January 9, 2013
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posted with permission: Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture. By Jennifer Trimble. Greek Culture in the Roman World. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 486. Hardcover, £79.00/$125.00. ISBN 978-0-521-82515-3. Reviewed by Antony Augoustakis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jennifer Trimble has produced a compelling study of…
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Another bit of coverage from the AIA shindig … from the Daily Mail: Baby bones found scattered on the ground at a seventh century workshop have hinted at an unexpected callousness towards child deaths among Romans. Two bones and skull fragment were found lying on the floor among the remains of pigs, goats and sheep.…
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from Ynet: Distinguished historian Professor Zvi Yavetz, who was the 1990 Israel Prize for Humanities laureate, died Tuesday. He was 88-years-old. Yavetz, who co-founded the Tel Aviv University, was a world renowned historian, and received honorary doctorates from various universities worldwide. Born in 1925 in Chernovitz, now in southwestern Ukraine, he lost most of his…
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pseudomorph (Dictionary.com) conterminous (Wordsmith) drupe (Wordnik) Latinitweets: pronoun: vester , vestra, vestrum => your (plural), yours http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) January 9, 2013 mutare: to change, to alter, to exchange: verb. Example sentence:Vis belli vitam eius paucis horis mutavit.Trans… http://t.co/yDOg8wxM — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) January 9, 2013
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ante diem v idus januarias Agonalia — one of four dies agonales during which the Rex Sacrorum would sacrifice a ram in the Regia; on this occasion apparently in honour of Janus. 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Felix and companions in Africa 302 A.D. — martyrdom of Julian and companions at Antioch c. 303 A.D.…
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