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Over at Brain Pickings — one of our fave distractions — Maria Popova alerted us to this massive graphic novelesque effort called Action Philosophers … it includes some excerpts which happen to be within our purview (scroll down past the Cartesian and Peanuts gang): Action Philosophers: Two Millennia of Philosophy in Comic Form (Brain Pickings)
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Philip Freeman talks to St Louis Public Radio about his book How to Win an Election: Ancient Campaign Advice For Modern Politicians
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Tip o’ the pileus to June Samaras on the Classics list for alerting us to this accolade … here’s the incipit of how the Atlantic spun the tale: Ted McCagg is a creative director in advertising in Portland, Oregon. In his spare time, for the past five years or so, McCagg has been keeping a…
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From the Local comes a somewhat bizarre sorta Classical sorta not item: A mayor from southern Sweden has been slammed for paying an artist friend 600,000 kronor ($91,584) in public funds to paint a depiction of the mayor dressed as a Roman legionary as part of a mural in the local council’s building. “I have…
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OK … so we erstwhile colonists are sitting here enjoying our lattes and watching the strangest bit of class(ical) name-calling going on in the motherland. It seems that one Andrew Mitchell MP took umbrage at a policeman and referred to him as a ‘pleb’! Here’s a timeline of how what is being branded a ‘scandal’…
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