November 29, 2012
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posted with permission: The Art of Biography in Antiquity. By Tomas Hägg. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xv + 496. Hardcover, £70.00/$110.00. ISBN 978-1-107-01669-9. Reviewed by Joseph Geiger, Hebrew University of Jerusalem This book is neither an enquiry into the evolution of the genre of ancient biography (if such it was)…
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From Hurriyet: Archaeologists are hopeful that Culture and Tourism Minister Ertuğrul Günay will announce the return of the Orpheus Mosaic to Turkey from the Dallas Museum of Art in the U.S. on the eve of new year, daily Hürriyet reported. Günay had previously hinted that the ministry would return a specific historical artifact that was…
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The latest Carnivalesque is out and, as always, is very scant in terms of the ancient side of things (I really don’t know why … our Blogosphere posts should indicate that there’s a heckuva lot to choose from) but what it does include is very interesting … a post by Helen King on Roman Medicine…
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Domesticating Reality: Representations of Space and Place in Antiquity Graduate Student Conference Department of Classics University of Toronto 20-21 April, 2013 Keynote speaker: Lisa Nevett, University of Michigan The interplay between culture and space in ancient thought is manifested in many ways. Not only are artistic and literary features envisioned and understood in spatial terms,…
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posted with permission: Nemea Valley Archaeological Project Volume I: The Early Bronze Age Village of Tsoungiza Hill. By Daniel J. Pullen. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011. Pp. xxxix + 1047. Hardcover, $150.00. ISBN 978-0-87661-922-3. Reviewed by Erika Weiberg, Uppsala University This volume succeeds in the full integration of all material…
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