April 5, 2010
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This is an interesting bit of tourist promotion … first we read at Earth Times: The mention of Serbia usually brings to mind the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, but rarely ever the Roman Empire – despite the fact that 18 Roman rulers, one fifth of all emperors, were born on its territory.…
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Posted with permission from Peter Jones (I’m hoping to find time to blog a bit more on related matters later; I’m a bit late with this): You may have seen references in the press to a Friends of Classics survey on teaching classics in schools in the UK, in association with Mayor Boris Johnson’s ‘Latin…
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Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): Cicero Awayday VI Monday 17 May 2010 Newcastle University, Research Beehive, room 2.20 The Cicero Awaydays offer an informal forum for presenting papers (whether full-fledged ones or work in progress) on any aspect of Cicero’s life and…
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Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): Please find below an outline of the programme for the forthcoming postgraduate workshop “Religion and Identity in the Ancient World” to take place at Durham University on 22nd and 23rd April. Organised under the auspices of Durham…
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Nice little video from the BBC: more about “Pompeii Casts“, posted with vodpod From the accompanying text (with a somewhat unfortunate headline, as FT noted on twitter last night): They are the skeletal remains of the victims that have been preserved under a thin veneer of plaster, to give them their life form. “Until now,…
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