Classicists
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Tip o’ the pileus to Ron Janoff (of New York Latin Leaflet fame) for alerting us to the existence online of Alice Kober’s papers … there are a pile of (mostly handwritten) letters in there which are definitely a fascinating read and give a glimpse into how Classical research was done before email, twitter, etc.:…
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Yesterday’s New York Times brought an opEd/hypish sort of thing by the author of a book on Alice Kober, whom I had never heard of and I’m sure many of you haven’t either. Here’s some in medias res: […] Little did I realize six years ago, when I began work on a new book about…
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The official description: In the second interview recorded in April at the Classical Association conference in Reading Dr Lisa Maurice of Bar Ilan University talks with CC’s Anastasia Bakogianni about her twin passions: children’s literature and the portrayal of Jews in films about antiquity. In this vodcast she talks about the popularity of the classical…
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This item from the Evening Standard (wow!) was mentioned over at Classics International: Spears are being hurled in the classical world after a new book about Euripides was given a lukewarm write-up in the well-respected Classical Review. Cypriot author had spent eight years researching the play Rhesus, attributed to Euripides, for his new academic work…
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Over the past few weeks a number of Classicists have been mentioned in various news outlets for various reasons … I think I’ve mentioned most of them in my Explorator newsletter, but have been too swamped to mention them here efficiently, so here’s a compendium: Robert Kaster was named to the American Academy of Arts…
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