March 11, 2013

  • posted with permission: Plato’s Republic: A Critical Guide. Edited by Mark L. McPherran. Cambridge Critical Guides. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 273. Hardcover, £53.00/$90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-49190-7. Reviewed by David Schur, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York As McPherran observes in his introduction, this collection of twelve essays…

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  • From  vol 53.1 (2012)… as far as I can tell, all these are freely downloadable … link at the end: The Betrayal of Aeneas Giampiero Scafoglio Dating the Homeric Hymn to Selene: Evidence and Implications Alexander E. W. Hall A Citizen as a Slave of the State? Oligarchic Perceptions of Democracy in Xenophon PDF Melina…

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  • d.m. Charles Babcock

    From the Columbus Dispatch: BABCOCK Charles Luther Babcock, age 88, died Friday, December 7, 2012 at the Wesley Glen Health Center. Son of Estelle Randolph and Robert L. Babcock he was born in Whittier, California May 26, 1924. He was a World War II veteran, having served in Europe where he was awarded the Bronze…

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  • d.m. Hector Catling

    From the Telegraph: Hector Catling, who has died aged 88, became director of the British School at Athens after playing a leading role in establishing a comprehensive archaeological field survey of the island of Cyprus. In 1951 Catling, then a young Oxford student struggling to develop his career as an archaeologist, went out to Cyprus,…

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  • DAMOS Mycenean Database

    Not sure if we mentioned this recent arrival on the interwebs: DĀMOS Database of Mycenaean at Oslo

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