January 8, 2013
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Tip o’ the pileus to Martin Conde, who alerted us to a story in la Reppublica relating the discovery of the villa of Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus — Ovid’s patron — and statuary from the Niobe story which is being connected to Ovid. I managed to track down an English summary in Gazzetta del Sud:…
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posted with permission: Reviewed work(s): Gerard Passannante. The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. 250 pp. $45. ISBN: 978–0–226–64849–1. Jonathan Goldberg Emory University The Lucretian Renaissance is a somewhat elusive book, and this is the source of much of its strength. Eschewing Poggio Bracciolini’s rediscovery of…
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In the interests of keeping online Latin teaching alive and well: If you teach at a college/university, or know of one, that offers Latin classes online, would you please let me know off-list? UGA is, at least for the immediate future, discontinuing its online Latin offerings, and, having been involved in distance education for a…
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Latest from our friends at YLE: Oratio praesidentis Niinistö Sauli Niinisto, praesidens rei publicae Finniae, Kalendis Ianuariis suam primam incipientis anni orationem nationi habuit. In prima eius parte legatos parlamentares et ministros regiminis ad consilia audacia capienda hortatus est. Nisi id fecissent, quaestiones ad senescendum et aes alienum conflandum pertinentes solvi non posse. Addidit…
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From a University of Southampton press release: Archaeologists from the University of Southampton studying a Neolithic archaeological site in central Greece have helped unearth over 300 clay figurines, one of the highest density for such finds in south-eastern Europe. The Southampton team, working in collaboration with the Greek Archaeological Service and the British School at…
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