March 18, 2013
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This one’s interesting inasmuch as I’ve never seen this work before. The intro to a piece in Lebananon’s Daily Star: Auction house Christie’s will offer an unconventional painting by French classical artist Nicolas Poussin, depicting Carthaginian general Hannibal astride an elephant, in July, expecting it to fetch 3-5 million pounds ($4.5-7.5 million). The early work…
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posted with permission: Compiling the Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum in Late Antiquity. By Robert M. Frakes. Oxford Studies in Roman Society and Law. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv + 368. Hardcover, £80.00/$150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-958940-1. Reviewed by Shaun Tougher, Cardiff University This book turns a spotlight on a mysterious late…
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From the New York Review of Books: On February 5, The New York Review celebrated its 50th anniversary at Town Hall in New York City. In this recording from the event, Mary Beard discusses the Review’s coverage of the classics from its first issue through to the present day, and the “inextricable embeddedness of the…
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From the fine folks at Radio Bremen: Nuntii Latini Septimanales 15.3.2013
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Interesting feature in the Atlantic on the origins of applause … plenty of Classics fodder in this one. Here’s a bit in medias res as a bit of a tease: […] As theater and politics merged — particularly as the Roman Republic gave way to the Roman Empire — applause became a way for leaders…
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