February 2011
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This time they’re discussing his ‘orientation’: Alexander The Great: Gay or Straight? – Booked – Reading unbound – Forbes.
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Lengthy piece in the Miami Herald on the ongoing popularity of Gladiator/Roman movies … along the way, they interview some Classicists: From the biblical epics of the ’50s to the toga dramas of the ’60s through more recent hits such as “300,” “Gladiator,” “Braveheart” and TV series such as “Hercules,” “Xena: Warrior Princess,” “Rome” and…
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From the University of Reading comes a nice Valentine’s Day tie in: With Valentine’s Day fast approaching romance is in the air and this year the University of Reading has played the ultimate role of Cupid. Dr Peter Kruschwitz and Virginia Campbell from the University’s Department of Classics have used their expertise to reunite a…
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So Daniel Mendelsohn wrote a scathing review of the tv series Mad Men and someone didn’t like it … an excerpt from an account at the New York Times (which has all the relevant links, of course): Mr. Peck is perhaps better known for not liking things than liking them (see, e.g., his collection of…
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Catching up on a pile of backlogged email, I was gobsmacked to read this excerpt from an upcoming auction announcement … from Auction Central News (inter alia): The most extraordinary of all items in the sale is the actual mummified hand of Cleopatra, to be auctioned with documentation. The preserved, mummified left hand has an…
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