January 2009
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“Homeric” was once again a popular adjective this week: A review of Susan Sontag’s diaries (New Statesman) included this: “It’s time for Homer, I think,” she writes. “The best way to divert these morbid individualised religious fantasies is to overwhelm them by the impersonal Homeric …” The Yorkshire Post on the challenges facing the new…
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A compendium of items relating — more or less — to the big events last week … now that they’ve had time to ‘sink in’. We being with a bit from the Register-Herald, which actually was about the inauguration of the governor of West Virginia, but had some nice ClassCon: Noting the term “inauguration” is…
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Plenty of stuff from Live Auctions this week, with varying degrees of provenance: Roman, c. 100-300AD., a nice and very small silver (ring; ex Ventura County Collection … not sure what that means) Roman, c. 100-300AD., a lot of 2 small and choice (ditto … a couple of flasks) Roman Egypt, Alexandria, c. 305-30BC., a…
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I was wondering about this one a couple of days ago … there’s a brief AP report just hitting the ewaves that the trial of Marion True and Robert Hecht has resumed in Rome. Nothing much new, yet, but the focus appears to be on Robert Hecht right now. Trial Resumes for Former Curator (New…
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A flurry of items of theatrical interest this week: Two Views of Julius Caesar: As Victor and as Victim (A couple of productions of Julius Caesar in New York) Boal’s New Play Raises Questions About Truth From Antiquity (one of the above: 23 Knives) Hotel Medea (London) Curious ‘Trojan’ still worth seeing (Trojan Women 2.0…
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