February 25, 2013
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posted with permission Horace: Satires Book I. Edited by Emily Gowers. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 370. Hardcover, £60.00/$99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-45220-5. Paper, £23.99/$40.00. ISBN 978-0-521-45851-1. Reviewed by Amy Richlin, University of California, Los Angeles Richly abundant as the lanx satura, Gowers’ long-awaited commentary serves up Horace’s first book of…
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I note that Hilke Thur seems to be still giving talks on the Arsinoe thing (e.g. Archaeologist says bones found in Turkey are probably those of Cleopatra’s half-sister in the Charlotte Observer), so we’ll take this opportunity to gather in one place all the relevant posts: Cleopatra, Arsinoe, and the Implications (the tease for the…
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The Digital Classicist people are definitely in the forefront of putting conferences online … over the next few days we’ll post their latest efforts (the conference was in December 2012), beginning with this one, which includes the abstract to the talk, a video of the talk, and video of the discussion afterwards: Prof. Jenny Strauss…
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2013.02.46: Burkhard Fehr, Becoming Good Democrats and Wives: Civil Education and Female Socialization on the Parthenon Frieze. Hephaistos. Kritische Zeitschrift zu Theorie und Praxis der Archäologie und angrenzender Gebiete / New approaches to classical archaeology and related fields. 2013.02.45: Jennifer Ebbeler, Disciplining Christians: Correction and Community in Augustine’s Letters. Oxford studies in late antiquity. 2013.02.44:…
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Interesting item from Hurriyet: A mosaic featuring an Eros figure fishing on horse has been found in the southern province of Adana’s Yumurtalık district. The half fish-half horse Eros, which is called Hippocampus in Greek mythology, is claimed to be the one and only such mosaic in the world. Made up of marble, glass and…
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