July 2009
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A piece in the Scotsman on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder includes this tidbit: The modern understanding of PTSD dates from the 1970s, largely as a result of the problems that were still being experienced by US military veterans of the war in Vietnam. One of the first descriptions of PTSD was made by the Greek…
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The Times of Malta had this a little while ago: The murky water in Dock No.1 in Cospicua has witnessed much history over the years. Nobody ever imagined, however, that lying underneath could be the remains of an ancient Turkish wonder – the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. No one, that is, but oncologist Stephen Brincat, who…
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ante diem iv kalendas sextilias ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 10) 67 A.D./C.E. — fighting in Jerusalem between pro-surrender-to-the-Romans groups and their counterparts; the former set fire to some food supplies which apparently contributed to the fall of the city three years later (!) (need to track this one down) ca. 260 — martyrdom of Lucilla…
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Seen on the Classics list … We finally have full approval to fill a one-year position at Wayne State in Detroit. The official posting follows; please note the very short deadline for applications. The Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of Wayne State University seeks a classicist for a one-year lectureship beginning…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Trevor Watkins for drawing my attention to another item in Hurriyet … most notable is this photo: Three more angels appear in Hagia Sophia
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