November 23, 2012
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This just hit my twitterfeed as I was heading out the door and I fear it will scroll away before I get a chance to post it … a promotional video for Classics in the Spanish education system: RT?Thanks¡ #yoconozcomiherencia http://t.co/f6YnTh7S Demand respect for classical studies and the humanities in spanish education law — Fernando…
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posted with permission: Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s Georgics. By Philip Thibodeau. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 326. Hardcover, $60.00. ISBN 978-0-520-26832-6. Reviewed by John Henkel, Georgetown College Its author describes this book as a “large-scale exercise in compare-and-contrast” between the Georgics and the…
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A glimpse from the Nigerian Tribune: The relevance of Homer’s works to Africa was the focus at the Fourth Biennial Constantine Leventis Memorial Lecture, which was organised by the Classical Association of Nigeria, in collaboration with the Department of Classics, University of Ibadan, last week. Adewale Oshodi reports on the lecture, which highlighted similarities between…
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Barry Strauss pens an interesting piece over at HNN: The March of Scandal from Pericles to Petraeus
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posted with permission: Prodicus the Sophist: Texts, Translations, and Commentary. By Robert Mayhew. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xxix + 272. £50.00/$75.00. ISBN 978-0-19-960787-7. Reviewed by Michael Gagarin, University of Texas at Austin Although Prodicus was an important fifth-century thinker, he remains relatively little known today. Socrates several times alludes to…
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