Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) was an English archaeologist who revolutionized excavation methods, thus laying the basis for modern archaeological techniques. Flinders Petrie was born on June 3, 1853, at Charlton near Greenwich. He was e...
Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus. By ALEXANDER JONES. 2 vols. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 223. Philadelphia: AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 1999. Pp. xii + 368, 471, 12 plates. $50. Around the turn of the twentieth century, the pioneering work of Fathers J....
Deep into the second act of Ted Hughes's "Tales From Ovid," a hunter in a wood spies on a beautiful woman bathing in a stream. Her milky skin entrances him; his lusty gaze enrages her. She is Diana, goddess of the hunt, and she...
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