November 19, 2011

  • [I don’t think I mentioned this here …] Guardian Books podcast:  Rhetoric and the Iliad

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  • Folks have probably seen this already from Saturday Night Live a couple of weeks ago … took a while for it to show up in a form I could embed: … some bits work, some don’t …

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  • Seen on various lists: The DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS at the UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA is seeking to appoint a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Classics, with special interest in the pedagogy of classical languages. We seek a broadly-trained classicist who, in addition to supervising the elementary Latin program, can teach across the classics curriculum at all levels,…

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  • Seen on Rome-arch The American Academy’s Howard Comfort FAAR ’29 Summer School in Roman Pottery is accepting applications for its seventh session, to be held from 11 June to 8 July 2012. The program’s aim is to introduce the participants to the study of Roman pottery and then for them to apply their knowledge under…

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  • Sarcophagus of the Moment

    It’s from a flickr set, so I can’t put it here, but it is worth a look … very nice: Beirut, National Museum, sarcophagus with scenes from legend of Achilles, Tyre, 2nd cent. … there are four or five views of it; very high relief. Interesting front panel is very crowded, so it looks like…

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