January 18, 2011
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Image via Wikipedia Interesting item from the Times of India: Coins are not only used as a mode of exchange but they also reflect heritage. Indian-Roman relations was one such area where coins played a major role in establishing and strengthening ties between two countries. At a special exhibition on Roman coins and other Roman…
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Hot on the heels of Adrian Murdoch’s podcast on the nutty emperor, and just a few weeks before we mark the anniversary of the nutty emperor’s assassination, comes nutty news from the Guardian (tip o’ the pileus to Tim Parkin, who first ‘broke’ the story on Facebook last night): The lost tomb of Caligula has…
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Seen on the Classicists list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): The Hellenistic Court Hosted by The Centre for the Study of the Hellenistic World (CSHW), School of History, Classics & Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh, 25th-27th February 2011. This conference aims to demonstrate the centrality…
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Seen on the Classicists list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): Postcolonial Latin American Adaptations of Greek and Roman Drama 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association January 5-8, 2012, Philadelphia, PA Organized by Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Saint Joseph’s University) Research on the reception of…
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ante diem xv kalendas februarias Ludi Palatini (day 2) — the theatrefest continues 52 B.C. — murder of Publius Clodius Pulcher near Bovillae 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Moseus 1898 — death of H.G. Liddell (Greek lexicographer and father of Alice-in-wonderland)
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