May 2009
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… seen on the Classicists list PhD position (m/f) Noord-Holland), 38 hours per week University of Amsterdam For the offical announcement see http://www.academictransfer.nl/organisaties/?adm_pin=00361&fuseaction=detail&vacature_id=CNGX8YVW Job description The Institute of Culture and History (ICG) of the UvA has a vacant PhD position (Heroic space in Attic drama) per 1 September 2009, as part of the NWO funded…
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ante diem iv kalendas Iunias Ambarvalia (?) 1905 — birth of E. Togo Salmon (Samnium and the Samnites)
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Brief item from ANSA: Workmen inside Florence’s courthouse have stumbled across a spiral column and hundreds of multicoloured fragments that experts believe may have belonged to a Roman temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. Dating to the second century AD, the remains were discovered as the men dug a five by three metre hole,…
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From a UBristol press release: A scholarly project to document and analyse all known images of mythology from the Greek, Roman and Etruscan civilisations, has reached it culmination with the appearance of the last two volumes of the 20-volume series. The project, known as LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae), was begun in the early 1970s.…
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The latest installment of Dear Socrates is up at Philosophy Now … the hemlock-imbiber somewhat anachronistically makes reference to Jesus in this one …
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