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Also Seen: Ben Hur bloopers
Must be a very slow news day for the Mirror, FWIW: Ben Hur bloopers: Can you spot the mistakes in the ancient Roman epic? – Mirror Online. I’m sure plenty of Classicists can come up with a list of...
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Progress Report
Recently, the four editors and architects of the Homer Multitext project together with several students presented a panel at the Classical Association of the Middle West and South's annual meeting in...
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Restoration projects in Pompeii
Being late for a few days, here is the list of the houses that should be restored from May on (or so):- Casa del Marinaio (VII 5, 15)- Casa dei Dioscuri (VI 9, 6)- Casa delle pareti rosse (VIII 5, 37)-...
View ArticleFORGING HISTORY: MOTIVES, METHODS, AND EXEMPLARS OF FORGED TEXTS [1]
Christopher A. Rollston, crollston@ecs.edu Toyozo Nakarai Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Studies, Emmanuel Christian Seminary I. MOTIVATIONS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF FORGERIES...
View ArticleFrustrated with Finereader
I’ve been working on placing Theodoret’s commentary on Romans on the web for a while. I OCR’d it in Abbyy Finereader 11, and I finished proofing the OCR in Finereader before Easter. Today I tried...
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Homer, Epic Bibliography
People in my family, as well as family friends and email correspondents, think I should know all about the relationship between Homeric epic, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other epic ...Read Full Post
View ArticleSome musings on comment spam
This blog has been running for two or three years now (I can’t remember when). In that time I have written 2,340 posts, which have attracted 6,866 comments, and … 215,300 spam comments!! That is, an...
View ArticleFrom my diary
I’m just pottering around the blog, looking at this and that. I’ve been checking some of the blogroll links. The Egyptian State Information Service have changed their URL, I see. Grey and rainy here,...
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Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology National Archaeology Day Friday, October 19, 2012 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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Kommos Archive
[First posted in AWOL 6 January 2009. Updated 9 April 2012]Kommos Community home page Since 1976 the University of Toronto, in collaboration with The American School of Classical Studies at Athens and...
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Conferences: HBU Philosophy Conference on Divine and Human Agency
Several days ago HBU’s growing philosophy department hosted a conference on divine and human agency. It was a really good event. There was an eclectic group of scholars in attendance and an eclectic...
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Two Title Changes
I have changed the titles of two recent posts to avoid confusion.The post originally titled Edward Gibbon and the Reasons for the Decline and Fall of Rome is now Edward Gibbon on the Decline and Fall...
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New Open Access Issue of PEUCE, S.N. IX -...
New Open Access Issue of PEUCE, S.N. IX - 2011 http://www.revistapeuce.icemtl.ro/2011.html
View ArticleGoshen Commotion: Endanged Rudolph Building Makes NY Times’ Front Page...
Orange County Government Center, 1971, designed by Paul RudolphYou might have missed it while you were engaged in feverish holiday preparations (perhaps, as I was, elbow-deep in matzo-farfel stuffing),...
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ON SHOPPING FOR ARTIFACTS IN THE HOLY LAND: A RESPONSE TO MORAG M. KERSEL
G.M. Grena The LMLK Research Website, founder/editor shop@lmlk.com Foreword In comments to Dr. Kersel’s article (Buyer Beware: Shopping for Artifacts in the Holy Land), I expressed disappointment over...
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Mali MOU Renewal Overtaken By Events?
With one exception, no MOU restricting imports of cultural goods has ever been allowed to expire.Yet, the assumption behind MOU's -- that the US should help State Parties to the UNESCO Convention...
View Article#CFP: Science-Fiction Myths: Travels through Time and Space – Due June 1, 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS“Science-Fiction Myths: Travels through Time and Space”An area of multiple panels for the Film & History Conference on “Film and Myth”September 26-30, 2012Milwaukee, Wisconsin,...
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upcoming book chats (2): 'antony and cleopatra' by adrian goldsworthy
A reminder that on April 18 and May 2 we will discuss Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy. A fun book to read! My review.N.S. Gills' review.
View ArticleΠαρουσίαση του Αρχείου Γεώργιου Παπαϊωάννου
May 16, 2012 - 12:01 AM - Παρουσίαση Γεώργιος Αντωνίου, Στάθης Καλύβας, Αλέξης Μάλλιαρης
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Review of Bart Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist? Part One
I’m grateful to have been given the opportunity to participate in the blog tour about Bart Ehrman’s latest book, Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth. Ehrman emphasizes that...
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