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Hellenistic/Roman Cemetery from Thessaloniki
Tip o’ the pileus to Diana Wright for sending in this brief item from Athens News: Part of an ancient cemetery dating from the Hellenistic and Roman eras was uncovered in Thessaloniki during...
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M.D. Usher Talks Arab Spring
Interesting talk coming up … via Seven Days: University of Vermont classics professor M.D. Usher has a way of getting caught up in regime-change protests. During a conference in Cairo last month, he...
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Dalhousie’s Pythian Games
From a Dalhousie University press release: If your Friday evening featured apocalyptic ramblings, verbose philosophers and an MC-ing Roman legionary, chances are you were at the Pythian Games. Not the...
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Goat Pen Kore?
Plenty of coverage of this one, but most seems to be variations on Nicholas Paphitis’ coverage for AP. Here’s the incipit of the Guardian‘s version: Greek police have recovered an ancient statue worth...
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Titre: Communautés multiples et territoire civiqueLieu: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme-Alpes / GrenobleCatégorie: Séminaires, conférencesDate: 05.04.2012Heure: 10.00 h - 15.30 hDescription: Information...
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Friday Varia and Quick Hits
It’s fixin’ to be a cool and clearish day here in North Dakotaland, but the grey morning sky suggests otherwise. We’ll see, in other words, but my meteorological skepticism isn’t enough to discourage a...
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Suspect Sarcophagus via Switzerland
Brief item from the Art Media Agency: Turkey is claiming ownership of a sarcophagus discovered at the end of 2010 in Geneva free port during an inventory check conducted by Swiss customs officials. The...
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Past Preservers: “Allan Maca to join Time Team America”
CAIRO--30th March 2012--Past Preservers is proud to announce that our recent signing, Dr. Allan Maca, will be joining the crew of onscreen archaeologists in the new season of Time Team America, set to...
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Murder in the Agora: AIA Talk by Maria Liston
“For all the beauty and wonder of archaeology and the ancient world, there are dark undercurrents and real people who died”. Today , Dr. Maria Liston was visiting Michigan State University as part of...
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The Curse of Ka Nefer Nefer and "Collectors' Rights"
.For the details of the latest instalment in the Ka-Nefer-Nefer scandal I refer readers to Rick St Hilaire's blog ('Ka Nefer Nefer Case Resumes After Lengthy Hiatus'). It beats me how the staff and...
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Lectureship/ Senior lectureship at the Open University
The Department of Classical Studies at the Open University is pleased to announce a 5-year fixed term position in the History, Culture and/or Archaeology of Rome and its Empire made possible through...
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Laptop Has Replaced Umpteen Specialised Devices
Junior's been through an extended period of various lighter ailments that have affected his school attendance record (but not his grades) considerably. I believe this may be partly due to his sedentary...
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Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
The Doctor Who episode Enemy of the World from the Patrick Troughton era is something of a first, an episode that is more like a James Bond movie than any of the typical scenarios in which the Doctor...
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Bryn Mawr Reviews
2012.03.56: Ernst Heitsch, Platon, Größerer Hippias. Platon Werke. Übersetzung und Kommentar, VII 1. 2012.03.55: Dominique Lenfant, Les Perses vus par les Grecs. Lire les sources classiques sur...
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Gladiators Get the Boot
Kind of surprised this isn’t getting more attention … it’ll probably show up in weekend papers or something … from UPI: Rome city officials said the costumed gladiators and centurions will no longer be...
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Also Seen: Prosopographic Note on Josephus Flavius
Interesting item up at Bible and Interpretation: Claude Cohen-Matlofsky, Prosopographic Note on Josephus Flavius … some very useful background info …
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CJ Online Review: Lallot, et al., The Historical Present in Thucydides
posted with permission: Jean Lallot, Albert Rijksbaron, Bernard Jacquinod, and Michel Buijs, eds., The Historical Present in Thucydides: Semantics and Narrative Function. Le présent historique chez...
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CJ Online Review: Leonard, Derrida and Antiquity
posted with permission: Miriam Leonard, ed., Derrida and Antiquity. Classical Presences Series. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. x + 406. £79.00/$130.00. ISBN 978-0-19-954554-4....
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Open Access Journal: Dil ve Edebiyat Eğitimi Dergisi - Journal of Language...
Dil ve Edebiyat Eğitimi Dergisi - Journal of Language and Literature Education (JLLE)ISSN: 2146-6971 JLLE is a scholarly international journal focusing on theory, research, and developments in language...
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Visit from Prof. Daniel Falk
Prof .Daniel Falk (University of Oregon) will visit us next week and present a paper on ‘Material Aspects of Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls’. Tuesday April 3, at 3-4.30 pm in the Martin Hall. All...
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