September 6, 2010
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From the New Zealand Herald: Millions of books have been thrown from the shelves and an acclaimed collection of Greek and Roman antiquities worth millions of dollars has been badly damaged at the University of Canterbury. Reports are emerging of varying degrees of damage to buildings and contents within some of the region’s schools and…
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ante diem viii idus septembres ludi Romani (day 2) 81 A.D. — martyrdom of Onesiphorus 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Faustus in Alexandria 1956 — death of Michael Ventris, who deciphered Linear B (the ancient script used by the Myceneans)
rogue classicism 