August 4, 2011
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Charlotte Higgins’ series in the Guardian continues: Lesson 3: family can be murder as well as a dream for a Viennese psychoanalyst Lesson 4: As Socrates found out to his cost, teaching brilliant and ambitious youths can be dangerous … the previous two installments (in case you need to catch up): What We Can Learn…
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New paper up at the Leeds International Classical Studies page (it’s a pdf): Myrto Garani, ‘Revisiting Tarpeia’s myth in Propertius (IV, 4)
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Haven’t had anything from the Classics@ folks at the Center for Hellenic Studies in a while … a couple new First Drafts: Emily Schurr, “Recreating the Creation: Reading between the Lines in the Proem of the Iliad,” July 25, 2011 Christos Strubakos, “Iliadic Lion Similies: Rethinking Heroic Greatness,” July 25, 2011 … and if you…
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As often, an item from the BBC which is subtly hyping a television program: A chance discovery of coins has led to the bigger find of a Roman town, further west than it was previously thought Romans had settled in England. The town was found under fields a number of miles west of Exeter, Devon.…
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Stephen Hodkinson talks about the changing interpretations of various aspects of Spartan society:
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