August 2, 2011
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The fine folks at Classics Confidential talk to Dr Saskia Roselaar about Roman marching drills (I’m really finding these ‘poster session’ things interesting; they didn’t exist in our discipline back when I was a grad student):
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Sabine Beckmann sent a missive to the Classics list alerting folks to the discovery of a Linear A seal at the peak sanctuary at Vrysinas (there’s a number of spellings for that one). The only coverage seems to be in Greek (eNet) and doesn’t give much detail (filtered through Google Translate), but does have a…
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Excerpt of an item from Inside Higher Education (in medias res) … the Thomas mentioned is Richard Thomas (and for the record, I don’t buy the confusion about ‘fortune favours the bold’ at the beginning): But Thomas and his fellow trustees of the Loeb Classical Library — a 515-volume series of essential Latin and Greek…
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ante diem iv nonas sextilias 338 B.C. — Death of Archidamus III (King of Sparta) 216 B.C. — Hannibal inflicts a massive defeat on Roman forces at Cannae (possible date) 86 B.C. — Sulla defeats Mithridates at Chaeronea (possible date) 49 B.C. — Julius Caesar defeats Afranius and Petreius (legates of Pompey) at Ilerda 47…
rogue classicism 