October 20, 2011
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Seen on the Classicists list: Many Faces of a Hellenistic King A multi-disciplinary conference on Hellenistic Kingship Department of Archaeology – Durham University In association with the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East (CAMNE) & The Institute of Advanced Studies 11th-12th November 2011 Registeration for attendance at the conference…
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… or Up Over, depending on your geographical bias. Whatever the case, tip o’ the pileus to Geoffrey Fishburn for passing along this one from the Sydney Morning Herald: IT’S the beginning of the end for 72,391 students who begin their HSC exams today, with a portion of them putting pen to paper this morning…
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Tip o’ the pileus to a certain fellow blogger for passing along this rather shocking/sad/disturbing account of what’s happening to Plato’s Academy and cultural sector in general … from Bloomberg: Plato doesn’t live here anymore. A pack of feral cats chases the rodents that run past the Gypsy squatters who inhabit the bleak 32-acre Athens…
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Another interesting day in the Classical blogosphere: Qui Scribit, Bis Legit October 19, 2011 Michael Gilleland 6th Roman Bioarchaeology Carnival October 19, 2011 Kristina Killgrove Latin in the news October 19, 2011 jm Ancient Road Systems October 19, 2011 (N.S. Gill) Cicero in Verrem October 19, 2011 arltblogger 6th Roman Bioarchaeology Carnival October 19, 2011…
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ante diem xiii kalendas novembres 480 B.C. — Battle of Salamis (one reckoning; seems a bit late) 127 A.D. — ludi votivi decennales pro salute Augusti c. 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Maximus of Aquila 1524 — death of Thomas Linacre … “the best Greek and Latin scholar of his age” 1952 — death of…
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