July 24, 2012
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So my kid has a test in Oedipus Rex tomorrow and they haven’t watched a movie version yet (ran out of time), so naturally I go looking for one and came up with this gem from 1968 … Christopher Plummer as Oedipus! Orson Welles as Teiresias! Donald Sutherland is in the chorus!!! The picture quality…
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incognito (Wordsmith) capitulate (OED) organoleptic (Worthless Word for the Day) Latinitweets: verb 2: doceo , docere, docui, doctus => teach http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) July 24, 2012 noun 1: domina , dominae, f => mistress http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) July 24, 2012 incipere: to begin: verb. Example sentence:Semper magno…
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ante diem ix kalendas sextilias ¶ ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 5) ¶ 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome continues (day 7) ¶ 69 A.D. — sacking of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (?) ¶ 133 A.D. — the last holdout of the Bar Kochba Revolt — Betar — fell to the Romans (?)…
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Stuff You Missed in History Class: The First Olympics, Revisited. [I haven’t had a chance to listen to this one yet; quality of these varies from episode to episode]
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History of the Ancient World: Olympic renascences: how democratic were the Ancient Olympics?.
rogue classicism 