March 11, 2010
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From an announcement of an upcoming lecture in Philly somewhere: Holly Blackford, an associate professor of English literature at Rutgers-Camden, is the evening’s guest speaker. Her lecture, “Persephone in the Twilight Zone of Divorce: Lost Child, Underworld Queen in Stephenie Meyer’s Adaptation of Emily Bronte,” will compare “Twilight” and its main character, Bella, to “Wuthering…
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From Novinite: One of Bulgaria’s top Ancient Thrace sites, the Starosel Tomb, has been dated to the 4th century BC after years of research. With German help a team of archaeologists of the Bulgarian National History Museum led by Dr. Ivan Hristov has managed to estimate the timing of the construction of the largest underground…
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Interesting item coming to auction … from the Telegraph; some excerpts: Dug up by former brick layer Pete Beasley in 1999, it was discovered yards from a hoard of other artefacts that are now at the British Museum. The jewel dates from the first century, measures just 2.5 inches in length and depicts an emperor…
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Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): QUEENSLAND GREEK HISTORY CONFERENCE Brisbane, 22-23 October 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS The Inaugural Queensland Greek History Conference will be taking place at The University of Queensland on 22 and 23 October 2010. The two keynote speakers will…
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ante diem v idus martias Festival of Mars (day 11) 222 A.D. — murder of the emperor Elagabalus ca. 263 A.D. — martyrdom of Heraclius ca. 300 A.D. — martyrdom of Thalus ca. 300 A.D. — martyrdom of Trophimus 1903 — birth of Ronald Syme (The Roman Revolution, among other seminal works)
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