Classicists
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While watching the Jane Draycott interview (below) I notice I seem to have missed another Classics Confidential interview with Sebastian Heath of ISAW fame talking about what he does and that #lawdi thing we were following on Twitter a short while ago.
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The Classics Confidential folks are back with an interesting interview in which Dr Draycott talks about an anatomical votives conference she organized as well as her own work on Roman gardens.
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From the Herald: DAVID Ridgway, who has died aged 74, was the English-speaking world’s leading expert on how the ancient Greeks colonised the Mediterranean almost 3000 years ago. He passed on that knowledge during a 35-year career as lecturer, then reader in archaeology and finally reader in classics, at Edinburgh University. He and his Sardinian-born…
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There have been plenty of non-Classicist commentators dropping the word ‘tragedy’ and making all sorts of facile comparisons to the ancient world in regards to the ongoing debt crisis in Greece … finally, a Classicist — Oxford’s Armand D’Angour — wades in with some useful comparanda. From the BBC: What advice would the ancient Greeks…
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Seen on various lists (by John Hilton) … we await a more formal obituary: The Classics discipline at UKZN (Howard College) regrets to announce the death of an eminent colleague. Dr. Steven Jackson (8/12/1946-26/5/2012) was lecturer and later senior lecturer at the University of Natal from 1989 to 2000. He obtained his M.A. at Queen’s…
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