Triste: John F. Healy
Announcement seen on the Classicists list:
I regret to inform members of this list that Professor John F. Healy has recently passed away.
… we’ll await a formal obituary …
Classical Words of the Day
Just a little something from Twitter today:
brevior: shorter, smaller, too short: adjective. Example sentence:Vita eius erat brevior.Translation:His life wa… bit.ly/OUbM8F—
Latin Language (@latinlanguage) June 16, 2012
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xvi kalendas quinctilias
212 A.D. — martyrdom of Ferreolus and Ferrutio (not sure you can speak of ‘French’ in 212 A.D. …)
1716 — Alexander Pope’s translation of the Iliad is published
1813 — birth of Otto Jahn (archaeologist and philologist)
1937 — birth of Erich Segal (Classicist, known to Classicists for his work on ancient comedy; known to the rest of the world as the author of Love Story)
… Happy Bloomsday
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