January 2010
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… judging by this headline in the reporter: Man faces charge for yelling epithets.
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Denise McCoskey, associate professor of classics at Miami University, has won the American Philological Association 2009 Award for Excellence in Teaching at the College Level. “I find it nearly impossible to write about Denise without resorting to a list of superlatives, but she really is extraordinary,” one nominator wrote. McCoskey joined Miami’s faculty in 1995.…
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Classics professor Eric Rebillard has been awarded a $45,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support his research on funerary behaviors among the common people of the Roman Empire. “Knowledge about Roman funerary rituals and burial practices is largely limited to a few texts and a few monuments, both products of the cultural…
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Survivor found after 10 days / German judges want Videla arrested / Indian government increases survelliance in airports / Pirates free Greek ship Akropolis World News.
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Classics Professor Emerita Margaret Reesor passed away Thursday, January 21. Professor Reesor started teaching in Queen’s department of classics in 1961.She was greatly admired as a teacher in a wide range of classical subjects, including Greek language, literature, and philosophy, and the Latin writers Cicero, Lucretius, Vergil, and Seneca, and as a much-published authority on…
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