September 30, 2012

  • seen on various lists: See also our website at www.scapat.ca ; a poster (pdf) can be downloaded at http://www.scapat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Affiche.pdf Call for papers, Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity X, The Transformation of Literary and Material Genres in Late Antiquity The tenth biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity conference will take place at the University of Ottawa,…

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  • Seen on the Classicists list: PRAISE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF CHARACTER IN LATE ANTIQUITY A conference to be held at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 10–11 May 2013 Imperial panegyrics, funeral speeches, liturgical hymns, saints’ lives: the act of praise was deeply woven into the literary and cultural fabric of late Antiquity. As these…

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  • Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews

    2012.09.59:  Marcello Spanu, The Theatre of Diokaisareia. Diokaisareia in Kilikien: ergebnisse des Surveys 2001-2006, Bd 2. 2012.09.58:  B. Richard Page, Aaron D. Rubin, Studies in Classical Linguistics in Honor of Philip Baldi. Amsterdam studies in classical philology, 17. 2012.09.57:  Andrew Robinson, Cracking the Egyptian Code: the Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion. 2012.09.56:  Tomasz Mojsik, Between…

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  • pridie kalendas octobres 480 B.C. — birth of Euripides (not sure of the source of this one) 286 A.D. — martyrdom of Victor and Ursus 420 A.D. — death of Jerome 1452 — first Gutenberg Bible printed (?)

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  • What’s New in Papyrology: Draycott, J., Approaches to Healing in Roman Egypt.

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