January 2009
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ex libris (Wordsmith) vacuous (Dictionary.com) implacable (Merriam-Webster)
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Shifting Frontiers VIII
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THE LEGACY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT Third Workshop on Hellenistic History, Culture and Society The Impact of Hellenism Friday, 13 February 2009, Humanities Graduate School, School of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology, 12 Abercromby Square, Liverpool This workshop, hosted by the School of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology The University of Liverpool 12-14 Abercromby Square Liverpool L69…
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Colloquium on Plato’s Phaedrus, April 16th-18th 2009 Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge The Phaedrus is one of Plato’s most explicitly ‘literary’ dialogues, both in the sense that it is crafted in a particularly ingenious fashion and in so far as it explicitly discusses the worth of literature, especially as a medium for philosophy. Of…
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This one received quite a bit of press attention … a metal detectorist has come across a hoard of some 824 gold staters, dating from 40 B.C. to 15 A.D. (and so, of course, popularly connected to “Boudicca’s predecessors”) in a field near Wickham Market. It’s apparently the largest hoard found in the UK since…
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