April 2011
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Tip o’ the pileus to Gillian Palmer for sending this one in … seems there’s going to be a dramatization of Catullus’ life on BBC 3 tomorrow; after that, available as a ‘listen again’ thing for a week (YMMV). Here’s the official blurb with a link to the page: Frederic Raphael’s new play A Thousand…
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Rival theories on Laocoon's arm blogged on @albertis_window: http://goo.gl/GYpWf – via @3pipenet — Terrence Lockyer (@TLockyer) April 3, 2011 … I wonder how this would fit into Lynn Catterson’s theory on Michelangelo actually sculpting the Laocoon (see, e.g., Scholar: Michelangelo faked dazzling archaeological find)
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The incipit of a piece at the CBC on the war in Afghanistan: When a Canadian soldier dies in Afghanistan (as more than 150 have so far), it makes front-page news. In Ontario, a stretch of the 401 has been renamed the Highway of Heroes, and Canadians pay tribute by lining the overpasses from Trenton…
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Bibliography: Fatalism and Determinism in Ancient Greek Philosophy | Ancient World Open Bibliographies.
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(tip o’ the pileus to Barbara Saylor Rodgers): William F. Wyatt Jr., 78, professor emeritus and former chairman of the department of classics at Brown University, and a prolific contributor to the op-ed page of The Providence Journal, died March 25 in The Miriam Hospital, Providence. Wyatt’s op-ed pieces over the years ranged across an…
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