January 24, 2011

  • Not a bad analysis from Foreign Policy … This week on Thucydides Abuse Watch | Daniel W. Drezner. … it’s worth clicking on the internal links in the piece as well …  

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  • Oxford DNB: Hadrian

    Tip o’ the pileus to Mata Kimasitayo on the Classics list for alerting us to Hadrian’s turn in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Oxford DNB: Lives of the week – Hadrian. If you visit rogueclassicism after January 24, you probably have to access it via here (for a week … then it will disappear)…

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  • Emperors of Rome: Claudius

    Adrian Murdoch’s podcast series continues: Emperors of Rome: Claudius.  

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  • ante diem xi kalendas februarias Ludi Palatini (day 4) Sementivae or Paganalia (day 1) — Sementivae was a festival of sowing which was actually a moveable feast (although I’m not sure of the moveability criteria; I’m guessing that the first day falls between January 24 and 26). By Ovid’s time it appears to have been…

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