December 2012
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The Homer Multitext: The HMT Manuscript Browser · News and Updates.
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Love of History Blog: Girl dying from the plague in the Peloponnesian War.
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Congratulations to Mary Beard, who has been awarded an OBE for services to Classical Scholarship. Very nice that such things continue to be recognized …. here are Dr Beard’s own thoughts on the matter: OBE? (A Don’s Life) FWIW, I tried to track down other Classics types who have been similarly honoured and they are…
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posted with permission Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity. By Karol B. Wight. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011. Pp. 128; 92 color and 2 b/w illustrations, 36 line drawings, 1 map. Paper, $20.00/£13.99. ISBN 978-1-60606-053-7. Reviewed by Susan Walker, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford The well-chosen cover photograph of a multi-colored ribbon flask, a product of…
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Very interesting item at History in an Hour … here’s a tease: During the third century BCE, the city of Alexandria was home to a remarkable event in the development of ancient medicine as two physicians, named Herophilus and Erasistratus, conducted ground-breaking investigations into internal human anatomy. This research was important not only because it…
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