November 18, 2012
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Incipit of a piece from Statecollege.com, which is interesting, perhaps, given former coach Joe Paterno’s obsession with the Aeneid: Very little time was needed for John Urschel, one of the most thoughtful members of this Penn State football team, to turn to literature to describe Michael Mauti. “He reminds me of Odysseus,” began Urschel, a…
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2012.11.33: M. L. West, Hellenica: Selected Papers on Greek Literature and Thought. Volume I: Epic. 2012.11.32: A. Borrut, M. Debié, A. Papaconstantinou, D. Pieri, J.-P. Sodini, Le Proche-orient De Justinien aux Abbassides: peuplement et dynamiques spatiales. Actes du colloque “Continuités de l’Occupation entre les Périodes Byzantine et Abbasside au Proche-Orient, VIIe-IXe Siècles”, Paris, 18-20 octobre…
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The incipit of a piece in the Boston Globe: In 15 years of teaching, University of Pennsylvania classicist Peter Struck has guided perhaps a few hundred students annually in his classes on Greek and Roman mythology through the works of Homer, Sophocles, Aeschylus and others — ‘‘the oldest strands of our cultural DNA.’’ But if…
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ante diem xiv kalendas decembres Mercatus — in the wake of the lengthy ludi Plebeii, the Romans needed a few days to restock their cupboards ca. 64 A.D. — upside down crucifixion of Peter 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Hesychius of Antioch 1718 — premiere of Voltaire’s Oedipe in Paris
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The Lyre and the Lexicon: Caroline Bird’s The Trojan Women after Euripides: an informal review.
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