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Who's afraid of Marcel Proust? - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture...

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"In autumn 1912, a writer best known for pastiches and society columns took a manuscript to the Nouvelle Revue Française, recently founded by Gaston Gallimard. It was passed to a reader who opened it randomly at page 62 and found what he decided was a boring and overwritten description of a cup of herbal tea. The manuscript was politely declined." - maitani - -

"The novelist was Marcel Proust, the novel was Swann’s Way, the first volume of A la recherche du temps perdu, and the reader was André Gide. Proust took the book to Grasset, a few streets away in the septième arrondissement, who published it at the author’s expense 100 years ago this week. The following year Proust received one of the best-known apologies in literary history: “Turning down your book,” wrote Gide, “remains one of the greatest regrets of my life.” After some knotty negotiations with Bernard Grasset, Gallimard managed to win Proust back, buying up the last 200 unsold copies of Swann’s Way. Proust won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, and from then the novel became what we now think it to be: a book so famous that we don’t need to have read it to talk about it." - maitani - -

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Greeks and Romans: literary influence across languages and ethnicities | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2013...

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"Here’s an Italian writer adapting a French half-sentence on literary lovers: “La gente volgare non immagina quali profondi e nuovi godimenti l’aureola della gloria, anche pallida o falsa, porti all’amore” (“common people do not imagine what deep new pleasures the halo of glory, even pale or false, brings to love”; D’Annunzio, 1889); “On n’imagine pas, d’ordinaire, ce que le nimbe de gloire le plus pâle même, ajoute à l’amour” (“people do not usually imagine what even the palest halo of glory adds to love”; Péladan, 1887). Key words recognizably match: immagina/imagine, gloria/gloire, pallida/pâle, amore/amour; but Greek and Latin vocabularies look fundamentally separate: a chasm, little bridged by borrowings. D’Annunzio is plundering a book just out; but Latin writers mostly feign to draw on a literature that had long faded out." - maitani - -

"How could you have one novel, poem, children’s book, that wasn’t influenced by others? But people haven’t much considered what distinguishes literary interaction that jumps across languages and countries. An interesting case is the impact of Greek literature on Latin literature. (We’ll concentrate on that way round, and on the time after the earliest Latin writers—we want systems, not origins.)" - maitani - -

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Project Overview | Samothrace - Framing the mysteries in the sanctuary of the great gods - http://www.samothrace.emory.edu/project...

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"In antiquity, the fame of Samothrace, a tiny windswept island in the northern Aegean, emanated from its mystery cult of the Megaloi Theoi, the Great Gods, whose rites of initiation promised protection at sea and the opportunity to “become a better and more pious person in all ways” (Diodorus). The Sanctuary itself has the unmistakable aura of sacred ground. Set facing the sea in a cleft at the base of Mt. Phengari, the Sanctuary of the Great Gods physically integrates the divine forces of earth, sky, and sea that played a fundamental role in the mysteria. Within its sacred landscape events occurred that shaped both the mythic and historical ancient world. The island’s legendary family sired the Trojan race, gave form to the personification of Harmonia, and taught humans the sacred rites of the mysteria. Here, legend has it that the parents of Alexander the Great first met; here, the last Macedonian king held out against the Romans. The nature of the rites of initiation was held in silent trust by the community of initiated. However, their power to transform is well attested by ancient authors, by the lists of initiates who came to the sanctuary, by the innovative architecture that sheltered the rituals, by the splendid dedications offered to the Gods, and by the humble but crucial detritus of cult—pottery and animal bones—that built up over centuries of use spanning from the 7th century BC to the 4th century AD. The sanctuary thus provides a key point of access into the spiritual, political, and cultural psyche of the classical world. The transformative power of the Mysteries is most palpably signaled today by the deployment of the innovative buildings that once framed the rites within the sacred landscape—a dozen extraordinary monuments, each distinct within the history of Greek architecture, each deftly positioned within the terrain to heighten the experience of the initiate, each archaeologically well-preserved although no longer standing. In concert with the landscape, they justifiably make Samothrace one of the most important expressions of Hellenistic sacred space in the ancient Mediterranean." - maitani - -

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Images of the Day: Three Views of the Himalayas - ImaGeo | DiscoverMagazine.com - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo...

