August 2011
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It’s always interesting to see how non-Western cultures deal with our subject matter. This is a book reviewish/hypish thing from the Iran Book News Agency: Seyyed Abdolhadi Ghazayi said his book deals with the philosophy of Socrates and the backgrounds to the emergence of his philosophy. Referring to the history of philosophy before Socrates, Ghazayi…
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Another tantalizingly brief item from Novinite: Bulgarian archeologist announced Friday the latest precious and unique finds in the country, discovered near the village of Mogilets in the area of the town of Omurtag in northeastern Bulgaria. 100 objects have been found during the digs of 5 tombs. The area around Mogilets is the most researched…
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Tip o’ the pileus to the Huffington Post who brings up Putin’s dive which we mentioned the other day and links to a video of the ‘adventurer’ on the dive … ecce: As my late father would say, “Don’t eat that Elmer … that’s bullsh**” … such staged garbage … they’re in less than…
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Interesting article on the Ars Amatoria up at the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers blog (I thing it’s a blog) which mentions, inter alia: Then there’s another theory that has bounced around scholars for the last century or so: Ovid never was exiled. The main reason for this theory is that the only record of…
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Today it’s a bit different … the Classics Confidential folks are interviewing the folks responsible for staging Seneca’s Medea back in February: There’s a somewhat disturbing trailer for the production at the Oxford Medea webpage (blog?) as well … There are also some clips from other productions of Medea (movie treatments) … Pasolini’s has always…
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