October 3, 2012

  • seen on the Classicists list: Ancient History Research Seminars, 2012-13 School of History, Archaeology and Religion Cardiff University Venue: Humanities Building, Cardiff University, Colum Drive, Cardiff CF10 3EU All seminars and lectures take place at 5.10pm Autumn Semester 8th October, room 4.45 Dr Kyle Erickson, University of Wales Trinity Saint David Playing with the Gods:…

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  • Owen Cramer mentioned this article in UChicago Magazine yesterday on the Classics list … here’s the incipit: For Mark Eleveld, MLA’10, and Ron Maruszak, MLA’10, the realization was inescapable: Homer, the blind bard, ancient Greece’s greatest poet, whose epics on the Trojan War and its aftermath founded the Western canon and influenced 3,000 years of…

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  • Classical Words of the Day

    placate (Merriam Webster) terpsichorean (Wordsmith) Latinitweets: verb irregular: eo , ire, i(v)i => go http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) October 3, 2012 homo: person: noun. Example sentence:Non est locus istis hominibus in hac terra.Translation:There is no place fo… http://t.co/z4OW0j0O — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) October 3, 2012

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  • ante diem v nonas octobres ludi Augustales scaenici (day 1 — from 19-23 A.D.) — a festival in honour of Augustus involving primarily mime and pantomime theatrical displays

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  • PaleoJudaica.com: GJW: Goodacre sums up.

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