May 30, 2012

  • … or at least guys who like Classics and major social media? Check out this incipit of a piece from Bloomberg: In Russia, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces stiff competition for the role of number one news-making internet wunderkind. His name is Pavel Durov. Durov, 27, is the founder and CEO of VKontakte (“In Contact”),…

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  • Tip o’ the pileus to June Samaras who mentioned this on the Classics list … I’ll have to listen to it later:

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  • 2012.05.50:  Emanuela Zanda, Fighting Hydra-like Luxury: Sumptuary Regulation in the Roman Republic. 2012.05.49:  Frank Scheppers, The Colon Hypothesis: Word Order, Discourse Segmentation and Discourse Coherence in Ancient Greek 2012.05.48:  Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Luigi Lehnus, Susan Stephens, Brill’s Companion to Callimachus. Brill’s companions in classical studies. 2012.05.47:  Christine Hamdoune, Vie, mort et poésie dans l’Afrique romaine: d’après…

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  • Slow day … eidos (Worthless Word for the Day) Latin: rogare: to ask (for): verb. Example sentence:Qui vult dare parva non debet magna rogare.Translation:He who wishe… http://t.co/0ZEuxwuM — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) May 30, 2012

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  • ante diem iii kalendas junias 339 A.D. — death of Eusebius

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