January 12, 2012
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Seen on the Classicists list: Locating Popular Culture in the Ancient World School of History, Classics and Archaeology University of Edinburgh, 4-6th July 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS: REMINDER While the representation of the ancient world in modern popular culture has received a great deal of scholarly attention in recent years, ancient popular culture has generally…
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Who wouldn’t want to live above the Theatre of Marcellus … from the Telegraph: Palazzo Orsini, in the centre of Rome, Italy, is being sold by the family of Iris Origo, whose book about her wartime experiences in Tuscany, ‘War in the Val’D’Orcia, an Italian War Diary’, is regarded as a classic. The asking price…
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A Roman sarcophagus from 250-260 AD depicting the labors of Hercules in the Archaeological Museum, Konya. via Roman Sarcophagus | Flickr . … this one’s really nice.
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2012.01.14: Mario Geymonat, The Great Archimedes. 2012.01.13: Valeria Maria Patimo, La Pro Cluentio di Cicerone: introduzione e commento dei §§ 1 – 81. Studia classica et mediaevalia, Bd 1. 2012.01.12: Peter Jones, Aeneid I and II. Cambridge Intermediate Latin Readers. 2012.01.11: James I. Porter, The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and…
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pridie idus januarias 49 B.C. — Caesar crosses the Rubicon (yet another suggestion). c. 230 A.D. — martyrdom of Tatiana in Rome c. 302 A.D. — martyrdom of Arcadius in Mauretania
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