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A collaborative translation of Plato’s Protagoras
Plato's Protagoras, a translationThis is an attempt at a collaborative translation of Plato’s Protagoras, a beautiful and challenging dialogue. The lead author is Dhananjay Jagannathan, a graduate...
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I'm setting up a "Culture Concierge" weekly newsletter with some friends. Mostly we'll be covering cultural events in London, but there will be city guides for cities such as Istanbul packed with great...
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Reviews from BMCR
2012.02.04: Achim Lichtenberger, Severus Pius Augustus: Studien zur sakralen Repräsentation und Rezeption der Herrschaft des Septimius Severus und seiner Familie (193-211 n. chr.). Impact of empire,...
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CONF: Metaphor in Greek and Roman Literature and Culture
Seen on the Classicists list: Metaphor in Greek and Roman Literature and Culture (a one-day workshop) Friday 4 May, 2012 School of Classics, University of St Andrews * Anna Uhlig (Cambridge): Sea as...
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CONF: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome
Seen on the Classicists list: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome International Conference, Leiden University, 31 May and 1 June 2012 The Greek rhetorician and historian Dionysius of...
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Base de données sur les auteurs ancien: édition patristique
Base de données sur les auteurs ancien: édition patristique, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Base de données éditée par l’Institut des Sources Chrétiennes (HISOMA - UMR 5189).Cette base...
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Friday Varia and Quick Hits
We awoke to a foggy morning and our drive to campus saw cloud-burst style snow showers. But the good news is that we’ll see balmy temperatures again today with highs in the 30s!!! So with the arrival...
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New book: Rice and Language Across Asia: Crops, Movement, and Social Change
This special double-issue on the deep history of rice in Asia has just appeared in print, with a number of contributions deriving from the multi-disciplinary international symposium “Rice and Language...
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Doctor Who: The Highlanders
This second episode of the Patrick Troughton era, “The Highlanders” witnessed the arrival of a companion who would be with the Second Doctor throughout the rest of his stint: Jamie McCrimmon. This...
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Open Access Journal: Totem
TOTEM: The University of Western Ontario Anthropology JournalISSN (Print): 1203-8830ISSN (Online): 1925-8542TOTEM is a peer-reviewed, student-run journal of anthropology published annually in...
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Newly in Open Access: Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society (Deltion)
ΔΕΛΤΙΟN ΤΗΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΙΚΗΣ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΗΣ ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑΣ - Deltion of the Christian Archaeological SocietyISSN: 1105-5758 Χριστιανική Αρχαιολογική Εταιρεία (ΧΑΕ) με ιδιαίτερη χαρά ανακοινώνει την έναρξη...
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L’Âge du bronze dans l’espace Manche-Mer du Nord
Une conférence d’Anne Lehoërff à la MESHS (Lille). La Maison européenne des sciences de l’homme et de la société de Lille propose une conférence d’Anne Lehoërff, Maître de conférences en protohistoire...
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London Arts Picks
London Arts Picks:Culture ConciergeWhat we love in London03.03.2012London is one of the cultural capitals of the world, so there is always a great deal to see and do. We're here to help you navigate...
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Unplanned reuse
There’s really only one thing you can do with a book: read it. You can learn from it, cite it or feel that your life has been changed by it, but you can’t directly reuse it (well, apart from making it...
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GEPHYRA 8, 2011. Il cosiddetto «Ciprominoico 2»: Una decifrazione possibile? – Matilde Serangeli At the current state of the studies concerning the decipherment of the so–called «Cypro–Minoan»… Eumenes...
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Because of the bereavement, I’m still having difficulty concentrating on anything, and this has very odd effects if you are sat at home, as I am. I can’t do anything work related, or indeed anything...
View ArticleOAPEN-UK focus groups, first report
The JISC-funded OAPEN-UK (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) project have published a report on the first round of focus groups, held in the British Library late last year. Various groups of...
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Rabbi admits Torah tales were a fraud
NYT: Rabbi admits Torah tales were a fraud - US news - The New York Times - msnbc.com:For years Rabbi Menachem Youlus, a self-described “Jewish Indiana Jones,” received plaudits from those captivated...
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Y-chromosome admixture in self-identified Australian Aboriginals
Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2012 Jan 30. [Epub ahead of print] An investigation of admixture in an Australian Aboriginal Y-chromosome STR database. Taylor D, Nagle N, Ballantyne KN, van Oorschot RA, Wilcox...
View ArticleThe New Brill Typeface
Targuman Christian Brady tells us of a new Unicode typeface from Brill. It is really quite lovely and has great support for diacritical marks and Greek. Two things stopped me from adopting it as...
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