November 26, 2011
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Tip o’ the pileus to David Emery, who sent this one in a few weeks ago (yes, it’s been languishing in my mailbox) … a very lengthy, interesting article on the Getty Aphrodite return in Smithsonian Magazine, written by Ralph Frammolino of Chasing Aphrodite fame: via The Goddess Goes Home (Smithsonian Magazine)
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An interesting item the folks at the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum were promoting back during Hallowe’en: A Roman Lead Curse Tablet … it involves imprecations hoping for a malaria-like fever to be imposed on someone, specifically before the end of February. Considering that February is a ‘month of fever’, I wonder whether the curse-tablet folks…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Submissions are invited for the 2012 issue of New Voices in Classical Reception Studies. The journal is particularly concerned with promoting the work of scholars (both early career and established) who are new to publishing in the field of Classical Reception Studies. Articles are welcome on any and all aspects…
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In Classical Receptions Journal 3.2: Simon Perris, Proems, codas, and formalism in Homeric reception … Table of Contents for the November 2011 issue …
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From the Cyprus Mail: AUSTRALIAN archaeologists have announced the end of their excavations in Nea Paphos uncovering more of the mediaeval walls built on top of an ancient theatre, and exploring a water fountain a stone’s throw away. A team of 20 archaeologists and students from the University of Sydney opened up two trenches between…
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