September 2010
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Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) University of Reading Department of Classics Postgraduate Latin Summer School 2011 Applications are invited for the Postgraduate Summer School in Latin hosted by the Department of Classics, University of Reading, UK. The Summer School will run 18 July-19…
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Seen on various lists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Position Description: The Department of the Classics in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a tenured position at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor in the area of Latin literature, beginning 16 August…
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Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Practitioners’ Voices Issue 2 ‘Translation, Rewriting and Staging: Scholarship and Creativity in the Reception of Greek and Roman Poetry and Drama’ is now available at http://www2.open.ac.uk/practitioners This edition of Practitioners’ Voices publishes interviews with poets, translators and theatre…
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ante diem viii kalendas octobres 15 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Vitellius (?)
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ante diem ix kalendas octobres rites in honour of Latona at the Theatre of Marcellus Mercatus — those cupboards must have been really empty! 484 B.C. — Birth of Euripides (?) 480 B.C. — Athenian naval forces under Themistocles defeat Xerxes’ Persian force in the narrows of Salamis (one reckoning) 63 B.C. — birth of Octavius, the future…