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"The snow-covered Himalayas, running in a long diagonal across the false-color satellite image above, mark a dramatic boundary between the warm, moist climate of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the cold, high, and dry Tibetan Plateau. Captured by the Suomi NPP satellite on Nov. 15, it shows the landscape in the near-infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Green is indicative of vegetation in the color-enhanced image, captured by the VIIRS instrument aboard Suomi NPP. And the gray colors, which dominate Tibet, indicate cold, non-vegetated landscapes. Lakes dot the Tibetan Plateau, some of them showing up in rusty tones characteristic of plankton blooms. (For a true-color rendition, click here.)" - maitani - -

"Update 11/17/13: When I found the image above yesterday, I was struck by the sharp contrast between India and the Tibetan Plateau — demarcated by the rugged, snow-covered Himalayas. For my original post I also included a similar view, photographed from the International Space Station. Today I realized that this large-scale geographic dividing line, perhaps one of the most stark on the planet, would look really dramatic in an image captured from orbit at night highlighting the differences in population patterns. Be sure to read to the end of the post to see what I came up with. |" - maitani - -

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A superb book on mountaineering « Why Evolution Is True - http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013...

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"But I digress, for I want to recommend a book on Himalayan mountaineering that I’m reading now. It is in fact one of the best of that genre I’ve ever read (along with Galen Rowell’s In The Throne Room of the Mountain Gods, containing Rowell’s incomparable pictures, and Annapurna, by Maurice Herzog. The former is about an unsuccessful attempt on K2, the world’s second highest peak, and the latter about the first successful ascent of Annapurna. The book I’m reading is actually five years old, but I’m not sure if it’s well known, for it’s published by—of all places—Yale University Press. The title is Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayas Mountaineering From the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, and the authors are Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver. Isserman is a professor of American history at Hamilton College and an expert on communism and the American left, while Weaver is a professor of history at the University of Rochester. Both men are mountain-lovers and climbers as well." - maitani - -

"You either love books on mountaineering or, like most people, couldn’t care less about them. I’m in the former class: I’ve always been fascinated by mountains and have made three treks to the Himalaya just to see Annapurna and Mount Everest. (The panorama of Everest and its surrounding peaks from the top of the adjacent molehill of Kala Pattar is, I maintain, the world’s most beautiful view.) I’d post some pictures of my Himalayan adventures, but they’re all on 35 mm slides, which I really must convert to e-photos someday. At any rate, I’ve seen a lot of mountains, from the Sierra Nevada and Mount McKinley (now Denali) in North America to the Alps of Europe and the high Andes of South America—and none of them even come close to the Himalaya. When you first see those big mountains, as I did when hiking into Everest in the early 70s, you can’t believe their height. My first view of Everest was on the approach, and the peaks were shrouded with clouds, as they tend to be. All of a sudden a clear patch appeared in the sky, and in it was the summit of Everest. The thing is, it was much higher in the sky than I expected: it was up near the Sun!" - maitani - -

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Characters from The Iliad in ancient art | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2013...

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"The ancient Greeks were enormously innovative in many respects, including art and architecture. They produced elaborate illustrations on everything from the glorious Parthenon to a simple wine cup. Given its epic nature and crucial role in Greek education, many of the characters in the Iliad can be found in ancient art. From the hero Achilles to Hector’s charioteer, these depictions provide great insight into Greek culture and art. Here’s a brief slideshow of images from Barry B Powell’s new free verse translation of The Iliad by Homer which depict many of the prominent characters." - maitani - -

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Image of the Day: CRAAAACK! SPLIT! A Giant Iceberg Calves from Antarctica (Again...) - ImaGeo | DiscoverMagazine.com - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo...

