Classicists
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Nice feature in the News Observer: In a narrow seminar room at Duke University, Peter Burian leads 14 students through ancient Rome to the palatial Baths of Caracalla, where 1,600 Romans at a time could soak in pools of cool, warm and hot water. His mellifluous voice narrates the slideshow from his laptop. The imperial…
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This is one of those posts that has been on the backburner for a while because things just kept coming up, both on my side of the keyboard and Mary Beard’s, so I better get this out before it becomes a book unto itself. In any event, obviously in conjunction with her very interesting (from…
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Nice item about our longtime interent friend Judith Lynn Sebesta! From the Yankton Press and Dakotan: Judith Lynn Sebesta, Ph.D., professor of classics and chair of the department of history at the University of South Dakota, is the 2012 recipient of the Monsignor James Doyle Humanities Teaching Award. Presented by the College of Arts and…
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From Cambridge City News: Cambridge professor Colin Austin, one of the world’s leading specialists on ancient Greek texts, has died of cancer at the age of 69. Australian-born Prof Austin was educated in England and France – his mother tongue was French. He studied at Oxford and came to Trinity Hall as a research fellow…
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From the New York Times: Bernard M. W. Knox, an authority on the works of Sophocles, a prolific scholar and the founding director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, died July 22 at his home in Bethesda, Md. He was 95. The cause was a heart attack, said his son, MacGregor. An American born and…
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