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  • This is a bit of a strange one … my spiders started dragging back versions of this story the other day and it was interesting how different it was being spun depending on which journalist was covering it. The starting point is an article by Pádraig Mac Carron and Ralph Kenna entitled Universal properties of…

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  • Back to February now … not sure if I even mentioned on Twitter this OpEd in the LA Times by James Romm on Pericles’ ‘statue stripping’ strategy back in the day of a different sort of crisis: Greeks today might ask: What would Pericles do? (LA Times)

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  • I’ve been anxiously checking in on Youtube in the hopes of seeing a video of Boris’ performance of Armand D’Angour’s Olympian ode and while we still don’t have the full thing, Susannah Davis (on Twitter; naturally we direct a tip o’ the pileus to her) did point us to this glimpse from a Greek source:…

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  • Latin Memes

    Just came across this while doing a bit of community service/outreach in various Reddit fora: Latin Memes … not sure if it’s still active (and there’s one there which you probably can’t share with a class of high schoolers), but you might like some of them …

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  • This one’s making the rounds of assorted social media thingies … via Incidental Comics: via: INCIDENTAL COMICS

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