July 29, 2012
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This one’s obviously in its very early stages, but we’ll mention it and see where it goes … tip o’ the pileus to Jim West (Have The Remains of Jews Killed by the Romans in Jerusalem in 70 a.d. Been Discovered?) who alerts us to Antonio Lombatti’s post (Scheletri del massacro del Monte del Tempio?)…
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Dr Bolchazy (a proto rogueclassicist) passed away yesterday; funeral info: LADISLAUS J. BOLCHAZY Ph.D.
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posted with permission: Llewelyn Morgan, Musa Pedestris: Metre and Meaning in Roman Verse. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. x + 412. £78.00/$130.00. ISBN 978-0-19-955418-8. Reviewed by John Henkel, Georgetown College This ambitious book aims to convince Latinists that meter is not just a category for formal analysis, but an important constituent…
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Intro: as I wade through my mailbox, I note tons of things which I have put in my Explorator newsletter but which never seem to make it to rogueclassicism for hecticity reasons; accordingly, I think I’ll resume posting the Classics section every Sunday … for daily readers of rogueclassicism, there will be many duplicates, but…
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ante diem iv kalendas sextilias ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 10) 67 A.D./C.E. — fighting in Jerusalem between pro-surrender-to-the-Romans groups and their counterparts; the former set fire to some food supplies which apparently contributed to the fall of the city three years later (!) (need to track this one down) ca. 260 — martyrdom of Lucilla…
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