July 28, 2012

  • Another tip o’ the pileus to Ellen Bauerle for pointing us to this iPad retelling of Odysseus’ voyage; first, check out the video: Looks like it’s geared towards the younger set, but I’m sure some rogueclassicism readers would get a kick out of it. I haven’t had a chance to download and play with it,…

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  • Not sure how many folks are looking at the Classical Conference Calendar I set up (click the tab above), but there are quite a few things listed there now. Just reviewing them, however, it seems to be rather Eurocentric (specifically uk-centric), and I’m putting out an appeal to the various departments in North America that…

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  • 2012.07.50:  Paul Curtis, Stesichoros’s Geryoneis. Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 333. 2012.07.49:  Claire Holleran, April Pudsey, Demography and the Graeco-Roman World: New Insights and Approaches. 2012.07.48:  Dorigen Caldwell, Lesley Caldwell, Rome: Continuing Encounters between Past and Present. 2012.07.47:  Daryn Lehoux, What Did the Romans Know?: an Inquiry into Science and…

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  • Interesting news item from Rome Reports: … I did some poking around, and this seems to be the institution(s) involved (in case you’re looking to do this next year) …

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  • Also Seen: Diocleia

    My spiders brought back a post from the {feuilleton} blog on some games I was unware of: the Diocleia at Megara: Greek games … which seems to have all the info that’s ever been done on this. There doesn’t seem to have been any research into this in a century or so …

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