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"The fastest moving ice stream in Antarctica, the Pine Island Glacier flows out of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. It is thinning rapidly as it discharges more ice into the ocean than any other glacier on the continent. And that rate of discharge has been increasing, possibly related to a warming climate. In a region that is frozen most of the time, how could warming be having this effect? The answer: water. Relatively warm water, to be exact, circulating under the ice shelf at the end of the Pine Island Glacier." - maitani - -

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"It has been anticipated since October, and now a large iceberg has finally split away from the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica. This is one big chunk of floating ice — 21 by 12 miles, or 252 square miles. (That’s a bit smaller than the city state of Singapore.) The Landsat 8 image above, from NASA’s Earth Observatory, shows it beginning to drift away on Nov. 13. (For more EO images of the event, go here.) This is by no means the first such large iceberg to calve from the glacier. A similar sized chunk cracked off and floated away just this past July." - maitani - -

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Correlation is not causation | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2013...

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For a radical skeptic, sure, there's actually no way to ever prove that correlation is causation (mainly because there's no way to prove anything.) All you'll end up with is an infinite recursion of dubious axiomatic systems with smaller and smaller (but never nil) uncertainties. But in practice, if you've got a correlation and a plausible mechanism and you can reproduce the desired effect with the putative cause, that's probably enough. - maitani - -

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Illuminating the Mediterranean’s pre-history | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2013...

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I do. I thought it was a very good summary. It was also the only book I could find that covered what I wanted :) (The Mitanni are even mentioned a couple of times ;)) - maitani - -

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Rationally Speaking: The pseudoscience black hole - http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.de/2013...

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"Rationally Speaking is a blog maintained by Prof. Massimo Pigliucci, a philosopher at the City University of New York. The blog reflects the Enlightenment figure Marquis de Condorcet's idea of what a public intellectual (yes, we know, that's such a bad word) ought to be: someone who devotes himself to "the tracking down of prejudices in the hiding places where priests, the schools, the government, and all long-established institutions had gathered and protected them." You're welcome. Please notice that the contents of this blog can be reprinted under the standard Creative Commons license." - maitani - -

"As I’ve mentioned on other occasions, my most recent effort in philosophy of science actually concerns what my collaborator Maarten Boudry and I call the philosophy of pseudoscience. During a recent discussion we had with some of the contributors to our book at the recent congress of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Maarten came up with the idea of the pseudoscience black hole. Let me explain." - maitani - -

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The 100 Best Novels: A Literary Critic Creates a List in 1898 | Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2013...

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"In late October, The Times Literary Supplement’s Michael Caines unearthed another Top 100 list; this one, however, has the distinction of hailing from 1898. At the turn of the 20th century, a journalist and author of numerous books on the Brontë sisters named Clement K. Shorter tried his hand at compiling the 100 Best Novels for a journal called The Bookman. The ground rules were simple: the list could feature only one novel per novelist, and living authors were excluded. Today, Shorter’s compendium looks somewhat hit-or-miss. There are some indisputable classics (many of which can be found in our Free eBooks and Free Audio Books collections) and some other texts that have faded into oblivion. Still—one can’t help but experience a certain historical frisson at a 19th century listsicle. Here it goes:" - maitani - -

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NeuroLogica Blog » Chopra Shoots at Skepticism and Misses - http://theness.com/neurolo...

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"Deepak Chopra apparently has no love for organized skepticism. This is not surprising and his particular brand of spiritual pseudoscience has been a favorite target of skeptical analysis. He is also not the only one who has decided to fight back against the skeptics – if you cannot defend yourself against legitimate criticism, then shoot the messenger." - maitani - -

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I wonder how much more money Chopra makes by dressing his bullshit up as science. Can't magic stand on its own feet anymore? - maitani - -

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How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Business | Wired.com - http://www.wired.com/busines...

