July 21, 2009
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A Globe and Mail writer attended ‘gladiator school’ … here’s the incipit of a lengthy piece: I am clad in a scratchy tunic and sandals, wielding a sword that weighs as much as a small child and peering through the visor of a helmet that threatens to smother me under the Hades-hot Roman sun. The…
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Peter Green (emeritus, UTexas at Austin) has a lengthy review of Anthony Grafton, Worlds Made By Words and Roger H. Martin, Racing Odysseus in the Times of London. Here’s my favourite paragraph (with favourite sentence highlighted): More immediately accessible is a vigorous (and to me very welcome) defence of humanist Latin as a still-viable scholarly…
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The Public Domain site enlightens us:
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From the Mirror’s celebrity gossip pages: Lindsay Lohan looks like an extra from the blockbuster movie Gladiator as she strides through LA in knee-high black sandal boots. Perhaps ancient Roman is the latest trend or maybe she wants a patterned tan on her legs. Beyonce looks even happier in strappy pumps and nephew Daniel seems…
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From a press release via Earthtimes: Researcher David Xavier Kenney discovered the inscriptions on the 2nd to 3rd century artifact which was found on a hilltop in Norfolk County, England and is part of his collection. Among the revelations on the lance head (or contos head) is that the real King Arthur may have been…