May 4, 2012
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Looks like another Classicist got drafted last weekend … an excerpt from the Boston Herald: […] The Dolphins need to do a better job keeping their quarterbacks up, so they took Stanford offensive tackle Jonathan Martin in the second round. They’ll need to coach up University of Miami defensive end Olivier Vernon, whose college production…
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Last summer we had some vague reports of Francesco D’Andria’s discovery of the tomb of St Philip in a Hellenistic/Roman necropolis in Hierapolis (Tomb of St Philip?) … today, Zenit has an interview with D’Andria which fleshes out some of the details … we begin our excerpt after some info on Philip’s background: […] ZENIT:…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Adrian Murdoch for alerting us to this health and safety issue (trip hazard, apparently) at a major temple find in Bonn: Archaeology students got a taste of the real thing during a digging lesson, when they stumbled upon what was this week confirmed to be a Roman temple – in…
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I still don’t think folks agree how to translate Star Wars into Latin, but here’s a couple of vids to mark the day … the first one’s been around for a while and the sound quality is a bit rough: … the second one has subtitles (they say they have an unsubtitled version, but I…
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ante diem iv nonas maias 11 B.C. — dedication of the Theatre of Marcellus ca. 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Florian in what would become Austria ca. 304 A.D. — martydom of Pelagia at Tarsus 1406 — death of Coluccio Salutati (humanist and proto-Classicist)
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