February 4, 2009
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pridie nonas februarias 211 — death of Septimius Severus at York; his son Caracalla assumed the title of pontifex maximus at this time
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interdict (Wordsmith) hypotyposis (Worthless Word for the Day) prescriptive (OED) cognate (Merriam-Webster) virtuoso (Dictionary.com)
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The 2009 meeting of the Hibernian Hellenists will take place at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, on 13/14 March. The programme of papers is as follows: Friday 13 March 20:00 Professor Michael Silk (King’s College, London), ‘The Greek Dramatic Genres: Theoretical Perspectives’. Saturday 14 March 09:30 Professor Hans van Wees (University College London), ‘Perfect…
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Workshop on Latin Poetic Commentary This is a joint enterprise between the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, and the Corpus Christi College Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity, University of Oxford, convened by Profs. Bruce Gibson and Stephen Harrison, and inspired by the U.S. commentary workshops at Georgetown…
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Intensive Course on the Study and Performance of Ancient Greek Drama, 2009 The seventh Summer School, organised under the auspices of the European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama, will be held at Epidauros from the 6th to the 19th July 2009. The theme will be “Exploring European Identities/Ideologies by…
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