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"These students in Matamoros, Mexico, didn’t have reliable Internet access, steady electricity, or much hope—until a radical new teaching method unlocked their potential." - maitani - -

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<a rel="nofollow" href="http://kottke.org/13/11/y... ; title="http://kottke.org/13/11/y... ; In 1999, Sugata Mitra left a computer in a New Delhi slum and watched what the neighborhood kids would do with it. With no prior computer experience, they quickly figured out how to work it. In subsequent experiments, Mitra used computers and very little adult oversight (what we refer to as "education") to teach children all sorts of different things. Over the years, Mitra got more ambitious. For a study published in 2010, he loaded a computer with molecular biology materials and set it up in Kalikuppam, a village in southern India. He selected a small group of 10- to 14-year-olds and told them there was some interesting stuff on the computer, and might they take a look? Then he applied his new pedagogical method: He said no more and left. Over the next 75 days, the children worked out how to use the computer and began to learn. When Mitra returned, he administered a written test on molecular biology. The kids answered about one in four questions correctly. After another 75 days, with the encouragement of a friendly local, they were getting every other question right. "If you put a computer in front of children and remove all other adult restrictions, they will self-organize around it," Mitra says, "like bees around a flower."" - maitani - -

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BBC News - Only in England: Photographs from a bygone era - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...

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"Martin Parr has selected dozens of Tony Ray-Jones' images to be shown at the Science Museum in London, alongside some of his own rarely seen images from the 1970s. Here, take a few minutes to look back at a bygone era." - maitani - -

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"Before his death at the age of 30, photographer Tony Ray-Jones spent the latter half of the 1960s travelling across England trying to capture a disappearing way of life." - maitani - -

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NeuroLogica Blog » Reprogramming Your Junk DNA - http://theness.com/neurolo...

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"Only 10% of our DNA is being used for building proteins. It is this subset of DNA that is of interest to western researchers and is being examined and categorized. The other 90% are considered “junk DNA.” The Russian researchers, however, convinced that nature was not dumb, joined linguists and geneticists in a venture to explore those 90% of “junk DNA.” Their results, findings and conclusions are simply revolutionary! According to them, our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body but also serves as data storage and in communication. The Russian linguists found that the genetic code, especially in the apparently useless 90%, follows the same rules as all our human languages. To this end they compared the rules of syntax (the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences), semantics (the study of meaning in language forms) and the basic rules of grammar. They found that the alkalines of our DNA follow a regular grammar and do have set rules just like our languages. So human languages did not appear coincidentally but are a reflection of our inherent DNA." - maitani - -

"Every now and then I come across a stunning example of pseudoscience, an exemplar, almost raising pseudoscience to an art form. Some pieces of scientific nonsense read almost like poetry. Such examples make me wonder what is going on in the mind of the pseudoscientist – to me, the most fascinating question. One example I recently came across is the idea that we can reprogram our DNA through words alone. Just about every red-flag of pseudoscience if flying high with this one. Here is the theory in a nutshell:" - maitani - -

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The science of consciousness must escape the religious dark ages | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2013...

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"To me, however, this typical way to frame a question has derailed all scientific progress. It is effectively religion in disguise, and perhaps also a bit of the worship of mystery. The objective phenomenon that we have in front of us, that we know exists, is not a semi-magical inner feeling. The phenomenon is that brains attribute that semi-magical property to themselves. Brains attach a high degree of certainty to that attribution. Attribution is not semi-magical. It’s in the domain of computation and information processing. It can be understood, it can be studied scientifically, and it can even be engineered." - maitani - -

"Each one of us has an inner feeling, an experience that is private. Consciousness, awareness, qualia, mind, call it what you will, it is the subtle distinction between merely computing information and feeling. The science of consciousness, a relatively new and growing area of research, asks how this non-physical feeling relates to the brain. How can circuits made of neurons do more than compute information—color, sound, location, and so on? How can they also create an awareness of those things? The answer to that question, if an answer is possible, would be the ultimate in human scientific understanding. That, at least, is the typical assumption." - maitani - -

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Henchmen of Ares | New at LacusCurtius & Livius - http://rambambashi.wordpress.com/2013...

