March 6, 2010
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After a busy week, I can finally look into some of the things flittering across my twitterfeed and facing me on Facebook and filling my email box. Apparently, a nail believed to be from the crucifixion (not just any crucifixion, of course, although it seems to be mostly the headline writers who make this connection)…
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In case you missed it: … in the words of Chad Ochocinco, “Child please ..” Saucy ‘Venus de Milo’ snowman covered up after neighbour complains | mirror.co.uk.
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Seen in the Chronicle: A classics professor says students in his Latin classes are usually lousy translators of Horace and Ovid—mainly because they don’t understand the cultural references in their poetry. So now the professor, Roger Mr. Travis Jr., requires students to do weekly role-playing exercises online to put themselves in the shoes (or sandals)…
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Elton Barker et al., ‘Mapping an ancient historian in a digital age: the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Image Archive (HESTIA)’ via Leeds International Classical Studies.
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Charlotte Higgins writes an interesting piece in Varsity … here’s the concluding bit: The value of the classics, like the value of the arts, is difficult to articulate, verging on the intangible. Their value is about their very remoteness from ordinary life – the fact that they can provide a place where the intellect can…
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