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John M. McMahon | 1 Jul 2007 01:26
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Re: fire on Mt. Parnes -- anti mnemosenou ...

On 6/30/07 6:41 PM, "Isidoros" <ioniccentre <at> HOL.GR> wrote:

>> Good sites.  I think the list would like to have them too
> 
> wrote back the friend I spoke of earlier, after sending him a few
> URLs about Parnitha from 'H Kathimerini' written two years ago.
> 
> Well, here they are ...

Wow!  Εὐχαριστῶ.

JMM / LMC
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John M. McMahon | 1 Jul 2007 03:14
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Piero della Francesca (w/some cc)

IHT 6/29/07:

"Painting, mathematics, and the work of Piero della Francesca"

"Not long after his death in October 1492, Piero della Francesca was already
better remembered as a mathematician than as a painter. Less than two
decades had passed before Pope Julius II was ordering the demolition of his
frescoes at the Vatican (along with those of other great painters of the
previous century) to make way for Raphael's. The list of lost frescoes by
Piero elsewhere, from Perugia, Florence and Ferrara, to Ancona, Loreto and
Pesaro, makes for melancholy reading.

The only complete cycle to survive was the 'Legend of the True Cross,' here
in the San Francesco Church in this little-visited town on the road between
Florence and Rome. The narrative constitutes a kind of history of the world
from the Garden of Eden, through the birth of Christ and the crucifixion, to
the victory of Constantine over the pagans and the rediscovery of the True
Cross, symbol of mankind's redemption.

Minutely analyzed over several years to avoid the kind of damage done to
other such works by overzealous cleaning, the painstakingly restored 'True
Cross' was unveiled in 2000, attracting less attention during the
event-filled year of the millennium than might otherwise have been the case.

Careful cleaning also brought to light, in the 'Dream of Constantine' scene,
the first known starry night sky in Western painting with scientifically
accurate renderings of constellations."

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Rosivach, Vincent | 1 Jul 2007 07:08
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wrapped in a star-spangled toga

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/weekinreview/01goodheart.html?ref=weekinreview

 
vince
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Hunsucker, R.L. | 1 Jul 2007 15:16
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Re: General Interest: New World Heritage sites

Vaguely ?  I can't discover any CC at all. Venetian and 
post-Venetian, OK.

The ancient city, please correct me if I'm wrong, lay some 
three km away to the south.

To be honest, I'd say there's more CC to Bordeaux or even 
the Sydney Opera House.

Certainly more classical is Gamzigrad-Romuliana, 
announced Friday as one of the last three sites to be 
added to the list for this year. An excerpt from the 
UNESCO's statement :  

"The Late Roman fortified palace compound and memorial 
complex of Gamzigrad-Romuliana, Palace of Galerius, in 
the east of Serbia, was commissioned by Emperor Caius 
Valerius Galerius Maximianus, in the late 3rd and early 4th 
century. [ . . . ] The site offers a unique testimony of the 
Roman building tradition marked by the ideology of the 
period of the Second Tetrachy."

- Laval Hunsucker

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John M. McMahon | 1 Jul 2007 15:29
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Re: General Interest: New World Heritage sites

On 7/1/07 9:16 AM, "Hunsucker, R.L." <R.L.Hunsucker <at> UVA.NL> wrote:

> Vaguely ?  I can't discover any CC at all. Venetian and
> post-Venetian, OK.

> The ancient city, please correct me if I'm wrong,
> lay some three km away to the south.

Picky, picky, picky. Corfu is near mainland Greece, no?  ;-)

JMM / LMC
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Robert T. White | 1 Jul 2007 16:09
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Famous People Who Became Classicists #2

 From the latest (not on-line part of) Sports Illustrated ("Where Are 
They Now?"):
"It's fair to say that in his six seasons as an NFL quarterback. 
David Klingler never had to call out signal in Ugaritic. Now, though, 
he's proficient in the long-extinct language of ancient Syria, as 
well as in Greek, Latin, French, German and Hebrew. Oh, Aramaic and 
Syriac, too. 'It's a lot like learning a new offense,' Klingler says 
of picking up a language. 'In the NFL, I played six years with six 
offensive coordinators. Languages are like offenses- they're 
different ways of saying the same things.'
"Klingler is studying to become an Old Testament scholar..."

