April 17, 2012
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I love Art Daily and think it’s probably the best daily newsletter on the interwebs, but when their photo of the day is this rather unflattering shot: … my only reaction is, “Seriously?”
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posted with permission: Michael Squire, The Art of the Body: Antiquity and its Legacy. Ancients and Moderns Series. London: I. B. Tauris / New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 240. Paperback, £12.99/$24.95. ISBN 978-1-845-11931-7 / 978-0-19-538081-1. Reviewed by Michael Broder, University of South Carolina According to series editor Phiroze Vasunia, the Ancients…
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Posted with permission: Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. ix + 910. Hardcover, £100.00/$165.00, ISBN 978-0-521-19605-5; paperback, £40.00/$65.00, ISBN 978-0-521-12725-7. Reviewed by Graeme Clarke, Australian National University Good history writing brings events of the past to the…
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Seen on the Classicists list: The Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, in collaboration with the University of Lausanne, is hosting an international conference on « Ancient Lyric Poetry in the City : Horace’s Odes in the Mirror of Archaic Greek Lyric Poetry », which will be held in Lyon from June 6th to 8th…
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ante diem xv kalendas maias ludi Cereri (day 6) 69 A.D. — suicide of the emperor wannabe Otho (this might have happened on April 16)
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