February 2009
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Mark June 20 in your pda … that’s the date officially announced t’other day about the official opening date of the new Acropolis Museum … Grand opening in June (Kathimerini) Opening date set for long-delayed Acropolis Museum (CBC … nice photo of the museum) Greece to open new Acropolis museum in June (IHT) New Acropolis…
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Well now that we’re past that Lupercalia unpleasantness, we can concentrate on other aspects of this Valentine’s Day (or Valentines Day, if you prefer) … seems that amicus noster Don Lateiner was amongst a pile of folks from various disciplines holding press conferences/having interviews about the origins of kissing. Most of the coverage seems to…
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Wow … what bills itself as “Canada’s National Newspaper” (we Westerners were always skeptical of such) incipits a piece thusly: Word play occurs in unexpected places. Diane Lane, while promoting her recent movie Nights in Rodanthe, branched into a brief discussion of “cide.” “To decide is a great word,” she said, “because it’s like fratricide,…
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COMIC INTERACTIONS: COMEDY ACROSS GENRES AND GENRES IN COMEDY Friday 17 – Saturday 18 July 2009 Department of Greek and Latin, UCL, and the Institute of Classical Studies A conference sponsored by the British Academy, the Institute of Classical Studies, and the Department of Greek and Latin. Speakers: Eric Csapo, Chris Carey, Edith Hall, Stephen…
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INSCRIPTIONS AND THEIR USES IN ANCIENT LITERATURE: A CONFERENCE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER 25-26TH JUNE 2009 Booking is now open for this conference, which aims to explore the possibilities which the literary record of ancient inscriptions offer both to those interested in understanding ancient attitudes towards inscriptions and to those…
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