April 24, 2010
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Some of the interesting items in Christie’s upcoming antiquities auction include this torso of Aphrodite (from a 19th century Swiss collection) (the inline links will take you to the ‘official page’): A very interesting ‘young satyr’ with a panther at his feet (acquired pre-1970): A bone figure of Aphrodite (left) and a doll (right) (acquired…
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Middle Comedy and the “Satyric” Style – Carl A. Shaw Menander’s Theophoroumene between Greece and Rome – Sebastiana Nervegna The Tyrant Lists: Tacitus’ Obituary of Petronius – Holly Haynes Unseemly Professions and Recruitment in Late Antiquity: Piscatores and Vegetius Epitoma 1.7.1-2 – Michael B. Charles Reconsidering the History of Latin and Sabellic Adpositional Morphosyntax –…
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Seen on CJ Online (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): Call for Proposals: Classical Commentary Writers’ Workshop Georgetown University, October 14–16, 2010: Latin Texts Proposals are solicited for participation in the sixth annual Classical Commentary Writers’ Workshop, to be held on October 14–16, 2010 at Georgetown…
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This one seems to be making the rounds again: Remains unearthed in Nottinghamshire could be an unknown Roman temple, archaeologists have claimed. Excavations on the Minster C of E School site in Southwell between September 2008 and May 2009 revealed walls, ditches and ornate stones. The team analysing the finds said the shape and quality…
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Islam? Here’s an excerpt from the middle of a very long book review of Holy Warriors: Islam and the Demise of Classical Civilization by John O’Neill at Europe News: Until the first quarter of the seventh century Classical Civilization was alive and well in the Middle East and North Africa — even more so than…
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