January 10, 2013
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More from the AIA shindig (and Stephanie Pappas, who clearly is making a name for herself in terms of coverage of archaeology of late): A mysterious “snake goddess” painted on terracotta and discovered in Athens may actually be Demeter, the Greek goddess of the harvest. Once linked to the worship of the dead, the goddess…
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Over at io9 there’s a (tongue-in-cheek) rant appealing for a return to the Greek pantheon, for various reasons … it sparked a bit of discussion on the Classics list, so you might want to check it out: Can we bring the Greek Gods back, please?
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… and here’s yet another item from the AIA (and Stephanie Pappas) and FWIW I believe that during the activities last week, Janet Stephens’ poster on this was making the rounds on Twitter — perhaps a hint to folks to ‘put this stuff out there’. In any event, once again, the incipit: For the first…
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Wow … the AIA shindig is getting some good press coverage (primarily by Stephanie Pappas of LiveScience) … the latest coverage relates to the work of Michael MacKinnon (UWinnipeg) who has excavated a pile of cattle bones — a bit out of our period — from a theatre in Corinth. Here’s the incipit: A metric…
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pseudoclassic (Dictionary.com) Apollonian (Merriam Webster) aurorean (Wordsmith) theic (Wordnik) Latinitweets: noun 2: caelum , caeli, n => sky, heaven http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) January 10, 2013 nolle: to not wish, to be unwilling: verb. Example sentence:Ego nolo Caesar esse.Translation:I do not wish to be… http://t.co/Dy9mAiZJ — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) January 10, 2013
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