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Subject: Re: Scythian Gold exhibit (was: Internet Book...)
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Does anyone know to what cities the exhibition "Gold of the Nomads" will be
heading?  I'm in Columbus, OH, and want to know if it will be anywhere
nearby.

ML
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janice Siegel" <jsiegel@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu>
To: <classics@u.washington.edu>
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 11:49 AM
Subject: Scythian Gold exhibit (was: Internet Book...)


> Elizabeth Vandiver wrote:
>
> > Anyone who possibly can should go to the Walters Gallery in Baltimore to
see
> > the exhibition "Gold of the Nomads." This is an exhibit of Scythian art,
> > astonishingly beautiful  in its own right and downright fascinating to
anyone
> > with an interest in Herodotus.
> >
> > The exhibit  closes in Baltimore on May 28, and then goes on to other
> > American cities, though I'm sorry to say I don't remember which ones. I
> > believe it will end up in Paris some time next year.
> >
> > Elizabeth Vandiver
>
> May 28th is a big day for exhibition closings. Philadelphia Art Museum's
"Rome in
> the 18th century" closes then as well. Also very much worth seeing. And
some of
> my *students* told me about the Scythian exhibit and want to go on a road
trip to
> see it. Well...OK!
>
> That also reminds me...the UPenn Museum asked 48 or so people
distinguished in
> their field to go into the bowels of the museum storage spaces and pick
out one
> artifact that particularly inspired them. Right outside the Greek Gallery
is Tom
> Stoppard's choice - a papyrus fragment from Oxyrhyncus, along with a short
text
> explaining the difficulties of textual transmission and re-construction
that most
> people are so unaware of (I don't think it was a coincidence that
"Invention of
> Love" was playing at the same time down the street at the Wilma!).
>
> Cheers,
> Janice
>
> Janice Siegel
> Temple University
>



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