February 5, 2013
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From the fine folks at the Ancient Art Podcast: If you’ve never seen the other podcasts in the series, you might want to poke around their site …
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From the Penn Museum comes a sort of introductory video thing (it seems to be more of a slide show): … kind of ‘meh’ actually, but some might find it useful
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Very interesting post at the New Yorker‘s Culture Desk by Melissa Lane … here’s a bit in medias res: The pioneers of citizen armies were also pioneers of withdrawing weapons from the places of civilized life. The ancient Greek armies were manned exclusively by citizens who brought their own weapons into battle. Getting to serve…
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From a Stanford press release: The Lance Armstrong doping story is just the latest athletic scandal to highlight the tension between ethical standards in athletic competitions and the drive to win. Although this tension may seem like a contemporary issue, it’s actually been around since ancient times. One of the biggest myths around ancient athletics,…
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posted with permission: Demography and the Graeco-Roman World: New Insights and Approaches. Edited by Claire Holleran and April Pudsey. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. ix + 215. Hardcover, £58.00/$99.00. ISBN 978-1-107-01082-6. Reviewed by Marco Maiuro, Columbia University The eight essays contained in this volume are explicitly intended to explore the frontier…
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