October 5, 2012
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Just to keep the pot stirring, this item appeared at Birmingham UCU: Greek, Latin and Ancient History have been taught at Birmingham since the foundation of the University in 1900 and are now under threat from dangerously short-sighted management practices. Yet, lecturers at UoB are now prevented by a bizarre confidentiality clause from bringing to…
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From Ancient Warfare Magazine: Before Rome Ruled Italy
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Various spins of this news bouncing around the interwebs … here’s the AFP version: A new search has begun at a Greek island where an ancient device known as the world’s “oldest computer” was found over a century ago, an official said, adding that other discoveries were possible. Archaeologists this week returned to Antikythera, the…
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Yesterday my mailbox metaphorically ‘dinged’ and what was in it was an item from a couple of years ago which was in one of the 2008 issues of Biblical Archaeology Review. It claims that a wall painting in the House of the Physician at Pompeii depicts Solomon, Socrates, and Aristotle sitting in judgement, yadda yadda,…
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hirtellous (Dictionary.com) morphean (Wordsmith) refocillation (Worthless) requietory (OED) glabella (Wordnik) Latinitweets: preposition: inter , + accusative => among, between http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) October 4, 2012 ratio: reason: noun. Example sentence:Nihil sine ratione agunt.Translation:They do nothing without reason. http://t.co/niFUlUJJ — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) October 5, 2012
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