August 2012
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Meant to mention this yesterday — when it was already a day late — but this past Sunday was the fifteenth anniversary of the establishment of Bill Thayer’s Lacus Curtius website. It’s been stunningly important for the presence of Classics on this internet thing and should be applauded for it’s longevity! If you’ve never been…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Ian Spoor for sending this one in from the BBC … I wasn’t aware of this controversy: Every French schoolchild has learned about Alesia. It was the battle in which Julius Caesar beat the Gauls under Vercingetorix, thus bringing France into the Roman world. Had it gone the other way,…
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With West Nile being back in the news (as it is around here, anyway) it seems inevitable that someone will — once again — suggest a connection between that and the death of Alexander the Great. And so it isn’t surprising to read Did Alexander the Great die from West Nile? in the Mother Nature…
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Seen on various lists: The University of Toronto Department of Classics invites applications for a tenure-stream appointment in the field of Roman History. This position will be at the rank of Assistant Professor and will commence July 1, 2013. An appropriate doctoral degree in Classics or a closely related discipline must have been earned by…
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The incipit of a lengthy biography at the Poetry Foundation: Poet, editor, and translator Daryl Hine was born in 1936 in British Columbia. He studied Classics and philosophy at McGill University, and he earned his PhD in comparative literature from the University of Chicago. The editor of Poetry from 1968-78, Hine was also a highly…
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