July 2013
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Ovid as reading teacher via Ovid’s Metamorphoses
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Joshua Arthurs. Excavating Modernity: The Roman Past in Fascist Italy. Ithaca Cornell University Press, 2012. Illustrations. 232 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-4998-7. Reviewed by Eleanor Chiari (University College London) Published on H-SAE (June, 2013) Commissioned by Michael B. Munnik Excavating a Fascist Future: A New Study of the Fascist Idea of “Romanità” Joshua Arthurs presents…
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Catching up with almost a month’s worth: 2013.06.13: Branka Migotti, The Archaeology of Roman Southern Pannonia: The State of Research and Selected Problems in the Croatian Part of the Roman Province of Pannonia. BAR International Series, S2393, 2012. 2013.06.14: Trevor Bryce, The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History. 2013.06.15: Helmut Kyrieleis,…
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Another interesting bit of synchronicity over the past few weeks has been some interest in Classical testicles (which is fun to say out loud) … first, in the latest issue of Rosetta, there was a study: J. König: ‘Ancient Greco-Roman Views of the Testicle in Celsus and Beyond‘ (pdf) … meanwhile, there also came to…
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If you’re looking to incorporate some Classical larnin’ into your science class or whatever, you might want to check out a couple of items by the Tribune-Review’s Wordguy Rob Kyff, who has had a couple of items on the origins of some of the names in the periodic table: The Word Guy: Learn to master…
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