December 7, 2012
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Almost missed this one as something for rogueclassicism (as opposed to the ANE section of Explorator) … from the Gazzetta del Sud: Italian police on Thursday recovered an antique Egyptian sphinx sculpture that was about to be exported out of Italy. The sphinx, recovered near an Etruscan necropolis, measures 120 x 60 cm and is…
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posted with permission: Friendship and Empire: Roman Diplomacy and Imperialism in the Middle Republic (353–146 BC). By Paul J. Burton. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 393. Hardcover, £65.00/$110.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19000-8. Reviewed by Nathan Rosenstein, The Ohio State University William Harris’ War and Imperialism in Republican Rome (1979) followed shortly…
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From an FSU press release: Call it a toast to the past. A Florida State University classics professor whose decades of archaeological work on a remote hilltop in Italy have dramatically increased understanding of the ancient Etruscan culture is celebrating yet another find. This time around it’s not the usual shards of pottery and vessels,…
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dubious (Wordsmith) librocubicularist (Wordnik) Expulsion (Newswordy) Latinitweets verb 3: rego , regere, rexi, rectus => rule http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) December 7, 2012 ibi: there: adverb. Example sentence:Ubi apes, ibi mel.Translation:Where bees are, there is honey. http://t.co/45m9mBwy — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) December 7, 2012
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ante diem vii idus decembres 43 B.C. — death of Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) as he half-heartedly fled the proscription of Marcus Antonius et al. 1985 — death of Robert Graves (I Claudius, among others)
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