Hodie est a.d. III Id. Octobres 2772 AUC ~ 15 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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Public Facing Classics
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Synopsis: After the death of Alexander the Great, Bactria came under Seleucid rule before gaining its independence under the Diodotid and Euthydemid kings. In the second part of my interview with historian and author Tristan Hughes, we discuss how the Bactrian Kingdom was born, preserved itself against multiple attempts at Seleucid reconquest, and finally met its end.
- ClassiCasts, Episode 1: Dr. James Newhard (Professor and Chair of Classics) | Department of Classics
In this inaugural episode, Dr. Overholt speaks with Dr. James Newhard, Professor and Chair of Classics and Director of the Center for Historical Landscapes, about the field of classics and what types of career opportunities majoring in classics can open.
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Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Response: Stray on Jenkyns on Stray, Classics in Britain: Scholarship, Education, and Publishing 1800-2000.
- [BMCR] Gerard J.P. O’Daly, Plotinus. Ennead I.1: What is the Living Thing? What is Man? The ‘Enneads’ of Plotinus with Philosophical Commentaries. Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2017.
- [BMCR] Andrew Hui, A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.
- Cojocaru, V., Ruscu L., Castelli T., Pazsint A.-I., éd. (2019) : Advances in Ancient Black Sea Region : Historiography, Archaeology, Religion, (Pontica et Mediterranea VIII), | Spartokos a lu
- [Everitt, Alexander the Great] Book review: Author reexamines the life and death of Alexander | Arts | fredericksburg.com
- “The Emperors and the Jews” Makes History Come Alive – The Jewish Voice /
Dramatic Receptions
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- Open Rank Professorship in Digital Humanities and Pre-Modern Studies – University of Notre Dame
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- Virtual Pompeii: GU students time traveling in class using Lithodomos VR technology | The Spokesman-Review
- Making the Classics Relevant – The Catalyst
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- Who Decides Which Books Are “Great?” | JSTOR Daily
- The Minotaur of Crete Moved Greece, Rome, Art, Literature, Myth – The National Herald
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it should thunder today, it portends good things for commerce; also whoever controls the government with a heavy hand will not remain strong for very long.
… adapted from the text and translation of:
Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)
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