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"Writing for a large audience no longer is what it used to be. The age in which professional academics “sent” their information to an audience has passed. The audience, nowadays, is highly educated (up to 40% in the western world), selects information, and will not accept the facts, unless they also learn how scholars have established these facts. More and more, the content they need resembles an academic publication, except for the fact that the larger audience is not interested in which scholar has reached what conclusion. That’s only important for the academic bean counters counting publications, creating citation indexes, and killing the humanities." - maitani - -

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"Here is a book I would like to recommend: it is called Henchmen of Ares. Warriors and Warfare in Ancient Greece, and it is written by my colleague Josho Brouwers. It was published a couple of days ago by Karwansaray, which is also responsible for my own Edge of Empire. If you still were under the impression that this little piece was in any way objective, I will add that I am the book’s editor." - maitani - -

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The Battle of Thermopylae and '300' | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2013...

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"In 2006 the Frank Miller-Zack Snyder bluescreen epic 300 was a box office smash. The Battle of Thermopylae – fought between a massive Persian invading army and a very much smaller Greek force led by King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans in a narrow pass at the height of summer 480 BC – had never been visualised quite like that before. So affecting was its portrayal, indeed, that it prompted the Iranian delegation to the United Nations to lodge a formal complaint at the way the Persians had been depicted, or rather denigrated as subhuman monsters — as if George ‘Dubya’ Bush had any interest in that very ancient history! But on one thing the Iranian delegation — and the filmmakers — were entirely correct, historically speaking. The Battle of Thermopylae was indeed a key part of a series of battles — otherwise known as the Graeco-Persian Wars — that were a genuine struggle for civilisation, a decisive culture clash on a world-historical scale." - maitani - -

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I haven't watched more than a few clips of the animated movie, but I've watched the 1962 movie, 'The 300 Spartans' , more times than I can remember. A B movie at best, but I love it. Hydarnes, Commander of the Immortals: [Xerxes has sent an emissary to demand the Spartan surrender] "Yesterday, we only probed your positions. When we attack today, our arrows will blot out the sun!" Leonidas, Spartan King: "Good; then we will fight in the shade." - maitani - -

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The World's 10 Most Polluted Places [Slide Show]: Scientific American - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article...

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"Agbogbloshie, a neighborhood of Accra, Ghana, wasn't a pretty place in 2006, but the rising flood of e-waste had yet to completely drown the dump in the middle of town in toxic pollution. Ghana now imports some 215,000 metric tons of European computers, cell phones, microwaves, refrigerators, televisions and other electronic goods, making Agbogbloshie the second-largest site for processing such e-waste in all of west Africa. It may yet take the title as largest because e-waste imports are expected to double by 2020. And Agbogbloshie has already earned the dubious distinction of landing on the Blacksmith Institute's top 10 list of the world's most polluted sites, after failing to make the cut for the original list in 2006." - maitani - -

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Letters of Note: The Matchbox - http://www.lettersofnote.com/2013...

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"Late-1946, English novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner received a Christmas present from friend and fellow writer, Alyse Gregory, that was to inspire what must surely be one of the most exquisite thank you letters ever written. The gift in question was an empty matchbox; Warner's magnificent response can be read below." - maitani - -

LOL! "P.S. There is still so much to say...carried away by my delight in form and texture I forgot to praise the picture on the back. I have never seen such an agreeable likeness of a hedgehog, and the volcano in the background is magnificent." - maitani - -

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SAWS - Sharing Ancient Wisdoms - http://www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/

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"The focus of the SAWS project is on collections of ideas and opinions – ranging from pithy sayings to short passages from longer philosophical texts - which make up the ancient genre of Wisdom Literature. Such collections are found in all the cultures of the Middle East and Europe; but they have tended to be treated by scholars as nothing more than quarries for the earlier materials which they excerpted. They are also not easy to publish in book form, since each collection is a composition with its own identity. But they are key components in understanding the societies where they circulated, and the formation and transmission of ideas, both within those societies and between them, since many have been chosen for translation. Thus the collection of sayings published by Caxton, which circulated in several western European languages, was based on the Spanish translation of an Arabic collection, itself drawing on ancient Greek traditions." - maitani - -

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Hear Homer’s Odyssey Read in the Original Ancient Greek | Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2013...

