December 26, 2012
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posted with permission: Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius’ Astronomica. Edited by Steven J. Green and Katharina Volk. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xix + 342. Hardcover, £79.00/$150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-958646-2. Reviewed by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University (Table of contents available at http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/ acprof:oso/9780199586462.001.0001/acprof-9780199586462) The late-Augustan didactic poet Manilius has largely…
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seen on various lists: *Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities* The Pennsylvania State University Libraries The Pennsylvania State University Libraries seek an outstanding librarian to hold the endowed faculty position of Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities in the George and Sherry Middlemas Arts and Humanities Library on the University Park campus. Responsibilities: The Tombros…
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[deadline extended] APA Link: http://apaclassics.org/index.php/world_of_classics/calls_for_papers_full/cfp_beyond_words_translation_and_the_classical_world/ Beyond Words: Translation and the Classical World Friday, March 8th, 2013 The Graduate Center of the City University of New York Keynote address: Emily Wilson, University of Pennsylvania Translation played an important role in the ancient Mediterranean, with its lively interaction of cultures and languages, and translated texts have long…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Tracking Hermes/Mercury: An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Virginia, March 27–29, 2014 Keynote speakers: Henk Versnel (Leiden), H. Alan Shapiro (Johns Hopkins), Joseph Farrell (Penn), and Deborah Boedeker (Brown). Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (= Roman Mercury) is the most versatile, complex, and ambiguous.…
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