August 17, 2012

  • d.m. Natalie Kampen

    From the Providence Journal [thanks to Dr. Lisa Trentin]: KAMPEN, DR. NATALIE (TALLY) BOYMEL a pioneering feminist scholar and teacher of Roman Art History and Gender Studies, died on August 12, 2012 at home in Wakefield, Rhode Island. She was 68. Kampen taught graduate courses on the ancient world at Columbia University and undergraduate courses…

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  • Ancient Greek Mythbusters

    I came across this one a while ago but didn’t post it for some reason … it’s a bit shaky and seems to end abruptly, but we Classicists are used to that sort of thing:

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  • ante diem xvi kalendas septembres ¶   Portunalia — a festival in honour of the Roman god of harbours ¶  rites in honour of Janus at the Theatre of Marcellus ¶  ca 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Myron ¶  ca 270 A.D. — martyrdom of Paul and Juliana

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  • Blogosphere ~ Roman Names

    Latin for Addicts: Roman Names.

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  • History of the Ancient World: Human labor and harbor capacity at Rome.   [they’ve mixed up author and thesis advisor on this one]

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