December 8, 2012
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Just cleaning out my emailbox a bit more and recalling an online discussion back in February in various fora (Twitter, Classics list, elsewhere) about images of ancient childbirth/midwives. It resulted in a nice blog post by Caroline Lawrence: Historical Detectives & Social Networking … and I just put together what I hope is an incipient…
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Latest headline in Classical Greek: Ταραχὴ ἐν τῇ Αἰγύπτῳ
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This is a different sort of ‘peril’ … they’re not talking about eliminating the department which includes Classics, but relocating it some 280 km away to a place of little reputation, for want of a better term. Here’s where you can sign the petition: Department of Philology – University of Patras: Keep the Department in…
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French and Italian archaeologists have located the site of the original port of Rome (i.e. Ostia), which has been much disputed over the years. The English coverage of this really doesn’t do the original press release from the CNRS justice, so to quickly summarize, they took core samples from a site near the Imperial Palace…
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anopisthograph (Dictionary.com) hypermnesia (Merriam-Webster) Latinitweets: adjective: validus , valida, validum => strong http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) December 8, 2012
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