July 2011
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Seen on the Classicists list: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: MENANDER IN CONTEXTS July 23-25, 2012 University of Nottingham, UK It is now over a century since Menander made his first great step back from the shades with the publication of the Cairo codex, and over half a century since we were first able to read one of…
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Seen on the Classicists list: “The Many Faces of a Hellenistic King” A Multi-disciplinary Conference on Hellenistic Kingship Department of Archaeology, Durham University 11th-12th November 2011 In association with the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East and the Institute of Advanced Studies “Hellenistic Kingship” is one of these notions…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Ancient and Medieval Interpretations of Aristotle’s Categories Keynote Speaker: Lloyd Gerson, University of Toronto We are pleased to invite proposals for an interdisciplinary workshop on Ancient and Medieval interpretations of Aristotle’s Categories hosted by the Franciscan University of Steubenville. To be held April 12-14, 2012. The purpose of this workshop…
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ante diem xiii kalendas sextilias ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 1) 1262 B.C. — based on the ‘Canicular Cycle’ (a.k.a. the Sothic cycle) of the Egyptians, this day is suggested for the foundation of the Pythian Games and the embarkation of Jason and the Argonauts (!) 356 B.C. — birth of Alexander the Great (one suggested…
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I often seem to begin posts of this sort with some sort of statement of why Classics is such an interesting field of study, and again I feel compelled to do so. It has been my experience — and I’m sure it’s the experience of plenty of folks who are reading this — that it…
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