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Roy Zimmerman: You're Getting Sleepy
I've been following Roy Zimmerman's output of musical satire since his 2004 album Faulty Intelligence, and I was certainly not disappointed by the recent You're Getting Sleepy. The CD's title is shared...
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Tampa and Almagia
Detail of Apulian loutrophoros. Gift of Mr & Mrs C.W. Sahlman. I am grateful to Todd Smith, Executive Director of the Tampa Museum of Art, for clarifying which item in the collection is linked to...
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Digital Library: Institut du Monde Arabe
Institut du Monde Arabe Bibliothèque Numérique Oeuvrant en faveur de l'établissement de ponts entre les cultures arabe et européenne, l'Institut du Monde Arabe poursuit énergiquement sa mission visant...
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NIAC Alert: Persepolis Tablets Threatened By Senate Sanctions Bill
National Iranian American Council (NIAC) has posted the following:Alert: Persepolis Tablets Threatened By Senate Sanctions BillA Senatecommittee voted yesterday to make it easier for individuals to...
View ArticleHorace, Ars Poetica 120-219
Titre: Horace, Ars Poetica 120-219Lieu: Université de Cambridge / CambridgeCatégorie: Séminaires, conférencesDate: 08.02.2012Heure: 17.15 h - 18.45 hDescription: Infomation signalée par Jacques Elfassi...
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Though I Speak With Tongues of Penguins and Polar Bears…
Allan Bevere chose my caption as the winner of his latest caption contest. Here’s the photo with my caption:“If I speak in the tongues of penguins and of polar bears, but have not love, I am only a...
View ArticleMy Huffington Post Piece on Renzo Piano’s Gardner Museum Expansion
An ebullient Anne Hawley, director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, speaking at the press preview for the expansionBy sheer good luck, my drive back home from my visit to Salem, MA (where I...
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The Parthenon Frieze Repository
The Parthenon FriezeThe Parthenon Frieze Repository repository is an organized infrastructure of digital content, that offers free access to cultural material. The repository was carried out by the...
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Greek Dissertations Online (beta)
Εθνικό Αρχείο Διδακτορικών Διατριβών (EAΔΔ) - The National Archive of PhD ThesesΤο Εθνικό Αρχείο Διδακτορικών Διατριβών (EAΔΔ) συγκεντρώνει τις διδακτορικές διατριβές που έχουν εκπονηθεί στα ελληνικά...
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WordChorus: Searching for Patterns in Ancient Greek Texts
WordChorus: Searching for Patterns in Ancient Greek Texts! WordChorus is a tool specifically designed to find patterns in Ancient Greek texts. Have you ever wondered how many verses in the Iliad begin...
View ArticleQuotation Of The Day
On Planned Parenthood and the Komen Foundation: A multi-year concerted effort to shut down a nonprofit for ideological reasons, one even pursued in the halls of Congress: not just fine, but applauded....
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On my way to Leiden…
I’m leaving tomorrow morning for a workshop at the Lorentz Center at the University of Leiden focusing linguistic databases for biblical texts and languages: Biblical Scholarship and Humanities...
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A Call to Russia
Amnesty International is asking for people to send a message to Russia not to block with it's veto a resolution going through the United Nations Security Council aimed to stop the Syrian government...
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Small Demons – Connecting all the details of books
Small Demons is a new beta site dedicated to opening up the worlds inside of books by connecting all their details (people, places, and things). Small Demons is a Los Angeles based company that...
View ArticleHow to feed a pregnant Neanderthal
Shorter can be better: Case in point, Bryan Hockett has a short (five pages) paper in press in Quaternary International entitled "The consequences of Middle Paleolithic diets on pregnant Neanderthal...
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Translating Metaphor: He just snapped for no reason!
I was reading 4 Maccabees in Greek this evening and was reminded of this audio clip from Brian Regan: It’s the fascinating metaphorical extensions of the word: οἶστρος. Here’s the entry from LSJ (with...
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Archaeological Digs
Update:Popular Archaeology, a new online magazine and companion website to Archaeological Digs, offers much more to readers than simply the latest dig information. Visit the site at...
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Wall Mile 33
Wall Mile 33 from Milecastle 34 The landscape now takes on a more gentle aspect for the walker. We are also soon going to encounter the Military Road again after a long interval and it will be a close...
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2012.02.05: Legal Speeches of Democratic Athens: Sources for Athenian History
Review of Michael Gagarin, Speeches from Athenian Law. The oratory of classical Greece 16. Austin: 2011. Pp. x, 396. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9780292726383.
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