December 22, 2011
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I keep getting interesting hints of things at the Instructables site and while looking for those, I came across this diy project: Spartan, Greek or Trojan type Helmet It’s made from cardstock, so it’s within most folks’ budgets, I suspect ….
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MSN has an interview with Martha Lane Fox that doesn’t have much ClassCon in it other than this interesting bit: If you could give an hour to anybody (alive of dead) who would you choose and why? Haha, now that’s a great question because one of the things that lots of people have said to…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Brazil-UK conference on Aspects of Rhetoric 15-17 February 2012 King’s College London organised by Martin Dinter in co-operation with the Centre of Hellenic Studies. For centuries and across continents the languages of Greek and Latin have brought cultures, generations and individuals together. Our set of events in February 2011 is…
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Seen on the Classicists list: September 6th – 8th, 2012, University of Glasgow, UK: ‘The Legacy of the Roman Republican Senate’ Republican Rome has been a powerful and contested constitutional model in the western political tradition. But the Senate is a relatively neglected element in the model. This symposium, supported financially by the British Academy,…
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Mary Beard gave the Robert B. Silvers lecture at the New York Public Library a little bit ago and it’s now available on the web. Here’s the NYPL’s intro to her talk: Classicist Mary Beard asks Do the Classics Have a Future? Beard is famous for her scholarly distinction and ability to energize academic and…
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