April 29, 2011
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Via the Past Preservers/Ancient World Bloggers Group … an interesting iPhone app project type thing which a Classics type could probably do a really good job with: Ancient World Bloggers Group (AWBG): Historical tours writers needed for the iPhone.
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From a Penn State press release sort of thing: Yale University’s famous motto is Lux et Veritas, Latin for “light and truth” while Princeton’s crest reads Dei Sub Numine Viget (“Under God’s power she flourishes”). The University of Pennsylvania based its cautionary motto — Sine Moribus Vanae or “Letters without morals are useless” — on…
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Brief/vague item from eKathimerini: Ancient artifacts have been stolen from the Elefsina archaeological site west of Athens, the Culture Ministry said on Friday. The theft took place on the night of April 15, according to the ministry. No further details were given on the orders of the police. The site is one of Greece’s most…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Francesca Tronchin for finding this one … from ANSA: An ancient ship has emerged from the ground at the Imperial Roman port of Ostia in a find Culture Minister Giancarlo Galan said “gives you goose bumps”. An 11-metre section of one of the ship’s sides has so far been discovered,…
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ante diem iii kalendas maias ludi Florales … a.k.a. Floralia (day 3) — a festival originally ordered in response to an interpretation of the Sybilline books in 238 B.C., it fell into desuetude only to be revived in 173 B.C.; it was a general festival of drinking and other merriment in honour of Flora, who…
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