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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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 [...]