May 17, 2012
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The ORBIS project was getting a lot of attention on social media last week, and sadly scrolled down beyond my visual level in my mailbox … happily, however, the fine folks at Stanford just put out a nice press release describing the project: Imagine you’re in Rome, it’s 205 CE, and you’ve got to figure…
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The folks over at the place that turns out incredibly expensive (it seems to me) books have come out with a realllllllllllllllllllly nice font package. Here’s a bit of their blurb: After careful consideration, Brill has taken the initiative of designing a typeface. Named “the Brill”, it presents complete coverage of the Latin script with…
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Seen on the Classicists list: ‘Art in the Making: Approaches to the Carving of Stone’ The Art of Making in Antiquity is a two-year project funded by the Leverhulme Trust and based at the Departments of Classics and of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. The project develops an innovative approach to Roman sculpture by…
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Seen on the Classicists list: In Memory of Alan Rodger: A Conference on Legal History and Roman Law Conference site http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/law/research/legalhistory/aconferenceinmemoryofalanrodger/ Friends and colleagues of Alan Rodger will meet in his memory at the University of Glasgow, on 7-8 September 2012, for a conference on legal history and Roman law. Alan Rodger, Lord Rodger of…
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Seen on the Classicists list: A reminder about this event in June. Details also at http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/Forthcoming-Events/ 16 June 2012: Imperial Greek Epic day Please join us on 16 June 2012 in the Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College, for a day devoted to the wonderful world of imperial Greek epic. The event is designed to be…
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