March 12, 2013
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Not sure if this is one we need to keep our eye on or not … a review in the Oxonian Review (by a Classicist) of Toby Miller’s Blow Up the Humanities … A single paragraph from the review is enough for me not to bother: Perhaps BUH was intended as a challenge for elite…
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posted with permission The Passionate Statesman: Erōs and Politics in Plutarch’s Lives. By Jeffrey Beneker. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 258. Hardcover, £55.00/$99.00. ISBN 978-0-19-969590-4. Reviewed by Sophia Xenophontos, University of Oxford In twenty-first-century politics, erotic passion is typically connected with scandalous stories of the private lives of well-known…
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The focus of this seems to be Gobekli Tepe, a Neolithic site in Turkey which is frequently in the news, and which is a bit outside of the purview of this blog, but the issues aren’t … from Hurriyet: Some of the archaeologists currently working at excavation sites around Turkey are not taking their job…
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Interesting item over at the Root … here’s the incipit: The image is the first in a series of 10 large canvases by the Dutch artist Karel van Mander depicting a remarkable tale of love, misadventure and reconciliation. The paintings illustrate the complex narrative related in The Aethiopica, a late antique novel written by Heliodorus…
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Tip o’ the pileus to the Nower Hill High School Classics folks on Twitter for alerting us to this interesting item from Sky: Cardinals taking part in secret discussions ahead of next week’s Conclave to elect a new Pope have been using a remote control with buttons in Latin. The state-of-the-art devices have been handed…
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