July 2009
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Seen on various lists … Conference: “Antiquity in Film – Gender on Screen” December 10-12 2009 at the Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Germany Contact: AntikfilmGender AT gmx.de Prof. Dr. Almut-Barbara Renger Department of History and Cultural Sciences Institute for Religious Studies Chair in Ancient Religion, Culture and the History of their Reception Gosslerstr. 2-4, 14195 Berlin…
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ante diem ix kalendas sextilias ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 5) 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome continues (day 7) 69 A.D. — sacking of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (?) 133 A.D. — the last holdout of the Bar Kochba Revolt — Betar — fell to the Romans (?) 1895 — Birth of…
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Froma Zeitlin posted this to the Classicists list: To those of you who are IPhone users, there are two new wonderful applications now available, very easy to use, courtesy of Harry Schmidt, grad student (and whiz) at Princeton University: 1. Lexiphanes is a Greek dictionary for your iPhone. It contains editions of the Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English…
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The hype has begun for the Starz’ Spartacus series (it’s coming out in January; I hope some Canadian station picks it up) … outside of a press release outlining all sorts of events, there’s now an official website with at least one wallpaper, which folks might be interested in (not of Lucy Lawless, alas) ……
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T’other day we had Plato on music remixing … now the Liverpool Daily Post tells us he knew about transfer talks too (for those of you in North America who don’t follow soccer across the pond, we’d call them ‘trade negotiations’): THE philosopher Plato – as opposed to some other Plato you might know –…
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