Today I was by chance reading William Brashear's publication of P.Berol. 17207, a "Prayer of Seth." In addition to being a typically (for him) brilliant display of papyrological skill, it is written in flawless, idiomatic German, hopelessly fluent by the standards of most foreigners struggling with the language ( Read more... )

This searing play by Euripides was performed in Jordan by Syrian refugees - it sounds amazing. "Rarely has the reception of Greek tragedy touched on issues so urgent, immediate and powerful."

http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/syria-trojan-women

nice one

http://chronicle.com/article/A-Classicist-Goes-to-Work-in/146511/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/28/scholars-discover-new-poems-from-ancient-greek-poetess-sappho.html

from a pal:

"...May seem a bit silly to you, but I got a bit of a whoah moment when I recently read Plethon's Book of Laws chapter iii (Woodhouse's trans./paraphrase pp. 336 ff.)
"'Clearly in the first place sexual intercourse was instituted to perpetuate the human race and give it a kind of immortality. Secondly, it enables man to create something ( Read more... )

1. For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave.
2 For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/arts/colin-mcginn-philosopher-to-leave-his-post.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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Definitely not impressed by Stang's work either.

http://jts.oxfordjournals.org/content/64/1/281.full.pdf+html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/linguists-identify-15000-year-old-ultraconserved-words/2013/05/06/a02e3a14-b427-11e2-9a98- ( Read more... )