November 8, 2012
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From the Greenwich Citizen: Grecian formula: Archeologist unravels the ancient hairdos of the Caryatids … we’ve mentioned Dr Schwab’s work with ancient coifs before: Caryatid (hair)Stylings … and here (with further links): Ancient Hairdressing
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Okay, this one was making the rounds of my twitterfeed yesterday, but I’m not going to say whence I got it because there’s something fishy going on … anyhoo, this was purportedly the cover of the New York Post yesterday: Outside of the obvious (to Classicists, at least) inconcinnity of the image (to which we…
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Not sure how I found this yesterday, but Kotaku has a very interesting photo of Japanese popstar Kyary Pamyu Pamyu: For fans of the ‘holding one’s hair to vomit’ look (which we’ve discussed in a Classical context as well), check this out: Both photos via the fine folks at Kotaku …
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quid (Dictionary.com … actually, this one isn’t Classical!) pervicacious (Wordsmith) Latinitweets: verb 1: habito , habitare, habitavi, habitatus => live http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) November 8, 2012
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ante diem vi idus novembres mundus patet — the mundus was a ritual pit which had a sort of vaulted cover on it. Three times a year the Romans removed this cover (August 24, Oct. 5 and November 8) at which time the gates of the underworld were considered to be opened and the manes…
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