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Archaeology and the Homeric Question, Part 1 http://oralpoetry.blogspo... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/...

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"In this post I propose to explore the relationship between the discipline of archaeology and the Homeric Question, taking Orchomenos as a jumping off point. In so doing my aim is not so much to show something new about this relationship or to offer a new interpretation of the verses concerning Orchomenos, but rather to take this opportunity to give an overview of an important topic within the history of Homeric scholarship that has many implications for our understanding of the oral tradition in which the Iliad and Odyssey were composed. This post will focus on the history of the relationship between archaeology and the Homeric Question; future posts will address more theoretical aspects." - maitani - -

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"Tragedy" and responsibility in the Mediterranean http://www.eurozine.com/a... http://www.eurozine.com/U...

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"The European Union is willing to use costly police and military operations to suppress refugee mobility, write Mariagiulia Giuffré and Cathryn Costello. Which, in short, means responding to those fleeing war, repression and human rights abuses with more of the same. So what are the alternatives?" - maitani - -

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Which Baby Animals Look Cute? It May Be No Accident http://blogs.discovermaga... http://blogs.discovermaga...

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"Sure, there are faces only a mother could love. And then there are faces no mother loves, because they belong to animals that fend for themselves from birth. The babies we find cutest—no matter what species they are—may have evolved to look that way because they need a parent’s attention. That means even a crocodile can tug on our heartstrings." - maitani - -

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In ecology, we call that innate "cuteness" the "I'm a baby stimuli." It reinforces parental care in altricial species. :) - Jenny H - -

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Cities on the bay http://www.the-tls.co.uk/... http://www.the-tls.co.uk/...

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"In the seventh century BC, before there was a new city called Naples, there was an old city on more or less the same site called Parthenope. Both were Greek, both founded by Greeks who were occupying many other coastal parts of southern Italy at the time. Exactly which Greeks and when? That is a question which still exercises scholars, including Lorenzo Miletti at the beginning of this book. Were these occupiers invaders or colonists? As a general rule of historiography Romans “invade” and Greeks “colonize”, but any distinction made by the locals has not survived. The story of one of the Western world’s oldest continuously occupied cities begins with Parthenope." - maitani - -

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Vineyard habitats help butterflies return http://www.sciencedaily.c... http://images.sciencedail...

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"Wine grape vineyards experimenting with sustainable pest management systems are seeing an unexpected benefit: an increase in butterflies. Over the years, loss in natural habitat has seen the decline in numbers of around 50 species of butterflies in eastern Washington." - maitani - -

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I adore the wine country in northern California, Maitani. :) Of course, I also love the Mediterranean woodland ecotype with or without vineyards, but I think vineyards add to the beauty. :) - Jenny H - -

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6,000 Years of History Visualized in a 23-Foot-Long Timeline of World History, Created in 1871 http://www.openculture.co... http://cdn8.openculture.c...

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"A beautiful early example of visualizing the flow of history, Sebastian C. Adams’ Synchronological Chart of Universal History outlines the evolution of mankind from Adam and Eve to 1871, the year of its first edition." - maitani - -

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David Rumsey Map Collection http://www.davidrumsey.co... - maitani - -

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I am really glad that frenf.it lets us "like" comments. I "like" comments to show that I appreciate WHAT you said or the fact THAT you commented. Often it replaces a "thank you" for your feedback or for answering a question of mine. When I wanted to express these things on ff, I often regretted that a quite empty phrase like "thank you", concealed a comment which might be interesting to others.

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Bibliographia Iranica http://www.biblioiranica.... http://i2.wp.com/www.aras...

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"A few years ago, I started a Twitter account, where I wished to tweet about new publications in Iranian Studies. The Twitter format, however, was not suitable and I closed the account. Unsatisfied with the search capabilities of Facebook, where information is difficult to retrieve (a black hole), I decided to put together this site, where I will announce publications and events relevant to Iranian Studies. If time permits it, I will annotate new publications, and if not, they will just be announced. In the context of this site Iranian Studies refers to more than just pre-Islamic Iran and Zoroastrianism. I use the Unified Style Sheet as a bibliographic format, which is in part promoted by the Linguistics Society of America." - maitani - -

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We can melt ice sheets and cook landscapes. When humans made fire, they made themselves and their planet too http://aeon.co/magazine/s... http://cdn-imgs-mag.aeon....

