Classics News and Events
Mary Magdalene: Why has she been so maligned?
Suzanne Frey-Kupper in interview by Dominic Utton for Daily Express 17 March 2018
Coin of the Month: The Athenian polis and winged symbola
Mairi Gkikaki explores the significance of insects on Athenian tokens in March's coin of the month.
Winds and Antigone's Madness
This month on the Classical Texting Blog, Bianca Mazzinghi Gori discusses the significance of wind in Sophocles' Antigone in 'Winds and Antigone's Madness'.
New blog by Dr. Caroline Petit "Forbidden material, illicit books? Galen on Xenocrates of Aphrodisias"
In this blog I reflect on Galen's ambivalent take on earlier works dealing with forbidden material, such as Xenocrates' treatise On animal parts.
https://www.medicineancientandmodern.com/2018/01/28/forbidden-material-galen-on-xenocrates-of-aphrodisias/
Expressing Identities in Graeco–Latin Bilingual Inscriptions
This month on Classical Texting, Paloma Perez Galvan discusses bilingualism in her entry 'Expressing Identities in Graeco-Latin Bilingual Inscriptions'.