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There are many portraits of the Athenian philosopher Socrates. But do these accurately reflect what he might have looked like?
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BIJAN OMRANI Piecing together Greek influence in the Asian kingdom of Bactria.
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My book draft contains large passages on the statuary of Constantinople. As I scribbled them up I realised that few - unless they specialise in ancient Greek art - know any of the names of the great sculptors and artists. At best, they have heard a few famous names such as the Aphrodite of Cnidus or the Apollo Belvedere, perhaps Lysippus' name has even crossed their lips at a prestigious museum, but few can recite these artistic titans in the same way as the canon of western painters. This is a
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Dan adds UTF-8 support to the CMS that powers the Bodleian Libraries' websites, and ponders how he'd justify the scope of Unicode to a (hypothetical) time-traveling scribe from ancient Egypt.
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