Daily Archives: July 30th, 2012

Also Seen: Horace, Odes, 1.9

The Guardian‘s ‘Poem of the Week’ is as mentioned above!

… interesting commentary on the translation …

Classical Words of the Day

Apologies for neglecting this feature the past few days … I’m in the process of cleaning up and organizing links etc. in Netvibes in anticipation of the demise of my iGoogle page in the near future. I still don’t have a proper update for y’all, but my spiders brought back a page from something called Wordnik which is featuring ten Greek sorts of words that have popped up because of some big shindig going on in London:

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iii kalendas sextilias

ante diem iii kalendas sextilias

  • ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 11)
  • after 101 B.C. — dedication of the Temple to “The Fortune of  this Day”  (Fortuna Huiusce Diei) and subsequent rites thereafter; presumably this is one of the temples vowed prior to the Battle of Vercellae
  • 69 A.D. — destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (Av 9)

Blogosphere ~ Orpheus the ancient source

Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Orpheus the ancient source.

Blogosphere ~ Who Were the Sea People?

History of the Ancient World: Who Were the Sea People?.

Blogosphere ~ The Status Of Women In Ancient Athens

History of the Ancient World: The Status Of Women In Ancient Athens.

Blogosphere ~ The death of Alexander the Great

History of the Ancient World: The death of Alexander the Great.

Blogosphere ~ Plague and theatre in ancient Athens

History of the Ancient World: Plague and theatre in ancient Athens.

Blogosphere ~ Roman Omens, Roman Audiences and Roman History

History of the Ancient World: Roman Omens, Roman Audiences and Roman History.

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