November 2012

  • Domesticating Reality: Representations of Space and Place in Antiquity Graduate Student Conference Department of Classics University of Toronto 20-21 April, 2013 Keynote speaker: Lisa Nevett, University of Michigan The interplay between culture and space in ancient thought is manifested in many ways. Not only are artistic and literary features envisioned and understood in spatial terms,…

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  • posted with permission: Nemea Valley Archaeological Project Volume I: The Early Bronze Age Village of Tsoungiza Hill. By Daniel J. Pullen. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011. Pp. xxxix + 1047. Hardcover, $150.00. ISBN 978-0-87661-922-3. Reviewed by Erika Weiberg, Uppsala University This volume succeeds in the full integration of all material…

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  • From the Sofia Globe: Archaeologists working at the Odeon site in Bulgaria’s second city of Plovdiv have found 40 silver coins said to date from the third century CE when the city was under Roman rule. The coins were said by archaeologists to have been minted during the Severan dynasty, while ruled from 193 to…

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  • Didaskalia Reviews

    Both of the production at Stratford (Ontario), which I somehow couldn’t work into my schedule this summer: Sophocles’ Elektra (Ruth Scodel) Sophocles’ Elektra (Dana E. Aspinall)

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  • Classical Words of the Day

    biblioklept (Dictionary.com) famish (Merriam Webster … maybe) Latinitweets: conjunction: -que , indeclinable => and http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) November 29, 2012 liber: free: adjective. Example sentence:Sub tyranno malo non possumus esse liberi.Translation:Under an evil tyr… http://t.co/h1txnkfO — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) November 29, 2012

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