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Philosophy, classics and academia

From Philosophy Now, an interview with Christopher Phillips, author of Socrates in Love; more on Richard Rorty; if there’s one thing you should be able to rely upon to know who you are it should be your own name, but perhaps not; three questions, and in each case the answer is philosophically interesting. The interest turns on the further question: “What is a person?”; and there is not only a right way to live, but also a right way to figure out what that is; and a book called Mixing It Up With The Simpsons has been sent to youth advisors in every diocese in England. 

A review of Ancient Greece: From the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer by Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy and Irene S. Lemos. A review of Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece by Joan Breton Connelly. A review of Greek Colonisation: An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas. The introduction to The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome by Joy Connolly.  A review of Excess and Restraint: Propertius, Horace, & Ovid's Ars Amatoria. A review of Roman Pompeii: Space and Society by Ray Laurence. A review of Feeling History. Lucan, Stoicism, and the Poetics of Passion by Francesca D'Alessandro Behr. A review of Seeing Seneca Whole: Perspectives on Philosophy, Poetry and Politics by K. Volk by G.D. Williams.

Professors on the Battlefield: Where the warfare is more than just academic. Academics from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond have protested against the arrest of Berlin sociologist Andrej H. The researcher has been in jail for two weeks on suspicion of membership in a terrorist group. Your Virtual Ph.D.: No more pencils, no more books: With PopSci's guide to the best continuing-ed programs on the Web, you can lose the paper and still gain a grade-A education. Have Ph.D., will travel: Academia is increasingly dependent on flexible, part-time faculty. Sound and the Fury: When Gallaudet University hired a hearing football coach who knew no sign language, it was a clash of cultures. Two years later, the once-moribund program is making plenty of noise.