Classicists
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Assorted tidbits that have accumulated over the past while … Timothy Howe is amongst a handful who were granted tenure at St. Olaf: St. Olaf announces faculty promotions, tenure Peter Struck was talking about ‘Ancient Heroes and Superheroes’ in an appropriate venue: Batman, Superman leap off the page at Penn Museum superhero event Marie Bolchazy…
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I’m trying out some new ‘organizational principles’ for certain types of post … one category will be devoted to items where a particular Classicist and/or their work is the focus, to wit: Paul Cartledge: The myths of ‘ancient Greece’ dispelled (Charlotte Higgins in the Guardian) Robert Graves: From Meccania to Atlantis – Part 9: Goodbye…
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A reviewish sort of thing of a biography of Maurice Bowra in the New Statesman includes this tantalizing bit, inter alia: He was a scholar of ancient Greek literature but, despite a string of books, produced nothing exceptional (one contemporary compared his prose to “a man writing luggage labels”) and failed to get an Oxford…
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