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"Among the ancient elements, fire is the odd one out. Earth, water, air – all are substances. Fire is a reaction. It synthesises its surroundings, takes its character from its context. It burns one way in peat, another in tallgrass prairie, and yet another through lodgepole pine; it behaves differently in mountains than on plains; it burns hot and fast when the air is dry and breezy, and it might not burn at all in fog. It’s a shapeshifter." - maitani - -

I'd like to know the taste of cooked landscape, however. I usually prefer it raw, as sushi. - Haukr - -

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Totes http://languagelog.ldc.up...

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"Back in March, Lauren Spradlin gave a wonderful talk at PLC 39, under the title "OMG the Word-Final Alveopalatals are Cray-Cray Prev: A Morphophonological Account of Totes Constructions in English". It's been on my to-blog list ever since." - maitani - -

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There is no way for me to bump my own post I take it. :( The stork fledglings are so cute right now. I really want my Storchennest post to come up [edit]

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bump? - Haukr - -

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add and then remove a comment - .mau. - -

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Das Steinere Meer http://i.imgur.com/2vxSdy...

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This was sent to me today by someone who is on a short vacation in Austria. - maitani - -

Very pretty! - Jennifer D. - -

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Spring in my roof garden http://i.imgur.com/5mjtSQ...

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New Book: Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds https://memiyawanzi.wordp... https://i0.wp.com/assets....

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"Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked. Language played a key role in state-formation and the spread of Christianity, the construction of ethnicity, and negotiating positions of social status and group membership. Language could reinforce social norms and shed light on taboos. This book presents an accessible account of ways in which linguistic evidence can illuminate topics such as imperialism, ethnicity, social mobility, religion, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, without assuming the reader has any knowledge of Greek or Latin, or of linguistic jargon. It describes the rise of Greek and Latin at the expense of other languages spoken around the Mediterranean and details the social meanings of different styles, and the attitudes of ancient speakers towards linguistic differences." - maitani - -

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Milestone: Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies http://ancientworldonline... http://journals.sub.uni-h...

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"At the beginning of May 2015, AWOL's Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies passed the 1500 title mark. While I make every effort to make sure that all links are working, some come and go, and others fall out of use. If you notice any broken links, please send me a comment. I'll do my best to fix them. Likewise if you know of a title that is missing from the list, please let me know." - maitani - -

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He does great work, I couldn't appreciate it more. Thank you, Mr Jones! - maitani - -

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Now Available Online | Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām http://kleos.chs.harvard.... http://kleos.chs.harvard....

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"Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran focuses on the content of one of the most important inscriptions of the Ancient Near East: the Bisotun inscription of the Achaemenid king Darius I (6th century BCE), which in essence reports on a suspicious fratricide and subsequent coup d’état. Moreover, the study shows how the inscription’s narrative would decisively influence the Iranian epic, epigraphic, and historiographical traditions well into the Sasanian and early Islamic periods." - maitani - -

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Lexicity http://lexicity.com/

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"The first and only comprehensive index for ancient language resources on the internet." - maitani - -

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I seriously risk not doing anything else but using the links of this website, now. - Haukr - -

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The wunderkammer http://surprisedbytime.bl... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/...

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"Wunderkammern fascinate me, so I have made my own small cabinet of small things that belong no place in particular. Small things attract other small things, so I am going to have to get another cabinet. Meanwhile, I take some out, put others in, rearranging to find ways for these small things to speak to one another. Perhaps the main thing they have in common is that each one is small enough to be concealed in my hands." - maitani - -

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Glossary of linguistic terms http://www-01.sil.org/lin...

