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From the Author: Visualizing Race Virtually with Dr. David Sterling Brown
- 07 March 2024,
- Dr. David Sterling Brown is an award-winning author and a tenured Associate Professor of English at Trinity College, Connecticut. His book, Shakespeare’s...
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Multimedia at Minoan Myrtos–Pyrgos, Crete
- 19 February 2024,
- It is rare in the scholarship of Bronze Age Crete, during a period as old as the third and second millennia BCE, to present an inclusive account and analysis...
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The importance of open access publishing for the arts and humanities
- 20 December 2023,
- Between 2012 and 2014, I held a two-year Wellcome Trust Research Leave Award (WT096499AIA) for a project on women surgeons in Britain, 1860-1918.…
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Not Broke, but You Can See the Cracks
- 04 April 2024,
- “Not as bad as we might have feared; not as good as we might have hoped” is one way to think of the four years in which Donald Trump put his uniquely Trumpian The post Not Broke, but You Can See the Cracks first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
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Gods in a nutshell: divine names in the ancient Mediterranean world
- 27 March 2024,
- Thales of Miletus, in the 6th century BCE, asserted that “everything is full of gods”. In his view, even inanimate things were in fact animate. The post Gods in a nutshell: divine names in the ancient Mediterranean world first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
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No one hates like a Greek neighbour? Athens and Boiotia in a different perspective
- 19 March 2024,
- Anyone who has ever watched the Six Nations in Rugby or the World Cup in Football probably is familiar with the sentiment of beating a neighbouring country The post No one hates like a Greek neighbour? Athens and Boiotia in a different perspective first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
Color Us Greek
While it’s too much to imagine that those endlessly fascinating Greek ancestors of ours were color-blind, they most certainly were keen on marking difference, linguistically and geographically. But what about “racially?” What was “blackness” to a citizen of Ancient Greece, and what did the blackness of Sub-Saharan Africans, in fact, signify? And what in the world did an “Ethiopian” such as Memnon, whose people were favored by the gods, appear to be physically in the Greek imagination? Speculation about such complex matters has never elicited more energetic speculation and wishful thinking from scholars, journalists, and filmmakers than today, who inevitably read Greek attitudes toward physical differences through the lens of black-white race relations in the West today. Which is why Sarah Derbew’s Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity is a most welcome corrective to the school of Afrocentricity that would paint even Greek-descended Cleopatra black. Bringing deep learning and calm, convincing reasoning to a politically-loaded subject is always difficult. But Professor Derbew accomplishes this task with eloquence, grace, and hard-hitting analytical skills that make this book must reading for all of us who long to know how racial differences manifested themselves in the sublime culture from which we all descend.
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