September 8, 2011
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From a University of Bristol press release: A team of runners, sponsored by the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition at the University of Bristol, will be running the Bristol Half Marathon this Sunday [11 September] to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary year of the very first marathon. As well as increasing awareness of…
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From a Standford University Press release: The dusky grouper has been a popular target for Mediterranean fishermen since prehistoric times – their bones have been found in human settlements dating back more than 100,000 years. It’s a slow growing, flavorful and, with the advent of modern sport fishing, endangered species. In an effort to reverse…
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https://twitter.com/#!/garycorby/status/111579149864402945 For folks who don’t recognize the name, Michael Hart was the guy who set up Project Gutenberg, which was one of the first efforts to make out-of-copyright versions of various texts available in the early days of the interwebs. A great number of those texts, of course, were Classics in our sense of the…
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Quiet day around the Classical blogosphere yesterday: Round-Up: September 7 September 7, 2011 laura-gibbs@ou.edu (Laura Gibbs) Guest post for Three Pipe Problem! September 7, 2011 lizgloyn Guess Who September 7, 2011 (N.S. Gill) On This Day in Ancient History – The Birth of Emperor Vespasian’s Predecessor September 7, 2011 (N.S. Gill) Bibliographies: Late Roman Society…
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ante diem vi idus septembres ludi Romani (day 4) ca 15 B.C. — traditional date of the birth of Mary, mother of Jesus
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