February 9, 2013
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Seen on the Classics list: The Role of "Performance" in Late Antiquity Organizer: Ralph Mathisen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity The 2014 panel sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association, to be held in Jan. 2-5 in Chicago, will…
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seen on various lists: Call for papers: New member-organized session at the ASOR 2013 annual meeting, november 20-23 Sinews of Empire: Networks in the Roman Near East Most of the Near East was under Roman rule for almost seven centuries, representing the longest period of political stability in the history of the region. Since the…
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In her latest post marking the New York Review of Books’ fiftieth anniversary, Mary Beard reminisces and inter alia mentions something which should be part of our collective mission statement (do universities still have those): “if we were to amputate the classics from the modern world, it would mean more than closing down some university…
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Not often that something from the Biblical Archaeology Society has a Classics connection, but this one’s a good read: Charles Fellows in Aphrodisias
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irrefrangible (dictionary.com) pogonotomy (OED) Latinitweets: pronoun: quidam , quaedam, quoddam => one, a certain, some http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) February 9, 2013 *eligo, eligere, elegi, electus* – to choose #etymology of English noun "election" — Latin Vocabulary (@latinwordaday) February 7, 2013 topper adv. contr. from toto opere, with all diligence, speedily, forthwith…
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