March 11, 2013
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seen on various lists: PLUTARCH AMONG THE BARBARIANS Inaugural Meeting of the North American Sections of the International Plutarch Society At the Banff Centre Banff, Alberta, Canada http://www.banffcentre.ca/ March 13-16, 2014 Please send abstracts of 300-400 words to Noreen Humble (nmhumble AT ucalgary.ca) by April 30, 2013 Cultural identity is an important concern for writers…
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Continuing Emma Woolerton’s series in the Guardian: Lucretius, part 6: not designed for life Lucretius, part 7: becoming a god Lucretius, part 8: teachers and pupils … follow the breadcrumbs back for previous installments: More Lucretiana
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There’s an interesting post at Gizmodo that keeps popping up in my various feeds about the whether the ancient Romans were capable of building a digital computer … some interesting stuff and the author admits being a computer engineer and not a Roman historian. Still, he’s dying to experiment and throws down a challenge which…
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Last week the Telegraph devoted a major portion of its newspaper to the upcoming Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum … I think I’ve managed to find all the links, all of which have plenty of images and all the Alastair Sooke things have videos. Some familiar names have penned most of these…
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… in Classical Greek … I think I missed a couple weeks’ worth of this, but here’s the latest headline: Ἆρα τίς Πάπας γενήσεται;
rogue classicism 