December 3, 2011

  • Assorted notices are filling my box of some free content at Greece and Rome … on which immediately caught my eye: Aislinn Melchior, Caesar in Vietnam: Did Roman Soldiers Suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? Here’s the abstract: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) made its first appearance in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in…

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  • From a UCincinnati press release: Education, jobs, religion and even the cultural effects of bilingualism were as topical in the ancient world as they are today. All of these topics and more are featured in translations of ancient papyrus in the University of Cincinnati-based journal, “Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists,” due out Dec.…

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  • Venus Still Causing a Stir

    Back in February of 2010, the German news magazine Focus published a cover critical of the way Greece was occupying its place in the European Union and there was a big brouhaha back then … I thought I had posted about it here, but it might have been on Twitter or Facebook (I might have…

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