February 2011
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Not sure why humans seem to have obsessions with producing ‘top however-many lists’ of ‘whatever’. This time, it Time Magazine using the format to mark what would have been Ronald Reagan’s 100th anniversary. The ‘common thread’ is “world leaders whose legacies have stood the test of time”. Coming in at number two (after Gandhi) is…
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Classicist Philip Freeman weighs in: Guest opinion: What would Alexander do in Egypt today? | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com. Here’s the majority of the piece: In the winter of 332 BC, Egypt was in chaos. Years of oppressive government seemed at an end as the hated Persian rulers were hiding from angry mobs…
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Seen on the Rome-arch list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): The Department of Classical Studies invites applications for a one-year term position beginning August 2011. There is a possibility that the position will be renewed for a second year depending on the needs of the…
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Interesting phrase mentioned in Schott’s Vocab at the New York Times: The Thucydides Trap | NYTimes.com.
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From Bryn Mawr Now: For the second year in a row, a graduate of Bryn Mawr’s department of classical and Near Eastern archaeology has won the Archaeological Institute of America’s Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement, the organization’s highest honor. Susan Irene Rotroff ’68 was awarded the medal at the Institute’s annual meeting in…
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