Comment on Discussing the New Sappho poems by Francesca Tronchin
Dr. Oddink speaks out in the TLS: http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1371516.ece
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Pardon the typo/misspelling: Obbink
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New Sappho Followup ~ Some Questions Answered in TLS
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s post (A New Sapphic Poem ~ Wading into the Morass), we now see that Dr Obbink has a very nice piece in TLS which deals with the two new poems and answers some questions...
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Rare religion sighting: we put up two charming Iraqi ladies for the night because of a friend’s birthday party, and they turned out to be Mandaeans, Gnostic believers in John the Baptist as Messiah.One...
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Dr. Obbink apparently has accepted ἀέρρῃ in the TLS article.
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Nos, az elmúlt hetekben ismét számos izgalmas leletre bukkantak / izgalmas leletet jelentettek be a szélesebb közönség előtt. A legérdekesebb, még két héttel ezelőttről, egy bizonyos Senebkai király...
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Les Importations romaines et les Sarmates du nord de la mer Noire
Simonenko, A. V. (2011) : Римский импорт у сарматов Северного Причерноморья / Rimskij import u sarmatov Severnogo Prichernomor’ja, Sain-Pétersbourg, [Les Importations romaines et les Sarmates du nord...
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Sapphogate - Day III
From crowd sourced grammar fixes to glowing media reports, we have been co-opted into a story profiting a person or persons unknown. #Sappho — Douglas Boin (@austin_hoya) February 5, 2014 Three days in...
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Three New Things about Teaching History in a Scale-Up Classroom
This week began my Spring 2014 Scale-Up adventures in earnest. I introduced the class to the first of three units new for my modified Western Civilization I class. Whereas last time I taught this...
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New Sappho Followup II ~ Implications for the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife
This is pretty much a duplicate of my previous post (New Sappho Followup ~ Some Questions Answered in TLS, but since it really is a separate issue (despite being mentioned in my initial post on the...
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The original draft is also still on the web:http://web.archive.org/web/20140130212614/http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/Fragments/Obbink.Sappho7.draft.pdf
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Shared Authority & the Return of the Human Curated Web
A few years ago, I wrote a piece on Why Academic Blogging Matters: A structural argument. This was the text for a presentation as part of the SAA in Sacremento that year. In the years since, the web...
View ArticleComment on Discussing the New Sappho poems by Justin Walsh (@jstpwalsh)
The point is not that the material of this particular papyrus is so important — it’s everything else that gets destroyed in the looting process (which can never be retrieved or fully...
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#HamOnNye Post-Debate Round-Up
Lots of bloggers and news outlets are reflecting on the debate last night, which most agree that Bill Nye won. Below is a collection of what I have come across. But first, here is the debate for those...
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Let CPO say it respects archaeology and all it has contributed to the understanding of the human past. On the other hand, CPO also questions whether archaeology is really a "hard science," as has been...
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Ethiopic Jubilees Reading Guide: 11:1-10/The Rise of Civilization
Reading GuideI've been working on a project involving Ethiopic Jubilees and thought I'd make a little of the data available for those who are learning Ge'ez. I've put together a little reading guide...
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What Ken Ham Didn’t Say #hamonnye
Lots of people are discussing what Ken Ham said in the debate. But I want to highlight what Ken Ham didn’t say.He didn’t say some of the things that you most regularly hear from young-earth...
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Red-figured hydria with a scene at Agamemnon’s...
Red-figured hydria with a scene at Agamemnon’s tombc.350-320 BCCampanian Orestes and Pylades find Electra mourning, and together they plan to kill their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. The...
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Linear B, Knossos & Mycenae | The Extreme Significance of the Archaic Greek...
Linear B, Knossos & MycenaeThe Extreme Significance of the Archaic Greek of the Catalogue of Ships in Book II of Iliad in the Reconstruction of Mycenaean Greekhttp://ift.tt/N2NQ7F
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