February 22, 2013
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posted with permission: Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama. By Judith Fletcher. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 277. Hardcover, £60.00/$99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76273-1. Reviewed by Edwin Carawan, Missouri State University (ECarawan). “Speech acts” are familiar in many areas of classical studies, but there has been no systematic work in the…
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posted with permission: The Empire of the Self: Self-Command and Political Speech in Seneca and Petronius. By Christopher Star. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 302. Hardcover, $65.00/£34.00. ISBN 978-1-4214-0674-9. Reviewed by Gareth Williams, Columbia University This book constitutes an important addition to the burgeoning body of scholarship on…
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This trailer just popped up on Youtube … perhaps of interest (it is performed in Greek):
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Seen on the Classicists list: A Three Day CONFERENCE on the theme "Subversion and Censorship in Antiquity and After" October 2-4, 2013 Papers are invited from scholars and researchers in the Humanities to explore important themes on the limitations of freedom of expression (in act, thought or speech). Although papers of the more traditional focus…
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Brief item from Hurriyet: During works carried out in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, three glass bracelets from the early Roman era have been unearthed. The excavations are being conducted in the Meram and Selçuklu districts of Konya, as well as in the Gökyurt village and the Kızılören neighborhood within the borders of the…
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