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- concept of the cosmopolitan in Greek & Roman thought, The
- Cosmopolitan, the English equivalent of the older French word cosmopolite, derives from the ancient Greek term kosmopolitës kosmos plus polites to signify "citizen of the world." The original Cynic philosopher Diogenes of Sinope (c. 390-323 B.C.), notorious for his "in your face" discourse and readiness to do everything in public,...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- The age of magicians: periodization in the history of European magic.(Report)
- John Maynard Keynes once described Sir Isaac Newton, perhaps the greatest figure of the scientific revolution, as being "not the first of the age of reason" but "the last of the magicians." (1) Keynes was commenting, among other things, on Newton's fascination with alchemy and the...
- Research articles 2008-06-22
- Frank Sear. Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study
- FRANK SEAR. Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study. x1+466 pages, 492 figures, 144 plates, 25 tables. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 0-19-814469-5 hardback 195 [pounds sterling]. It is nearly 70 years since the publication of Margarete Bieber's History of the Greek and Roman Theater and over 40 since its second...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Roman's Stanley selects Loyola
- Roman Catholic's Courtney Stanley, a senior point guard, has made an oral commitment to play basketball at Loyola University in Chicago."I really got close with Loyola's coaches, got to know them real well over the summer," Stanley said. "That was a big factor in my decision."The 6-foot-1, 175-pound Stanley averaged...
- Research articles 2007-10-17
- Roman's Stanley on a high after committing to Loyola Chicago
- In retrospect, the gesture could have been a disaster.The basketball coaches at Loyola University Chicago this past weekend took a prime recruit to dinner in a swanky restaurant on the 95th floor of the Hancock Center."I'm not a big fan of heights,'' Courtney Stanley said. "Being way up there ....
- Research articles 2007-10-16
- Grant - I'm not Abramovich's puppet
- LONDON AFP — Avram Grant insists he is not Roman Abramovich's stooge and did not play a role in Jose Mourinho's dramatic departure from Chelsea. Grant is convinced Abramovich will allow him to manage the London club without interference, even though Mourinho's exit was prompted by the Chelsea owner's...
- Research articles 2007-09-21
- Ancient Roman conquest tunnel found in Jerusalem
- JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli archaeologists said on Sunday they had discovered parts of an ancient drainage tunnel in Jerusalem that Jews had used to flee from the Holy City's Roman conquerors 2,000 years ago. "The tunnel, in an excellent state of preservation, was found by chance," said Eli Shukron...
- Research articles 2007-09-09
- ARMY Magazine Hooah Guide to COUNTERINSURGENCY COIN, The
- A Short Course on a Big Mission: U.S. involvement in counterinsurgency COIN operations and now the American character programmed itself for doing good in bad situations, along with an abbreviated version of the new Field Manual 3-24 Counterinsurgency and the startling shifts insurgency is making-dimensions of warfare heretofore unimaginable and...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- ALA.(American Library Association appointed Charles E. Kratz and Larry Romans)(Brief article)
- ALA announced that Charles E. Kratz and Larry Romans have been elected to serve on the ALA executive board. They will each serve 3-year terms beginning in June 2007. Currently, Kratz is dean of the Library and Information Fluency at the University of Scranton...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Ancient Jewish city found under Palestinian suburb
- JERUSALEM AFP — Workers digging a new Jerusalem tram line have stumbled upon the remains of an ancient Jewish city from the first century AD under what is now a Palestinian suburb of the Holy City. Archaeologists are frantically working to unearth the nameless settlement that lies beneath the...
- Research articles 2007-03-31
- Egyptian queen Cleopatra was no stunner, coin shows
- LONDON AFP — When Shakespeare wrote that the face of Cleopatra, the ancient queen of Egypt, "beggar'd all description", he meant that words could not sum up her beauty. But a coin dating from 32BC and put on display in Britain Tuesday shows the phrase had an unintended double...
- Research articles 2007-02-14
- Morning Bytes | Looking back on great city stars of past
- This Philadelphia February, filled with flops, failures, fraternal felonies and foot problems, possesses little to cheer the sporting soul. So what better way to pass the time than to go online and peruse the all-Catholic and all-Public boys basketball teams of the last 65 years. Here's what I...
- Research articles 2007-02-09
- Never saw it coming
- DENNIS SEDDON has seen pictures. He knows the face, but no longer recognizes the man. This is not the Eddie Griffin he knew. This is not the young man he coached at Roman Catholic High School, the one with so much potential as a basketball player and a...
- Research articles 2007-01-29
- The Middle East under Rome.(Book review)
- The Middle East under Rome. By Maurice Sartre. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 665. $39.95.) Studies of the Roman Near East have proliferated recently, not least because the Roman experience of what was and is the meeting point of vastly different cultures...
- Research articles 2006-12-22
- Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome
- FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS AND FLAVIAN ROME. Edited by Jonathan Edmondson, Steve Mason, & James Rives. Oxford, UK. Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi + 400. Cloth, $135.00. For readers familiar with the name Josephus--whether as a Jewish general named Yosef ben Mattityahu who fought in the Galilee in resistance against...
- Research articles 2006-12-22
- Tall Trees, Tall Thinking and Tall Poppies
- Tall Trees, Tall Thinking and Tall PoppiesTall poppy originsReaders may be interested to know that this incident derives from a story from the time of the Roman kings. Tarquinius Superbus needed to relate a message to his son Sextus, as to how to handle the local patricians in the...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- CHEAT SHEET
- The buzz We here at Cheat Sheet give a standing ovation to the Catholic League on its decision to move the boys' and girls' championships to the basketball mecca that is the Palestra. You heard it correctly, the boys' playoffs will not return to the Blech-a that is La Salle's...
- Research articles 2006-10-07
- Rome Returns; A spate of new books--and a BBC miniseries--on the ancient world's greatest superpower prove eerily resonant.
- Byline: Tara Pepper When a band of pirates ravaged the Roman port of Ostia in 67 B.C., the Roman general Pompey the Great was granted extraordinary powers to manage the crisis. Despite vehement opposition from the aristocracy, who suspected his motives, Pompey was handed...
- Research articles 2006-09-25
- Rome Returns
- When a band of pirates ravaged the Roman port of Ostia in 67 B.C., the Roman general Pompey the Great was granted extraordinary powers to manage the crisis. Despite vehement opposition from the aristocracy, who suspected his motives, Pompey was handed absolute control of the sea and the coast for...
- Research articles 2006-09-25
- Roman nudes and athletics
- CHRISTOPHER H. HALLETT. The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC-AD 300 Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture and Presentation. xxii+391 pages, 12 figures, 160 plates. 2005. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 0-19-924049-3 hardback 80 [pounds sterling]. ZAHRA NEWBY. Greek Athletics in the Roman World.. Victory and Virtue (Oxford Studies in...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
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