Video

  • I seem to have missed this UPenn video last week: Was there a Trojan War? Assessing the Evidence from Recent Excavations at Troy In the course of the latest campaign of excavations at Troy, in northwestern Turkey, archaeologists have uncovered a wealth of evidence that enables us to situate the site within the political and…

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  • And we might as well include official descriptions of these UPenn videos too: When one visualizes the Roman Republic, the first image that usually comes to mind is that of a male aristocrat whose portrait bears the signs of advanced age: incised lines on or around the forehead, eyes, and mouth, and short, closely cropped…

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  • I think I’ll include the original description with these Classics Confidential posts … This week’s interview features Professor Daniela Manetti from the University of Florence, who at the time of filming was visiting the Humboldt University in Berlin as part of the research programme ‘Medicine of the Mind, Philosophy of the Body: Discourses of Health…

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  • This seems to be promotional material for the National Theatre’s production of Antigone:

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  • From the Penn Museum comes a sort of introductory video thing (it seems to be more of a slide show): … kind of ‘meh’ actually, but some might find it useful

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