April 4, 2009
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The Independent has an item on books read by assorted Premier League footballers/soccer players … Robert Green’s seems appropriate: Robert Green, the West Ham and England goalkeeper, selected Homer’s The Iliad – a departure from 2007’s list, when he plumped for Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Rooney’s is Harry Potter, but whose is…
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PORTS AND CANALS OF THE ROMAN WORLD: INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRADE University of Oxford Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine StudiesSaturday 9th May, 2009 The Oxford Roman Economy Project PROGRAMME 14.00-14.35 Constructing Port Hierarchies: harbours asindicators of global and Katia Schörle local interconnectivity 14.35-15.10 ImportedBuilding Materials of SebastosHarbour, Caesarea Greg Votruba Maritima 15.10-15.45 Shipping Stone: Roman…
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The ARCHIVE OF PERFORMANCES OF GREEK AND ROMAN DRAMA, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORDin partnership with, THE CENTRE FOR THE RECEPTION OF GREECE & ROME, ROYALHOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, is please to announce a Bastille DaySymposium 2009 (220 years on) Classics, Theatre and Thought in France Confirmed Speakers: Froma Zeitlin, Brigitte le Guen, Amy Wygant, Dominic Glynn,…
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Some excerpts from a lengthy piece in the Boston Globe: When Harvard was founded nearly four centuries ago, all students read and spoke Latin. They had to: Lectures were delivered primarily in the ancient tongue, and the classics was pretty much all they could study. Today, the number of students conversant in Cicero and Plato…
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