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"But Lombardo knows thoroughly the material he adapts. Even those of us who never learned Ancient Greek — if I may speak for this presumably large group of readers — can get a feel for Homer’s tale of the Trojan War and the soldiers’ long return home by listening to the professor’s delivery alone. Just above, you can see him give a reading from his English translation. It won’t surprise you to learn that he also reads the audio books. “We listened spellbound to the incantatory waves of Professor Stanley Lombardo’s voice telling the stories of Odysseus and his Odyssey and then those of the Trojan heroes of The Illiad,” writes Andrei Codrescu in an article on them for the Villager. “Professor Lombardo translated anew the immortal epics and immersed himself so deeply in their world his voice sounded as believable as the hills and valleys we crossed. His voice knows the tales and their enduring charms, and sounds for all the world like an ancient bard’s. Homer himself couldn’t have done better. In English no less, millennia later.”" - maitani - -

"Sure, you enjoyed hearing the way Ancient Greek music actually sounded last week, but what about the way Ancient Greek poetry actually sounded? We can find fewer finer or more recognizable examples of the stuff than Homer’s Iliad, and above you can hear an hour-long reading of its entire first book in the original Ancient Greek language. It comes from what may strike you as an unlikely source: Stanley Lombardo, a University of Kansas classicist (and also, as it happens, a Zen Buddhist) best known for his translations of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and Virgil’s Aeneid into contemporary-sounding English. “Sounding less like aristocratic warriors than like American G.I.’s, perhaps,” writes classics-steeped critic Daniel Mendelsohn in the New York Times review of Lombardo’s Iliad, “his epic heroes ‘badmouth’ and ‘beat the daylights out of one another and witheringly call one another ‘trash’ and ‘pansy.’”" - maitani - -

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Wide Urban World: Teotihuacan and the origins of market economies - http://wideurbanworld.blogspot.de/2013...

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"What about ancient societies? How far back can market economies be traced? Before the Urban Revolution, markets were either absent, or else they played a very minor role. Societies and economies were small and organized through face-to-face contacts. It is often difficult to even single out "the economy" as a distinct sphere in these small-scale societies, since production and exchange were deeply embedded within kinship groups and customary practices." - maitani - -

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Mycenae is an ancient city in the Peloponnese, (barely) mainland Greece. In the Iliad that's Agamemnon's kingdom, and it's also given the name to Greek bronze age civilization. They've corrected that first sentence about it being the name of Turkey in the article now :) (The chunk of land that is now known as Turkey is usually referred to as Anatolia in my ancient history books.) - maitani - -

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Climate Change Damage to Poor Countries Goes Far Beyond Money: Scientific American - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article...

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"Micronesia is one of nine nations that researchers recently reviewed in a report assessing loss and damage from climate change. Researchers conducted 3,269 household surveys, more than 100 focus group discussions and open interviews about the economic, social and cultural losses incurred by a changing climate in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Micronesia, Mozambique and Nepal." - maitani - -

"Most of the ancient ruins that Moses Ittu, 67, a resident of Lelu Island in the Federated State of Micronesia, visited and played around during his childhood have since disappeared into the ocean. In the last few decades, residents of the island have increasingly used the ancient stones to build walls to shield their homes and livelihoods from pounding waves and creeping sea water. "The sea keeps on rising, and the people need to protect themselves," Ittu told researchers who studied adaptation in response to coastal erosion in Micronesia for the Loss and Damage initiative at the U.N. University in Bonn, Germany." - maitani - -

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A Calendar Page for November 2013 - Medieval manuscripts blog - http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitis...

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"Hunting takes centre stage in these calendar pages for the month of November. In the full-page miniature, a nobleman can be seen returning from a stag-hunt; his quarry, a magnificently-antlered animal, is in the foreground, draped across a white horse. This nobleman is accompanied by two retainers and a group of tired-looking hounds, while in the background, peasants can be seen feeding their chickens and pigs, and preparing their farm buildings for winter. In the bas-de-page, a group of men are bowling - and, it appears, heatedly disputing a recent shot. On the following page are the saints' days and feasts for November, alongside a roundel containing a centaur archer for the zodiac sign Sagittarius; below, two men are coursing hounds on yet another hunt." - maitani - -

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