November 15, 2012
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A review article in the TLS of a number of tomes about motherhood in various ers includes, inter alia, a review of something in our purview … the salient bits: A recent collection of essays on motherhood and mothering in antiquity, Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome, reminds us that questions about what…
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posted with permission: REVIEW–DISCUSSION New Histories of Slaves and Freed The Cambridge World History of Slavery. Volume 1: The Ancient Mediterranean World. Edited by Keith Bradley and Paul Cartledge. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 620. Hardcover, £116.00/ $192.00. ISBN 978-0-521-84066-8. Slavery in the Late Roman World AD 275–425. By…
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lucubratory (Wordnik) Latinitweets: noun 3: amor , amoris, m => love http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) November 15, 2012 patria: homeland: noun. Example sentence:Roma est patria mea.Translation:Rome is my home country. http://t.co/zbm1j2AP — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) November 15, 2012 *limen, liminis* neuter noun – lintel, threshold #etymology of English adjective "liminal" – transitional;…
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ante diem xvii kalendas decembres ludi Plebeii (day 12) — the Jupiterfest goes on and on and on … 305 A.D. — martyrdom of Gurias 1907 — birth of Nicholas G.L. Hammond (The Genius of Alexander the Great, among others) [for the record, I don’t believe today is the day for the festival of Feronia,…
rogue classicism 