June 16, 2011

  • Rather peripheral, but perhaps of interest to readers of rogueclassicism … some academics have actually written (and have had published) a paper analyzing 700+ brain injuries in the Asterix comic series … here’s a bit from the middle of the Telegraph coverage:  […] The main characters “thump” Romans, pirates and Goths but a “detailed analysis…

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  • A very nice video report from Rome Reports: … amazing … need more reports like this.

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  • ante diem xvi kalendas quinctilias 212 A.D. — martyrdom of Ferreolus and Ferrutio 1716 — Alexander Pope’s translation of the Iliad is published 1813 — birth of Otto Jahn (archaeologist and philologist) 1937 — birth of Erich Segal (Classicist, known to Classicists for his work on ancient comedy; known to the rest of the world…

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