January 2010
-
An excerpt in medias res from a lengthy item in Forbes: “Afghanistan is not lost, but for several years it has moved backwards. There’s no imminent threat of the government being overthrown, but the Taliban has gained momentum. Al-Qaida has not reemerged in Afghanistan in the same numbers as before 9/11, but they retain their…
-
Seen on various lists quite a while ago (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar “The ‘Falls of Rome’: The Transformations of Rome in Late Antiquity” CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS NEH Summer Seminar at the American Academy in Rome 28 June…
-
Cleaning up some email, I came across this item from the Chicago Flame: Will the Classics Department survive?.
-
hmmmmmmmmm, he grumbled, Marge Simpson-like: In a “cougars we love” photo essay, the Women on the Web internet site champions Cleopatra for cradle snatching her younger brothers Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV. via Long in tooth but sharp in claw | The Australian.
-
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): This fall, the 35th Annual Meeting of the American Social Science and History Association will take place from 18-21 November in Chicago. This year’s theme is "Power and Politics". The Annual Meeting of the Social Science and…
rogue classicism 