April 2, 2010
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I’m sorry, but this already sounds tacky … the obligatory incipit: The planned monument of Alexander the Great in the centre of Skopje will be accompanied by music, as well as light, sound and water effects, mayor of the Skopje municipality Centar, Vladimir Todorovic, announced recently. The monument of Alexander the Great – the thorny…
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Interesting backstory, but here’s the important paragraph: In the end, though, we chose Mary Renault’s Fire From Heaven, the first volume of her trilogy about Alexander the Great, because it is exciting and vivid and takes you into an alien world; and Nina Bawden’s Birds on the Trees, a story about a middle-class family in…
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Not a Classicist or Classical Archaeologist per se, but an important find at Alexandria Troas … here’s the incipit: He stood there, unnerved by the thickets and nasty spiders surrounding him. The temperature was more than 100 degrees, but he didn’t care; he had finally found the sphendone. Last summer San Diego State exercise and…
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Lost in the mountain of email and on this weekend, apparently… this one’s going to be on CBC but I’m sure it’s on stations around the world … the incipit: BEN HUR is a gut-wrenching, action-packed drama about the struggle between the Roman Empire and its rebellious conquest Judaea, and two best friends caught in…
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Interesting feature by Murray Smith (a PhD candidate in Ancient History at Maquarie University): Passion and power: the many portraits of Pontius Pilate | Brisbane Times.
rogue classicism 