He's also profiled here:
<http://www.dts.edu/about/profiles/David_Klingler>

Bob White

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Hunsucker, R.L. | 1 Jul 2007 16:13
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Re: NEW: Journal of Late Antiquity

> A new journal in 2007 and no home page?

Geewhiz, give 'em a break already --it doesn't even exist yet :-).

And to *prove* it :  It doesn't yet even have an ISSN assigned.

But it *is* included (along with such intriguing titles as _Contagion: 
Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture_, _Feminist Teacher_, 
_Journal of Sports Media) in the "Project MUSE Updates for 2008" 
list (<http://muse.jhu.edu/about/subscriptions/new_titles_2008.html>) 
-- which means you may shortly be getting free (to you, not to your 
library) access to it (them?) online whether you want it or not.

- Laval Hunsucker

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Terrence Lockyer wrote:
> This message posted to the Late Antiquity forum by
> Ralph Mathisen ( ruricius <at> MSN.COM ) seemed of possible
> interest here too:
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> NEW JOURNAL
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Hunsucker, R.L. | 1 Jul 2007 16:52
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Re: Famous People Who Became Classicists #2

> 'It's a lot like learning a new offense,' Klingler says of picking 
> up a language.

Maybe somebody should put this guy in touch with Prof. Horwitz 
(see "John M. McMahon" at 
http://lsv.uky.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0706e&L=classics-l&T=0&F=&S=&P=280). 

My Texas geography isn't that great, but isn't Dallas within easy 
reach of Austin ?  Sounds like a golden opportunity for some real 
progress in the scholarship of language acquisition.

- Laval Hunsucker
   ( who until this afternoon had never heard of anybody by the 
   name of David Klingler [ Does that perhaps mean I'm badly out 
   of touch with what really matters in the world of today ?? ] )

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 From the latest (not on-line part of) Sports Illustrated ("Where Are
They Now?"):
"It's fair to say that in his six seasons as an NFL quarterback.
David Klingler never had to call out signal in Ugaritic. Now, though,
he's proficient in the long-extinct language of ancient Syria, as
well as in Greek, Latin, French, German and Hebrew. Oh, Aramaic and
Syriac, too. 'It's a lot like learning a new offense,' Klingler says
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Hunsucker, R.L. | 1 Jul 2007 17:02
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Re: General Interest: New World Heritage sites

Yeah, John -- you're right of course. Much too picky of me, I'm 
really ashamed. 

Not only is it near Albania, uh, sorry, mainland Greece -- 
it's even *between* the latter and mainland Italy !!! 

And I've even known a couple of classicists who went on 
vacation to Corfu to lounge around on those great beaches.

My apologies !

- Laval Hunsucker

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Subject: Re: General Interest: New World Heritage sites

On 7/1/07 9:16 AM, "Hunsucker, R.L." <R.L.Hunsucker <at> UVA.NL> wrote:

> Vaguely ?  I can't discover any CC at all. Venetian and
> post-Venetian, OK.

> The ancient city, please correct me if I'm wrong,
> lay some three km away to the south.

Picky, picky, picky. Corfu is near mainland Greece, no?  ;-)
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Hunsucker, R.L. | 1 Jul 2007 17:13
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Re: fire on Mt. Parnes -- anti mnemosenou ...

Indeed, this is all very disturbing and depressing news. 
Also of course, indeed no less so, when it happens in 
Portugal (as not so long ago, I believe), southern France 
(where it had a few years back some effect for relatives 
of my wife) and so on.

But to give this sad news some CC -- To what extent did 
this kind of thing ever occur in the same parts of Greece 
in antiquity, and what is the evidence we have ??  (Too 
lazy right now to look into it myself, I admit ; maybe 
some of you have the info at hand.)

- Laval Hunsucker

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Subject: Re: fire on Mt. Parnes -- anti mnemosenou ...

On 6/30/07 6:41 PM, "Isidoros" <ioniccentre <at> HOL.GR> wrote:

>> Good sites.  I think the list would like to have them too
>
> wrote back the friend I spoke of earlier, after sending him a few
> URLs about Parnitha from 'H Kathimerini' written two years ago.
>
> Well, here they are ...
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