March 2009
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First we hear about the Artemesion … now it’s the Mausoleum the erstwhile wonder … the incipit from Hurriyet: The mayor of Bodrum has announced that the city will build a model of King Mausolus’ Mausoleum, which is considered seven wonders of the ancient world. Bodrum Mayor Mazlum Ağan, who has held his post for…
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Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens December 10, 2008 – May 9, 2009 Onassis Cultural Center New York, New York Official website here (just general information). Reviews: The Glory That Was Greece From a Female Perspective (New York Times) previous aggregation of links at our old rogueclassicism site (we’ve mentioned this exhibition before;…
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I thought we had mentioned the problems at UIC before, but I can’t seem to find it. In any event, here’s a very interesting item from the Chicago Flame: In an effort to heighten student interest in the university’s small but well-recognized Classics department, a recent alumnus has organized a team of 24 business students…
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Plenty of coverage of this one, but all the coverage is brief and apparently derived from an AP wire story. A fisherman working between Kos and Kalymnos hauled up his net and found it contained (as was later determined) a section of a bronze equestrian statue dating to the second century B.C.. The statue is…
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TELEOLOGY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD The Dispensation of Nature Venue: The University of Exeter, 8-11 July, 2009 Organisers: Dr. Julius Rocca and Prof. Christopher Gill An international conference which will discuss the ways teleological arguments were used in medicine and philosophy in antiquity, and how these arguments have continued to inform and influence current debate…
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