Classicists
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I forgot to mention this one yesterday, but our favourite Cambridge Don has been adlected as a Fellow of the British Academy! She allowed herself a little boast on her blog last week, and rightly so! Congrats!
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Image via Wikipedia From the Canadian Classical Bulletin, with the kind permission of John G. Fitch: Herbert Henry Huxley, Professor of Latin at the University of Victoria from 1968 to 1979, died on 5 May in Cambridge, England at the age of 93. Educated at Manchester Grammar School and St John’s College, Cambridge, he held…
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From the Canadian Classical Bulletin, with the kind permission of Daniel M. Millette: Michel Janon, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Ottawa from 1986 to 1995, died on May 31st, in Marseilles, France, at the age of 72. He was educated in Algiers (History and Archaeology, 1964) and earned his doctorate at the…
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Image via Wikipedia Herbert M. Howe, emeritus professor and former chair of both Classics and Integrated Liberal Studies (ILS), passed away on Tuesday, June 29 in Fort Atkinson. He was 98. His spouse and colleague in ILS, Evelyn Mitchell (Eve) Howe, passed away two days later, at age 94. A memorial service commemorating the Howes’…
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I think this is something many folks suspected … Military warmongers took over the Roman Empire in the third century. The senate, the administrative elite of the Roman empire watched from the sidelines. Dutch researcher Inge Mennen investigated the balance of power in Imperium Romanum during the ‘crisis of the third century‘. Conclusion: senators lost…
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