November 2012

  • Ancient World Open Bibliographies: Bibliography: Ostia.

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  • Blogosphere ~ A Gift for Pan

    Laudator Temporis Acti: A Gift for Pan.

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  • posted with permission: The Art of Biography in Antiquity. By Tomas Hägg. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xv + 496. Hardcover, £70.00/$110.00. ISBN 978-1-107-01669-9. Reviewed by Joseph Geiger, Hebrew University of Jerusalem This book is neither an enquiry into the evolution of the genre of ancient biography (if such it was)…

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  • From Hurriyet: Archaeologists are hopeful that Culture and Tourism Minister Ertuğrul Günay will announce the return of the Orpheus Mosaic to Turkey from the Dallas Museum of Art in the U.S. on the eve of new year, daily Hürriyet reported. Günay had previously hinted that the ministry would return a specific historical artifact that was…

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  • The latest Carnivalesque is out and, as always, is very scant in terms of the ancient side of things (I really don’t know why … our Blogosphere posts should indicate that there’s a heckuva lot to choose from) but what it does include is very interesting … a post by Helen King on Roman Medicine…

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