Classicists
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My spiders brought back this very interesting blog post from Never Yet Melted, which is an account of being an undergrad in ‘Dr Meleagar’s’ (a.k.a William George Headlam’s) presence: Portrait of a Classicist
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From an Open University press release: Professor Helen King has been awarded a prize by the Women’s Classical Caucus for the best article published in the last three years relating to their mission of ‘fostering the study of gender, sexuality, feminist theory, or women’s history’. The winning article by Professor King, Professor of Classical Studies…
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from Ynet: Distinguished historian Professor Zvi Yavetz, who was the 1990 Israel Prize for Humanities laureate, died Tuesday. He was 88-years-old. Yavetz, who co-founded the Tel Aviv University, was a world renowned historian, and received honorary doctorates from various universities worldwide. Born in 1925 in Chernovitz, now in southwestern Ukraine, he lost most of his…
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Nice little video on the BBC: Prof Mary Beard’s ‘Roman view’ of new year … and Dr Beard, OBE reflects on the production: An alternative “Thought for the Day”.
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An excerpt from the concluding half of a piece in the Valley News: [ …] In the archaeological universe, there are people who prefer to sit at a remove from a site, analyzing material in a lab: these are, said Rutter, the “cleans.” Then there are the other people, who like nothing better than getting…
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