February 2011
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Watching the events in Libya this week, it’s kind of interesting how journalists et al seemed to be searching for an appropriate ‘crazy imperator’ label to fit Qaddafi with. Shortly after his strange speech on Tuesday, Arab News picked the obvious: Watching his TV speech to the Libyan people and the world on Tuesday night,…
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A very nice account: Each spring, for 30 years, classics professor Barry Powell led nearly 500 UW-Madison students in Classical Myth, considered a backbone course for the humanities on campus. So his views on the topic might surprise some former students. “There’s no such thing as classical myth,” says Powell. “It really doesn’t exist.” Unlike…
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… including an interesting observation on the ‘excluding’ of females from the category of great orators: What makes a great speech? |The Guardian.
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I guess it was bound to happen, what with Abe Lincoln fighting zombies and all: New Vampire Series May Leave You Hungry For More!.
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From the Daily Review Atlas: John Gruber-Miller, professor of classics at Cornell College, will deliver Monmouth College’s 27th annual Bernice L. Fox Classics Lecture on Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the Wells Theater. Titled “Peeking into a Periegete’s Mind: Probing Pausanias’s ‘Description of Greece,’” the lecture is free and open to the public. “The…
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