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by sean_m
Fri Dec 18, 2015 7:23 pm
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: Sabine Müller wird zu Professorin
Replies: 0
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Sabine Müller wird zu Professorin

Since the fall she has had a permanent position at Philips-Universität Marburg in central Germany. Her previous position was in Innsbruck but I did not want to pass on the good news until I could find her new faculty page. Some of her work on Alexander and his contemporaries and on the legendary Ale...
by sean_m
Fri Nov 06, 2015 3:02 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: DIS MANIBUS John Kinloch Anderson (+ 12 Oct 2015)
Replies: 3
Views: 4135

Re: DIS MANIBUS John Kinloch Anderson (+ 12 Oct 2015)

That kind of information on older academics can be hard to find, especially if the university took things down from their website when they retired! What is cruellest is that its so hard to move on from people and communities which have gone in a direction which one can't follow but are still active...
by sean_m
Thu Nov 05, 2015 6:22 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: DIS MANIBUS John Kinloch Anderson (+ 12 Oct 2015)
Replies: 3
Views: 4135

DIS MANIBUS John Kinloch Anderson (+ 12 Oct 2015)

http://www.classics.berkeley.edu/about/news/memoriam-j-k-anderson-jan-3-1924-oct-13-2015 Professor John Kinloch (“Jock”) Anderson passed away peacefully on Tuesday, October 13 at the age of 91. Jock Anderson was Professor of Classical Archaeology at UC Berkeley where he was a beloved mentor to many ...
by sean_m
Tue Nov 03, 2015 6:11 pm
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: Mycenean warrior
Replies: 2
Views: 1994

Re: Mycenean warrior

Thanks system1988! I had not seen that article or photo. There are a few others on this find on my blog.

Some of the English-language articles mention impressions of textiles and what sound like the remains of a Dendra Panoply.
by sean_m
Wed Oct 21, 2015 9:43 am
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Conference: Greek and Roman Military Manuals, Winnipeg, Canada October 2016
Replies: 2
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Re: Conference: Greek and Roman Military Manuals, Winnipeg, Canada October 2016

Also, a volume of proceedings from an earlier conference edited by Nicholas Sekunda and Philip Rance, The Ancient Greek Tactica and its Heritage, is supposed to be published eventually. Some of the abstracts are floating around on academia.edu with different expected dates of publication attached.
by sean_m
Wed Oct 21, 2015 7:36 am
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Conference: Greek and Roman Military Manuals, Winnipeg, Canada October 2016
Replies: 2
Views: 3721

Conference: Greek and Roman Military Manuals, Winnipeg, Canada October 2016

GREEK AND ROMAN MILITARY MANUALS: GENRE, THEORY, INFLUENCE WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA 21 & 22 OCTOBER 2016 While scholars acknowledge the ubiquity of military manuals in antiquity, systematic study of this genre has yet to be undertaken To be sure, military manuals are enigmatic and at the same...
by sean_m
Thu Oct 08, 2015 7:21 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
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Views: 542245

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

There is a sound recording of the 2 hour event available, I am trying to translate it for everyone here, but will take some time. In general, the references of K. Peristeri to the literature are inaccurate, as pointed above by Agesilaos, and many times some of their (Peristeri and Lefantzis) interp...
by sean_m
Mon Sep 21, 2015 9:46 pm
Forum: The Diadochi
Topic: Eurydice Papyrus
Replies: 1
Views: 10072

Eurydice Papyrus

Sofía Torallas Tovar, Klaas A. Worp, Greek Papyri from Montserrat (P.Monts.Roca IV). Scripta orientalia, 1. Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 2014. Pp. 327; 55 p. of plates. ISBN 9788498837001. (pb). Reviewed by W. Andrew Smith, Shepherds Theological Seminary (asmith@shepherds.edu)...
by sean_m
Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:13 am
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: Greeks vote "Oxi" (No)
Replies: 1
Views: 1756

Re: Greeks vote "Oxi" (No)

Thanks Dr. Reames. Greek citizens have some tough decisions to make right now. Oddly enough I do not hear much about managing the Euro on the street in Innsbruck.
by sean_m
Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:54 am
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Oriental literary sources
Replies: 31
Views: 15737

Re: Oriental literary sources

You are welcome. I hope to do more posts which summarize things in German which would be of interest to a wider audience, like a new book on kingship in Urartu or Volquadsen on Diodorus and Ephorus. But for the next few weeks I feel like something lighter. I wonder if the missing feminine singular s...
by sean_m
Mon Jun 29, 2015 8:41 am
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Oriental literary sources
Replies: 31
Views: 15737

Re: Oriental literary sources

Sean, I totally accept that all the evidence has to be assessed and would not deny the importance of the Babylonian texts, but they have a context outside the Graeco-Roman literary tradition familiar to bog-standard classicists of my ilk which makes them more difficult to approach, which is why we ...
by sean_m
Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:18 am
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Oriental literary sources
Replies: 31
Views: 15737

Re: Oriental literary sources

I have a hard time seeing the Astronomical Diary as “over played” when there are plenty of books and chapters on the battle of Gaugamela by professional historians which don't acknowledge that it exists at all! (Examples: Sabin's Lost Battles , Heckel and Yardley's Alexander the Great: Historical S...
by sean_m
Sun Jun 28, 2015 10:58 am
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Oriental literary sources
Replies: 31
Views: 15737

Re: Oriental literary sources

I would just be happy if it became accepted that the Astronomical Diary , Arrian, and Rufus are the three sources which one must discuss at length in any serious analysis of Alexander's Babylonian campaign. The first part of my introduction to the diaries as texts for people who can't read Babylonia...
by sean_m
Sun Jun 21, 2015 11:25 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Oriental literary sources
Replies: 31
Views: 15737

Re: Oriental literary sources

I have a hard time seeing the Astronomical Diary as “over played” when there are plenty of books and chapters on the battle of Gaugamela by professional historians which don't acknowledge that it exists at all! (Examples: Sabin's Lost Battles , Heckel and Yardley's Alexander the Great: Historical So...
by sean_m
Sun Jun 21, 2015 6:33 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Oriental literary sources
Replies: 31
Views: 15737

Re: Oriental literary sources

agesilaus, I think that the narrative of Gaugamela in the Astronomical Diary is a connected historical narrative, although a concise one. One of the gaps contains several sentences of description of the fighting, which is unusually wordy for the diaries. Perhaps most important, the Diary is polished...