August 2010
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Excerpts from a lengthy article in Bloomberg, which every high school Latin teacher will, no doubt, be posting on their door/bulletin board within seconds of reading it: When Lena Barsky picked up her first Latin text in 2004, she couldn’t have known that memorizing the phrase “canes sunt in via” (“the dogs are in the…
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As usual, the day I’m away from my laptop some major news manages to accumulate in mailboxes, twitterfeeds, and on Facebook. At this point, the ‘best’ coverage (note the scare quotes) of this story comes from the Telegraph; skipping the intro bit: Nearly 3,000 years after Odysseus returned from his journey, the team from the…
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ante diem viii kalendas septembres Opiconsivia — rites in honour of Ops, an old Italian earth deity and usually considered the spouse of Consus 79 A.D. — death of Pliny the Elder in the wake of the eruption at Pompeii 325 A.D. — Council of Nicaea comes to an end, having come up with the…
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Image via Wikipedia ante diem ix kalendas septembres rites in honour of Luna at the Graecostasis mundus patet — the mundus was a ritual pit which had a sort of vaulted cover on it. Three times a year the Romans removed this cover (August 24, Oct. 5 and November eighth) at which time the gates…
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The July/August issue of Biblical Archaeology Review has a very interesting article by Herschel Shanks about Jewish oracles relating to the destruction of Pompeii. A useful summary can be found in the Jerusalem Post, post alia: […] Shanks recently told The Jerusalem Post that the idea to examine a connection between the two events came…
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