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"This is a living glossary, and suggestions are welcome for additions or corrections. Please send your comments to: SIL International Linguistics Coordinator." - maitani - -

Found via Another Word For It http://tm.durusau.net/?p=... one of my favorite blogs - maitani - -

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Mystery of India’s rapid move toward Eurasia 80 million years ago explained http://www.sciencedaily.c... http://images.sciencedail...

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"More than 140 million years ago, India was part of an immense supercontinent called Gondwana, which covered much of the Southern Hemisphere. Around 120 million years ago, what is now India broke off and started slowly migrating north, at about 5 centimeters per year. Then, about 80 million years ago, the continent suddenly sped up, racing north at about 15 centimeters per year -- about twice as fast as the fastest modern tectonic drift. The continent collided with Eurasia about 50 million years ago, giving rise to the Himalayas." - maitani - -

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Introducing The Bookist, Amitava Kumar's new column http://www.hindustantimes... http://www.hindustantimes...

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"Maya Angelou could work only in hotel or motel rooms. Truman Capote couldn't begin or end anything on a Friday. Igor Stravinsky performed headstands when he needed a break and Saul Bellow did thirty push-ups. For the work to go on, John Cheever required erotic release." - maitani - -

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Destination India http://blog.oup.com/2015/... http://blog.oup.com/wp-co...

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"What would it be like driving overland from London — East of Suez and over the Khyber Pass — to India ? Day by day and mile by mile, we found out, recording our impressions and experiences of people, landscape, and encounters as we drove a 107″ wheel base Land Rover from London to Jaipur. The year was 1956; the months July and August. Our 5,000 mile journey took us across the ecological and cultural limes distinguishing Europe from Asia and into the Indian subcontinent. As freshly minted PhDs, 26- and 28-years-old, we were open to adventure and to knowledge of the other. Funded by a Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training fellowship, we found ourselves positioned at the cusp of the area studies era generated by the end of colonial rule." - maitani - -

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A language hunter, a legend hunter http://riowang.blogspot.d... http://www.studiolum.com/...

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"As it happens, I was looking for something else in a bookcase when I spotted my tattered 1981 paperback of “Tales and Legends of Sistan”, an annotated publication of the Soviet Academy of Sciences – and I was surprised to recognize that I can still recite a few verses of the beautiful Russian translation, and that I still remember how the book project was born, after a surprise discovery that an expat Sistani legend-teller lived, quietly, in a small town in Turkmenistan. But I realized that I knew nothing about the linguist and poet who recorded and translated these stories, some of them canonical Rustam legends from Shahnameh, the Book of Kings, and other, hitherto unknown legends also recited as historic truth, and others retold as fictionary fairy tales with their own canon." - maitani - -

This is from an old g+ post of mine. My attention was drawn to it again when I was notified that someone had "liked" this today. - maitani - -

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‘A Piece of Cake’ http://chronicle.com/blog... http://chronicle.com/blog...

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"It started with an email from my eclectic friend Wes Davis. He said he’d been reading Tinkerbelle, by, he told me, “Robert Manry, a copy editor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer who, in 1965, took a leave of absence from his job and sailed a 13-and-a-half-foot wooden boat across the Atlantic, from Falmouth, Mass., to Falmouth, England.” He’d come upon a passage he thought would interest me. Manry is just starting out and it’s a beautiful day, “the wind strong enough to keep us moving along briskly.” He observes: “I told myself that if most of the days ahead were as pleasant as this, our trip would be a breeze, or, as the English say, a piece of cake.”" - maitani - -

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COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY http://compmyth.org/journ... http://compmyth.org/journ...

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The inaugural issue of Comparative Mythology has been published! - maitani - -

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ahah so many thanks then! I gave a glance to it, a few papers are looking at Witzel's last work (and he's the one behind the board, I suppose). I must say I haven't examined his last book thoroughly, and specially the quite controversial theory of a Laurasian mythology, as opposed to one from Gondwana. The paper about the Ashvins is written by Allen and I liked it much. - Haukr - -

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