November 26, 2011
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Weekly Weinersmith: Killgrove, Craniums, and Crowdfunding … in case you’ve missed the coverage about Dr Killgrove’s Roman DNA Project …
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Saw this mentioned on the Classics list last week … here’s the skinny from one of the official pdfs associated with the contest: The best translation of Iliad, 3.380-420 will win a prize of a class set of The Iliad and a Skype class session with translator Stephen Mitchell. The winning translation will also be…
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Interesting item which came though the email last week and I only now had a chance to read it … some excerpts: […] DAVID Guterson is proud of the risk he took in his new novel, Ed King. The Bainbridge Island, Wash. resident and author of Snow Falling on Cedars opted to retell the story…
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I’m starting the day by going through the Italian press and came across an interesting-sounding exhibition which takes an Early Bronze Age tsunami which hit the region around Salerno: via Dopo lo tsunami Salerno antica, un viaggio nel tempo. I think we need to start a list of such aquatic events in the ancient world…
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