February 7, 2012
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salve magistra: AWBC: Simonides and the Poetry Industry.
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An interesting class project … from the Johns Hopkins News-Letter: The classics department might normally get the brush-off, but not after this intersession. The students in Robert Powers’s intersession class, Retelling the Ancient Story, worked together to produce 10 short plays and films that revised old myths into scandalous new stories. The students had two…
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Nice feature in Athens News: ANCIENT Greece is remembered for many things, but one of its greatest legacies is drama. Today, in a technologically developed world where dramatic and comedic performances are easily accessible even on tiny, hand-held electronic devices, the performing arts are promoted incessantly as commercial products and seem to have become as…
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Adrian Murdoch continues the series with the last pagan emperor of Rome: Julian the Apostate: Emperors of Rome
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2012.02.12: Julia L. Shear, Polis and Revolution: Responding to Oligarchy in Classical Athens. 2012.02.11: Andreas Kakoschke, Die Personennamen im römischen Britannien. Alpha-Omega, Reihe A, Bd 259. 2012.02.10: Ramsay MacMullen, The Earliest Romans: a Character Sketch. 2012.02.09: Katharina Volk, Ovid. Blackwell introductions to the classical world. 2012.02.08: Stuart Gillespie, English Translation and Classical Reception: Towards a…
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