November 21, 2012
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Tip ‘o the pileus (I think) to Liz Gloyn for sharing this one on Twitter … something to look at between courses of walking bird, if you’re stateside … you’ll laugh until you stop:
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According to the Greek Reporter, there are at least some coins (?): The underwater shipwreck excavation of the wreck of the ship Mentor, that sank off the island of Kythera in 1802 while carrying goods plundered from the Parthenon by British diplomat Lord Elgin has proved to be a treasure trove of personal items from…
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posted with permission: The Economies of Hellenistic Societies, Third to First Centuries BC. Edited by Zosia H. Archibald, John K. Davies, and Vincent Gabrielson. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 460. Hardcover, £89.00/$165.00. ISBN 978-0-19-958792-6. Reviewed by Stanley M. Burstein, California State University, Los Angeles For much of the twentieth…
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Some hype from the Sydney Morning Herald: AS HEROIC gods go, Dionysus would fit right into Sydney: god of the grape harvest, bringer of culture and ritual ecstasy, he was the mythological inspiration for Alexander the Great, the 4th century BC Macedonian king and spreader of civilisations who is being honoured with his own blockbuster…
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posted with permission: A Companion to Horace. Edited by Gregson Davis. Oxford, Chichester, and Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. xiv + 464. Hardcover, £156.00/$209.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-5540-3. Reviewed by Timothy S. Johnson, College of Charleston Horace’s literary career spans thirty years from the final years of the republic to the middle years of the principate. He…
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