December 8, 2011

Yesterday way semi-confusing for me … on the one hand, there was this great piece in the Guardian (one of their ‘subject profiles’): What will I learn? A degree in the classics will offer you the chance to delve into the ancient past to study the language, history, culture and literature of the two civilisations…

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ante diem vi idus decembres Rites in honour of Tiberinus and Gaia — not a lot is known about these rites; Tiberinus had a temple on the Tiber island and presided over the Tiber (of course); Gaia seems to have originally given the Campus Martius (a.k.a. Campus Tiberinus) to the Roman people. 65 B.C. —…

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