October 2009
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Seen on the Classicists list: Third International Summer School in Greek Palaeography, August 16-22, Oxford The Third Lincoln College International Summer School in Greek Palaeography will take place in August 2010. Further information can be found on www-gpss.linc.ox.ac.uk. The programme consists of more than 25 hours of teaching in the form of lectures, seminars, reading…
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Latest: Czech Republic to sign Lisbon Treaty / Germany to lower taxes / Airplane misses airport News.
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Yet another misuse of vomitorium: Rome was a custom-borrowing society, and elite Romans happily scooped up Greek food culture. But what we remember most about Rome, food-wise, is the period of its decadence, symbolized by disgustingly overwrought banquets and the vomitorium. We haven’t gone so far as to install vomitoria in the bathrooms of fast…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Eleanor Jefferson for passing along that today is apparently “Cyrus the Great Day” according to the International Committee to Save the Archeological Sites of Pasargad. According to the website: Twenty five centuries ago, when savagery was the dominant factor in human societies, a civilized and compassionate declaration was written on…
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ante diem iv kalendas novembres ludi Victoriae Sullanae (day 4)– games held in honour of Victoria commemorating Sulla’s defeat of the Samnites in 82 B.C. 1729 — birth of James Boswell (biographer of Johnson)
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