March 11, 2012
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… the next time you text something and autocorrect turns it into a job loss opportunity … according to a piece in Science 2.0, inter alia: Hermes most recently invented the digital technology. Internet and smart phones are the new messengers. They wear winged cases and lids so they can uplift information over iClouds. They…
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For reasons I can’t quite figure out — other than, perhaps, that the author might be vacationing on Cephalonia — the New York Times is presenting Bittlestone’s theory about Odysseus and Paliki/Ithaca as if it were something new. Here’s a taste in medias res: Homer recounts Odysseus’s troubled journey back from a military entanglement abroad,…
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2012.03.17: Oliver Taplin, Rosie Wyles, The Pronomos Vase and its Context. 2012.03.16: Robert D. Luginbill, Author of Illusions: Thucydides’ Rewriting of the History of the Peloponnesian War. 2012.03.15: Véronique Krings, Catherine Valenti, Les antiquaires du Midi: savoirs et mémoires, XVIe-XIXe siècle. 2012.03.14: Alexandra Alexandridou, The Early Black-figured Pottery of Attika in Context (c. 630-570 BCE).…
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Lucas Livingston alerted me to the existence of his podcasts (vodcasts?) on youtube dealing with ancient art of various cultures and I’m stuck wondering how I missed this one. Here’s the latest installment on the Fasces: We’ll definitely be putting this one into our regular rotation. I’ll go through the archives and do a bit…
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My spiders brought one back with a CC license, so ecce: Source: Early 3rd Century AD Sarcophagus of a Married Couple from Laodikya … I can’t quite figure out the complete narrative here. Obviously, on the left is when the couple met; in the middle, they’re a respectable married couple … can’t figure out the…
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