January 5, 2013
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Nice little video from Rome Reports:
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This one’s just starting to make the rounds and likely won’t get too much attention. CNN’s Belief Blog has an update of sorts on the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife thing, especially as regards the testing, which, of course, we all await with bated breath. Inter alia: […] A dealer took the fragment to King for…
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Wading through another strange item from Greek Reporter (Australia Urged To Promote Greek Language) I was about to hit the ‘delete’ button when my caerulean gaze landed upon this sentence: Australians need to once more think of themselves as Nietzsche’s charioteers, because Greek really matters. … a little poking around located the origin of this…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Dr Tronchin for giving us our morning smile by alerting us to this tumblr thing: what should we call me classics … which anyone who has sat in a Latin or Greek (or even Classics) course can probably identify with! Enjoy!
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nonae januariae ludi compitales — day three of a moveable festival which might occur anytime between Saturnalia and January 5. It was largely a rural occasion involving woollen dolls being made to represent each free member of the household (simple woollen balls would be used to represent slaves) being hung up on the eve of…