетных мест на филологическом факультете СПбГУ … and one in English (which, according to Boris Kaiatchev in the Classics International Facebook group, is specifically aimed at folks outside of Russia because one of the criteria affecting all this…
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posted with permission: On Greek Religion. By Robert Parker. Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii + 309. Hardcover, $78.95/£48.95. ISBN 978-0-8014-4948-2. Paperback, $29.95/£18.50, ISBN 978-0-8014-7735-5. Reviewed by Jon D. Mikalson, University of Virginia On Greek Religion contains the seven Townsend Lectures Robert Parker delivered at Cornell in…
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Seen in the latest Canadian Classical Bulletin: The Greek and Roman Studies program in the College of the Humanities at Carleton University invites applications for a tenure track appointment in Ancient Science and Technology, preferably with an emphasis in ancient medicine, at the rank of Assistant Professor. The appointment, which is subject to final budgetary…
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posted with permission: Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East. By Roger S. Bagnall. Sather Classical Lectures, Volume 69. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 179. Hardcover, $49.95/£39.85. ISBN 978-0-520-26702-2. Reviewed by Panagiotis Filos, University of Ioannina, Greece This latest, small-sized but elegantly produced book by R. S. Bagnall…
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From the BBC: A Roman cemetery containing several human burials has been found during work on a new water mains in Somerset. The finds were made by archaeologists during the laying of a four-mile (7km) long mains between Banwell and Hutton. Among the skeletons, which have been exhumed for further study, there was one in…
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