July 9, 2010
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(please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Lutheranism & the Classics, 1 and 2 October, 2010, Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Indiana. The Age of the Reformation was also the Age of the Renaissance, a period to which the birth of the modern discipline of classics may be…
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In my never-ending quest to ensure journalists ‘get it right’, from an ABC piece about eating disorders, inter alia: Contrary to popular belief, vomitoriums were not used by the Roman elite to get rid of their stomach contents. The vomitorium is an architectural structure within the Roman amphitheatre, designed to alleviate crowds by allowing the…
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Image via Wikipedia From the Canadian Classical Bulletin, with the kind permission of John G. Fitch: Herbert Henry Huxley, Professor of Latin at the University of Victoria from 1968 to 1979, died on 5 May in Cambridge, England at the age of 93. Educated at Manchester Grammar School and St John’s College, Cambridge, he held…
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From the Canadian Classical Bulletin, with the kind permission of Daniel M. Millette: Michel Janon, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Ottawa from 1986 to 1995, died on May 31st, in Marseilles, France, at the age of 72. He was educated in Algiers (History and Archaeology, 1964) and earned his doctorate at the…
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Image via Wikipedia ante diem vii idus quinctilias ludi Apollinares (day 4) 597 B.C. — a suggested date for Thales‘ eclipse (or so it was thought in several 19th century (and earlier) sources 118 A.D. — Hadrian finally arrives in Rome as emperor
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