October 23, 2012
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It’s that time of year again for the school-set to set reed to tablet and start writing a bit of ancient fiction in the manner of Caroline Lawrence with the goal of winning the coveted Golden Sponge Stick! Details at CL’s Roman Mysteries blog: Golden Sponge-Stick Comp 2012!
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posted with permission: Aristotle Poetics: Editio maior of the Greek text with historical introduction and philological commentaries. By Leonardo Tarán and Dimitri Gutas. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. Pp. viii + 538. Hardcover, €162.00/US$226.00. ISBN 978-90-04-21740-9. Reviewed by Andrew Ford, Princeton University This editio maior of the Poetics gives a moderately different text from that…
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Some nice hype from UCincy on Susan Prince’s work with Antisthenes: Are cynics and happiness mutually exclusive? For modern cynics, perhaps. But for the ancient Cynics, not necessarily. Research by the University of Cincinnati’s Susan Prince shows that despite the historical perception of the ancient Cynics as harsh, street-corner prophets relentlessly condemning all passersby and…
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The concluding bit of an item in Slate: […] In his famous manifesto on architecture, the Roman writer Vitruvius propagated an error about the Acropolis caryatids: they depict, he claimed, the humiliated and enslaved matrons of Caryae, punished by fellow Greeks because of its treacherous defection to the Persians. But it is unlikely that the…
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parturient (Dictionary.com) Hibernian (Wordsmith) Latinitweets: adverb: itaque , indeclinable => and so, therefore http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) October 23, 2012 femina: woman: noun. Example sentence:Formam feminarum semper laudant.Translation:They always praise the beauty … http://t.co/SF9T5VoV — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) October 23, 2012
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