August 18, 2012

  • 2012.08.25:  Steven H. Wander, The Joshua Roll. 2012.08.24:  Jason Ehrenkrook, Sculpting idolatry in Flavian Rome: (An)Iconic Rhetoric in the Writings of Flavius Josephus. Early Judaism and its literature, 33. 2012.08.23:  Andrew Nichols, Ctesias. On India, and Fragments of His Minor Works. 2012.08.22:  Carl Deroux, Corolla Epigraphica: hommages au professeur Yves Burnand (2 vols.). Collection Latomus,…

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  • Vatican Obelisk

    Some interesting stuff in this one … didn’t know about the Julius Caesar ‘sphere’:

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  • ante diem xv kalendas septembres ¶   29 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Divus Julius (and associated rites thereafter) ¶  2nd century A.D. — martyrdom of Florus and Laurus in Illyria ¶  328 A.D. — death of Helena, mother of Constantine

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  • Classics Daily: “Will our family ever desist from madness?”.

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