September 18, 2012
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posted with permission: Horace’s Iambic Criticism: Casting Blame (Iambikê Poiêsis). By Timothy S. Johnson. Mnemosyne Supplement 334. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. Pp. xii + 314. Hardcover, €119.00/$163.00. ISBN 978-90-04-21523-8. Reviewed by Erika Zimmermann Damer, University of Richmond Although Horace’s Epodes were frequently dismissed by earlier generations as an uneven poetic collection of obscenity and…
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My spiders just dragged this one back from FSU: Naturally FSU will premiere their film, College Greek Athletic Meet, a collection of home videos of the past 17 years of the organizations’ re-enactment of the ancient Greek pentathlon. Tallahassee Naturally and Naturally FSU are both naturist organizations in Tallahassee, with aims of creating awareness of…
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If you’re wondering how the game turned out, head over to the KHL Medveščak Facebook page for assorted photos and videos. Yahoo Sports also has a nice selection of videos and photos: Here’s what hockey in a Roman amphitheatre looked like (Spoiler: It was awesome) (Yahoo Sports) CBS also has a couple of photos: Photos:…
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Plenty of problems with this one … from Novinite and FWIW: Bulgarian archaeologist and divers have discovered in Black Sea waters an antique vessel, dated from the 6th century B.C., which was used to prepare food. The find is the first such object to find its home at the National History Museum, NIM, the Bulgarian…
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In medias res of a lengthy article in the Henley Standard about a proposed hospital building site: […] An excavation 200m east of the hospital site found chalk foundations of a “substantial” rectangular Roman building and some Roman pottery. A Roman coin was found 180m north of the site. Mr Oram said: “The Roman settlement…
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