July 13, 2012
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The incipit of an item from the Selkirk Advertiser: A Roman symbol of fertility found near Selkirk, shaped like an eagle emerging from a flower with a berry in its mouth, highlights the discoveries made in Scotland in this year’s Treasure Trove Report. The talisman, excavated in 2010 by a local metal detectorist between Selkirk…
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A Blogosphere version of this has probably scrolled off the page by now, so we’ll bring it up again … the opening ‘graph of the announcement should be sufficient: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) continues its strong commitment to open scholarship by providing easy, free access to past issues of Hesperia.…
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2012.07.16: Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens. Oxford classical monographs. 2012.07.15: Peter Fibiger Bang, C. A. Bayly, Tributary Empires in Global History. Cambridge Imperial and Post-colonial Studies. Eric H. Cline, Mark W. Graham, Ancient Empires: from Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam. 2012.07.14: Marguerite Johnson, Harold Tarrant, Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator.…
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My faithful spiders dragged this one back … it’s connected with the Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 exhibition at the National Gallery and is an interesting reimagining of the Diana/Actaeon thing:
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Most football-loving (of the Canadian/American variety) Classicists are probably well aware of the late Joe Paterno’s love of Vergil and the Aeneid. Back when the Penn State scandal broke out, I was monitoring assorted news coverage to see if anyone would be spinning it with a Vergil connection and there were a few. One which…
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