January 14, 2012
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Tip o’ the pileus to Diana Wright for passing this one along from Athens News: A Roman-era engraved marble slab was unearthed on Tuesday on the island of Santorini near the settlement of Perissa, during excavations for a water supply and sewage system that were being conducted under the supervision of the 2nd Ephorate for…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom: the use of textiles, clothing and cloth production as metaphor, symbol and narrative device in Greek and Latin literature A one day round-table at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen 1st June 2012 Ancient…
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Seen on the Classicists list Menander in Contexts 23 – 25 July 2012 Lincoln Hall, University of Nottingham It is now over a century since Menander made his first great step back from the shades with the publication of the Cairo codex, and over half a century since we were first able to read one…
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Seen on the Classicists list: The UCL Classical Drama Society in association with the Bloomsbury Theatre is pleased to announce our 2012 performance of Euripides’ Hippolytus. The play will be performed on Tuesday 7th (7:30pm), Wednesday 8th (2:30pm & 7:30pm) and Thursday 9th (2:30pm & 7:30pm) February 2012. The performance should last approximately two hours.…
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Given the apparent ubiquity of such things in ancient times and the salacious proclivities of the press, I’m genuinely surprised we don’t hear more of finds of this sort of thing … from Lynn News: LYNN Museum has put on show a rare 2,000-year-old solid gold pendant with an unmistakeable shape after successfully acquiring it…
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