Popculch
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A couple of years ago, we first mentioned the existence of some Japanese Manga (a.k.a comic, although they’re closer to graphic novels than what we North Americans think of as comics) called Thermae Romae, the premise of which is that some ancient Roman gets magically transported from a Roman bath to a modern Japanese one.…
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Okay … it’s the last day of school and catchup blogging of a pile of stuff will happen very soon, but I just can’t sit on this one in the Sydney Morning Herald … check this out: Get the whole story (and more photos) at: I came, I saw, I constructed (Sydney Morning Herald)
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The National Hockey League in North America has an annual thing in January called the Winter Classic, wherein they go old school and actually play hockey outside. I think a town in Croatia just may trump that … from AFP via Yahoo: An ancient Roman amphitheatre in the northern Croatian port of Pula is preparing…
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There have been plenty of non-Classicist commentators dropping the word ‘tragedy’ and making all sorts of facile comparisons to the ancient world in regards to the ongoing debt crisis in Greece … finally, a Classicist — Oxford’s Armand D’Angour — wades in with some useful comparanda. From the BBC: What advice would the ancient Greeks…
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The final installment:
rogue classicism 