Year: 2012

Images of Ancient Childbirth

~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ 1 Comment

Just cleaning out my emailbox a bit more and recalling an online discussion back in February in various fora (Twitter, Classics list, elsewhere) about images of ancient childbirth/midwives. It resulted in a nice blog post by Caroline Lawrence:

… and I just put together what I hope is an incipient page of such images at Pinterest:

… please let me know if you have some that I’ve missed …

[tip o’ the pileus, by the way, to Terrence Lockyer, whose emails seem to be the ones I’ve saved on this]

Program in Peril: Philology at UPatras

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University of Patras
University of Patras (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is a different sort of ‘peril’ … they’re not talking about eliminating the department which includes Classics, but relocating it some 280 km away to a place of little reputation, for want of a better term. Here’s where you can sign the petition: