March 20, 2013
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Tip o’ the pileus to Adrian Murdoch for pointing us to this item by Harry Mount in the Telegraph: The Pope’s Inaugural Mass at St Peter’s this morning is a joy for Latin fans. Like his predecessor, he sounds pretty handy at the language, speaking the ancient words fluently and naturally. Even better, for us…
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From Hurriyet: A part of a street similar to the Arcadian street in the ancient city of Ephesus in İzmir has been uncovered during excavations at a nearby historical agora. The excavations in the area are being carried out under the leadership of Professor Akın Ersoy and his team. He said the main street, which…
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posted with permission: Commentary on Demosthenes Against Leptines. With Introduction, Text, and Translation. By Christos Kremmydas. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 489. Hardcover, £99.00/$170.00. ISBN 978-0-199-57813-9. Reviewed by Phillip Harding, University of British Columbia Demosthenes’ speech Against Leptines (number 20 in the corpus) was his first recognized foray into…
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From the Hellenic Society:
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Jo Marchant has written another piece for the Guardian (confusingly, with the same title as a previous piece) detailing a bit more what they hope to find … in medias res: […] For centuries Antikythera was in a busy shipping lane, but surprisingly its treacherous underwater cliffs and reefs are not littered with sunken ships…
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