March 10, 2011
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From Jay Norlinger’s Impromptus column at NRO: Have you ever been so excited by a teacher — by listening to him, by being in his classroom — that you could hardly pay attention? I was talking to a friend of mine who went to Harvard College in the 1950s, I believe. His Greek-history professor was…
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A couple of years ago, Simon James presented a very interesting paper at the AIA meeting suggesting the use of ‘chemical warfare’ at Dura Europos in the third century A.D. . At the time, the paper received a pile of coverage and, of course, we dutifully blogged it, so we won’t repeat that aspect. What’s…
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ante diem vi idus martias Festival of Mars (day 10) … 241 B.C. — Romans are victorious against the Carthaginians in the naval battle of Aegusa, bringing the First Punic War to an end 15 A.D. — Tiberius becomes pontifex maximus ca. 172 A.D. — martyrdom of Alexander in Phrygia ca. 258 A.D. — martyrdom…
rogue classicism 