August 3, 2009
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The Independent has a review of Tom Payne, Fame: From the Bronze Age to Britney … here are some excerpts: […] The teacher’s first book, Fame: From the Bronze Age to Britney, published next week, is set to do for classics what Harry Mount’s much-lauded Amo, Amas, Amat … and All That achieved for Latin…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Abstract submissions are invited for consideration by the convenors of a conference titled "Genre in the Ancient World", hosted by the Department of Classics and Ancient History, at the University of Sydney, Australia. The conference welcomes papers on any topic relating to genre in the Ancient World. Additionally, there will…
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ante diem iii nonas sextiles supplicia canum — a ritual which was the ‘fallout’ from the story of the geese saving Rome from the Gauls; as punishment to the ‘watchdogs’ who didn’t bark, every year the Romans would crucify a dog 8 A.D. — victory of the future emperor Tiberius at Illyricum 178 A.D. —…
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