August 14, 2012
-
posted with permission: H. M. Roisman and C. A. E. Luschnig, Euripides’ Electra: A Commentary. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture. Norman, OK: Oklahoma University Press, 2011. Pp. xvii + 366. Paper, $32.95. ISBN 978-0-8061-4119-0. Reviewed by Karelisa Hartigan, University of Florida What a pleasure it was to see this commentary arrive on my desk. Having…
-
posted with permission: Gonda van Steen, Theatre of the Condemned: Classical Greek Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands. Classical Presences. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xiv + 354. Hardcover, £71.00/ $125.00. ISBN 978-0-19-957288-5. Reviewed by Betine van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham Theatre of the Condemned deals with a topic that has…
-
For those of you who collect images of ancient laptops and ipads, here’s a tweet that should be of interest: https://twitter.com/rainnwilson/status/234062966243328000
-
I thought I had posted this the other day, but I think my internet went kablooey …. in any event, this was posted at the Classics International group on Facebook and features Bettany Hughes, Charlotte Higgins, and Edith Hall:
-
Another tantalizingly brief item from Novinite: Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered a Thracian settlement during the first ever excavations in the town of Tsarevo on the southern Black Sea coast. The team is led by Milen Nikolov, an archaeologist from the Regional History Museum in the Black Sea city of Burgas. The settlement is very close…