October 2010
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This is kind of interesting, and I might have to track this book down … from an interview in Newsweek with Tom Payne about his book Fame, inter alia: You bring up the theme of sacrifice—for example, you link Britney Spears’s meltdown with the ritual killing of Iphigenia, who, legend has it, was sacrificed so…
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From Athens News: Professor Yannis Sakellarakis was born in Athens in 1936. He studied at the University of Athens and read for a PhD at Heidelberg University. He was an instructor at the universities of Athens, Heidelberg, and Hamburg. He gave lectures and presented papers in symposiums and conferences around the world, including Oslo and…
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From the Sofia News Agency … it would be nice to have photos of some of this stuff: Bulgarian police have shattered a crime group trafficking archaeological finds, including breath-taking items such as 2-meter marble statue of Aphrodite. The organized crime group carried out illegal archaeological digs at the ancient Roman city of Ulpia Oescus…
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Seen on various lists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Boston University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture invites applications and nominations for a tenure-track position as assistant professor of Greek art and architecture to begin September 1, 2011 (pending final budgetary approval). Ph.D. required; teaching…
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From the Telegraph: During a career that began in the 1950s, she led many excavations in the Mediterranean and was noted for her skills as an illustrator and her work on the technicalities of ancient boat-building and nautical equipment, particularly the use of stone anchors and their typology. Among her most important projects was an…
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