March 13, 2013
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The Winter 2013 issue of Etruscan News is now available (and seriously, this is a good model for an online publication of any kind): Etruscan News
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posted with permission: Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. By Anastassios Antonaras. Princeton University Art Museum Series. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. 408 + 556 color + 40 b/w illustrations. Hardcover, $65.00/£45.00. ISBN 978-0-300-17981-1. Reviewed by Chloë N. Duckworth, University of Nottingham Antonaras is an archaeologist…
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Here’s something of interest from Seven Days: Americans are writing new, intriguing-sounding operas all the time. In the last five years alone, operas about Walt Disney and John Brown have premiered, and a work based on author Annie Proulx’s story “Brokeback Mountain” will be sung next year. Of course, these operas are usually in English.…
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This looks interesting … the first couple of paragraphs from an item in Variety: India’s Jungle Book Entertainment is targeting the U.S. market, working with Canadian producer Fred Fuchs to develop big-budget English-language TV drama “Greeks,” in association with Canada’s Take 5 Prods. (“Vikings”). “Greeks” is set in 326 BC during Alexander the Great’s invasion…
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Interesting item from the BBC: A restored Roman cockerel figurine is the best result from a Cirencester dig in decades, archaeologists have said. The enamelled object, which dates back as far as AD100, was unearthed during a dig in 2011 at a Roman burial site in the town. It has now returned from conservation work…
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