January 2010
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Eric Dodson-Robinson Helen’s “Judgment of Paris” and Greek Marriage Ritual in Sappho 16 Arethusa – Volume 43, Number 1, Winter 2010, pp. 1-20 The Johns Hopkins University Press Abstract: The evaluation and judgment of what is most beautiful (κάλλιστον) in Sappho 16 is what John Foley calls a “traditional reference” to the judgment of Paris.…
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Dean Hammer Roman Spectacle Entertainments and the Technology of Reality Arethusa – Volume 43, Number 1, Winter 2010, pp. 63-86 The Johns Hopkins University Press Abstract: Roman spectacle entertainment has attracted substantial scholarly interest because of renewed ways in which politics is seen as culturally enacted. Less attention has been paid to the technologies associated…
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The incipit of a recently-dated piece from AdnKronos which seems to be being picked up by some other papers: An international team of archaeologists claims to have unearthed the 2000-year-old birthplace of the Roman emperor, Vespasian, north of the Italian capital. Vespasian ruled the Roman empire in the first century A.D. and was behind the…
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Hadrian, the man who built the wall | Morpeth Herald.
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The Fitzwilliam is certainly getting a lot of press attention, and each item revealed seems for interesting than the next. The Daily Mail, ferinstance, is highlighting the exhibition of a Roman precursor to the Swiss Army Knife: The world’s first Swiss Army knife’ has been revealed – made 1,800 years before its modern counterpart. An…
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