November 5, 2012

  • Owen Jarus – LiveScience’s guy-who-writes-stuff-in-our-purview – in addition to the piece on Hadrian’s Wall we mentioned a few days ago, has also done a feature on Carthage … worth a look …

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  • You’ve probably seen this already scrolling by in the various Blogosphere posts about it … to excerpt Phil Harland’s email: … users of the site can browse through hundreds of inscriptions (450 so far) involving guilds, immigrant groups, and other associations in the ancient Mediterranean. The user can browse by geography or by topics (including…

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  • Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews

    2012.11.08:  Richard Stoneman, Kyle Erickson, Ian Netton, The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East. Ancient Narrative supplementum, 15. 2012.11.07:  Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio, On Old Age: Approaching Death in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The History of Daily Life 2. 2012.11.06:  Averil Cameron, The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity 395-700 AD. Second edition. Routledge…

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  • Classical Words of the Day

    climacteric (Dictionary.com) gorgonize (Merriam-Webster) emulous (Wordsmith) pyromania (OED) Latinitweets: verb 4: advenio , advenire, adveni => arrive http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) November 5, 2012 forma: form, shape, beauty: noun. Example sentence:Forma linguae Latinae a multis laudatur.Translation:The beaut… http://t.co/zn40sd6u — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) November 5, 2012

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  • nonas novembres ludi Plebeii (day 2) — the major festival in honour of Jupiter continues

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