Classicists
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From the Telegraph: Hector Catling, who has died aged 88, became director of the British School at Athens after playing a leading role in establishing a comprehensive archaeological field survey of the island of Cyprus. In 1951 Catling, then a young Oxford student struggling to develop his career as an archaeologist, went out to Cyprus,…
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From the Baltimore Sun: Georg H.B. Luck, whose career teaching the classics at the Johns Hopkins University spanned two decades and included studying the role magic and witchcraft played in the theology and world of the ancient Greeks and Romans, died Sunday from complications of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 87…
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In her latest post marking the New York Review of Books’ fiftieth anniversary, Mary Beard reminisces and inter alia mentions something which should be part of our collective mission statement (do universities still have those): “if we were to amputate the classics from the modern world, it would mean more than closing down some university…
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Sarah Ruden has a piece on Horace as ‘anti-celebrity’ in the National Review … worth a look: Horace’s Ship of State
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Douglas Frame talks about assorted Homerica and his book Hippota Nestor over at the Center for Hellenic Studies site: Homer’s Hidden Muse and Related Questions: a conversation with classicist Douglas Frame
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