July 2011
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My spiders have clearly been wandering down interesting sideroads on the information super highway … they brought back an image from Wikicommons, and it turns out the whole mid-19th century book is online at the Posner Library. There is lots of text, but the ‘comics’ are really interesting and could spice up a lecture or…
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My spiders brought back this interesting blog post about the Foulis brothers’ mid-eighteenth century edition of Homer’s works. Here’s a bit of a tease in medias res: “Robert Foulis (1707-1776) and Andrew Foulis (1712-1775) were at the forefront of the print trade in 18th century Glasgow and they contributed greatly to the development of Enlightenment…
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Interesting that hot on the heels of the Carthage podcast we posted yesterday (scroll down a bit), that we get another one from ABC (Australia) Radio. In this case, they’re talking with Richard Miles, who is an ancient historian from the University of Sydney, and who has recently wordprocessed a tome called Carthage Must Be…
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Rather than the usual tossing off of the phrase ‘tragedy’, this one actually applies the Poetics to Amy Winehouse’s death: via The destruction of Amy Winehouse: a proper Greek tragedy | The First Post.
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I posted this on Twitter last night, but there are probably a lot of non-Twitter folks who would be interested in this post at Ancient Digger: Ancient Digger Archaeology: Best Graduate Schools for Classical Archaeology.
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