Citanda: Pliny — the Elder and the Younger
Mary Beard‘s latest … A Don’s Life by Mary Beard | Times Online.
Vomitorium Watch … Alas …
Image via Wikipedia Hot on the heels of someone actually using the word ‘vomitorium‘ correctly, we lapse into our old sin … and it’s kind of surprising who is doing it. Here’s the incipit from the Times: He owes his success to history, but the author Terry Deary has described historians as “seedy and devious”. [...]
d.m. Tom Elliott (UToronto)
via the Canadian Classical Bulletin
This Day in Ancient History: pridie kalendas junias
pridie kalendas junias 70 A.D. – Titus captures Jerusalem’s outermost wall. 1st century — martyrdom of Petronilla 170 A.D. — martyrdom of Hermias at Cappadocia 1723 — death of William Baxter (grammarian and translator of Latin)
