February 2009
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Michael Poliakoff (classicist and an administrative bigwig at UColorado) comments on 300 as #5 on National Review‘s list of the Best Conservative movies of the past 25 years: During the Bush years, Hollywood neglected the heroism of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan—but it did release this action film about martial honor, unflinching courage, and…
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The Guardian reports on a row going on in Athens over plans to erect a statue of Alexander the Great … inter alia: Seventeen years after its acquisition by the Greek culture ministry, the rendition of the military commander has been gathering dust in a basement storeroom because of fierce controversy over where to put…
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A few years ago a number of items from the so-called treasures of King Croesus were purloined from a museum in Turkey and replaced with fakes. Today we read that the former museum director and a handful of his colleagues have been found guilty of the theft. Thieves of Croesus riches jailed (BBC) 10 jailed…
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As often, the Italian press is full of discoveries which never make it to the English press, alas … Politicamente Correto reports on the discovery of a monumental lion sculpture from Modena, dating to the second half or so of the first century: Nuove scoperte archeologiche dagli scavi lungo la Via Emilia a Fossalta PatrimonionSOS…
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HENDERSON, Aristophanes: Fragments BAGNALL, Egypt in the Byzantine World: 300-700 GUIA, Ripensando Tacito (e Ronald Syme): Storia e storiografia MURRELL, Cicero and the Roman Republic CLAUGHTON, Herodotus and the Persian Wars TREGGIARI, Terentia, Tullia and Publilia: The Women in Cicero’s Family McKEOWN, The Invention of Ancient Slavery? STRAY, Oxford Classics: Teaching and Learning 1800–2000
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